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This is what happens if you make a bet and lose. Note to self: bring towels to the next Enterprize meeting...

Enterprize 2008

Take a look at this year's previous Enterprize conference!

Visit Enterprize at Business Week!

Enterprize will be at Business week so make sure to check our booth out. We'll be ready to answer any questions you may have, and yes, our key-chain bottle openers will be making an encore appearance. But wait, there's more! If our mere presence isn't enough to convince you to visit Business week (which it should), you could also do the following:

Jumpstart your ambitions! September 8th through 12th is Business Week! Come out from 11:00am to 3:00pm every day, outside Henry Angus, to learn about the many ways you can get involved. Come visit club booths and participate in prize giveaways and events! Here is just a sample of what you will see everyday:

MONDAY:
The Beat On-site Live Broadcast. Come out and you might win a trip for 4 to Puerto Vallarta!
Deloitte Signature BBQ and Carnival. FREE FOOD and fun courtesy of Deloitte.

TUESDAY:
Giant Iron Man Inflatable Activity
Tug O’ War against Science! Rounds start at 12:05 so be there and BRING IT. (there’s a trophee)

WEDNESDAY
BBQ: Food is fifty cents. FIFTY CENTS!
Wild Western Water Shootout: Bring a bathing suit and water guns!

THURSDAY
Gold’s Gym Ultimate Challenge
Metrolyrics.com Blackout volleyball Night Event at Mahony’s. Tickets are 10 dollars and will be sold at the Business Week booth!

FRIDAY
Fear Factor Challenge (Who has a strong stomach?)
And a chance to win Business Week shotglasses and prizes from Gold’s Gym including a VIP Membership valued at over 800 dollars!

Business Week 2008

New Microsoft Commercial

So as you guys may or may not have heard, Microsoft is paying Jerry Seinfeld $10 million dollars to "spruce up" their ad campaigns. Now for some reason or another, they also decided to use Bill Gates (to cut costs...? ...Acting abilities? ...I got nothing). Anyways, check it out:

8 Ideas from Donald Trump to make it Big - from YoungEntrepreneur.com

Though I don't think I could ever forgive him for introducing the world to the god awfulness of Omarosa, Donald Trump's success as a business mogul is undeniable. It then comes to no surprise that others are trying to emulate his formula for success. YoungEntrepreneur.com has compiled a list of 8 strategies that they think you should steal from the Donald. Thankfully, his hair-styling secrets are not included as a strategy.

1. Never Back Down

“I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough, Just go get them. You can’t be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens. My experience is that if you’re fighting for something you believe in – even if it means alienating some people along the way – things usually work out for the best in the end. ”

2. Be A Tough Negotiator

“My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after. Sometimes I settle for less than I sought, but in most cases I still end up with what I want.”

3. Do What You Love

“The most important thing in life is to love what you’re dong, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it. Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. Without passion, you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing.”

4. Think Big

“I like thinking big. I always have. If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. Most people think small because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.”

5. Be Different

“Most of my people at first favoured putting paintings on the wall. To me that was old-fashioned, unoriginal, and just not very exciting. As it turned out, the waterfall proved to be an art form in itself, almost a sculptured wall. And it attracts far more attention than we’d have gotten if we’d put up even some very wonderful art. Sometimes it pays to be a little wild.”

6. Promote Yourself

“We took our strengths and promoted them to the skies. From day one, we set out to sell Trump Tower not just as a beautiful building in a great location but as an event. If you want to sell a car and you spend five dollars to wash and polish it and then apply a little extra elbow grease, suddenly you find you can charge an extra four hundred dollars, and get it. If you don’t tell people about your success, they probably won’t know about it. ”

7. Trust Your Gut

“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. I’m a great believer in asking everyone for an opinion before I make a decision. I ask I ask I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that’s when I make a decision. I have learned much more from conducting my own random surveys than I could ever have learned from the greatest of consulting firms. It pays to trust your instincts.”

8. Be Great

“Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at tennis than Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova, but they will never lift a club or swing a racket and therefore will never find out how great they could have been. Instead, they’ll be content to sit and watch stars perform on television. What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”

Meet YoungEntrepreneur.com co-founder Adam Toren at this year's BlogWorld 2008!Evan CarmichaelYoungEntrepreneur.com Blog Manager

Evan CarmichaelYoungEntrepreneur.com Blog Manager

Original Link: Steal These 8 Donald Trump Ideas To Make It Big

Enterprize at IMAGINE!

The Enterprize team was out full force for the first day of school at the University of British Columbia. E for Enterprize! p.s. aren't our keychain-bottleopeners crazy awesome? Useful AND convenient. That's how we roll.

Naveen, Kylie, Tyler, as well as the back of Cathy's head, hand out cotton candy to eager students.

"While world class speakers and 3 days and 2 nights in a 4.5 star hotel sound great, I'm really just here for the cotton candy"

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Who are these attractive people you ask? Why they're Enterprize execs!
From left to right: Raheel, Cathy, Kevin, Tyler, Boris, Dionne, Chad and Jinn-Erik

Welcome to the Enterprize Canada Blog!

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