Lessons from the den
March 26, 2007
Lessons from the den
Jodi Lundmark
3/26/2007 10:34:50 AM
For everyone who says you can’t learn anything from television, business advisor and online host for the hit CBC show Dragon’s Den Sean Wise will tell you differently.
Wise is stopping in Thunder Bay at the Italian Cultural Centre on Algoma St. on March 29 as part of a four city northern tour to give entrepreneurs some Lessons from the Dragon’s Den.
Just recently picked up for a second season, The Dragon’s Den is a reality television show where entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to five very successful business leaders (the dragons), all of whom have worked their own way to success.
“Every pitch in the television show whether good, bad or indifferent is a lesson that an entrepreneur in the audience can learn,” said Wise.
Some of the lessons Wise will be telling Thunder Bay’s business leaders of tomorrow are what’s fundable, what is good presentation methodology and what not to do, and what the dragons are looking for in deals.
Wise said the reason for the northern tour is because entrepreneurs are found from coast-to-coast.
“There are entrepreneurs in every nook and cranny and we don’t want to limit ourselves,” he said.
With Northern Ontario struggling economically right now, Wise said it will force other opportunities to grow.
“One person’s struggle is another person’s opportunity. If everything was going extremely well, what would be the point of diversifying away from the things that are successful?”
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