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Sean Wise, National Columnist on Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital for the Globe & Mail newspaper, shares with you insights on raising capital and growing your business. Collecting the best columns from his first years at the Globe, this book cover topics relevant to: founders, funders and those that service the entrepreneuiral ecosystem. Including: How to create an Elevator Pitch; How to pick a partner; The Art of Business Jui Jitsou; Networking to Survive and 14 questions every investor asks on the first date This tome provides the inside track on funding and growing your business.

WISE WORDS by Sean Wise

GREAT IDEAS CHANGE THE WORLD, but how do you know if your idea is truly great?   That is the problem Professor Sean Wise addresses in his third and best book to date. Sean Wise, former online host and business advisor to the hit reality show, Dragons' Den, has heard tens of thousands of entrepreneurs' idea  pitches. Some were good, most were bad, and in this book he shows you how to tell the difference. Based on more than 20,000 hours of pitches, Wise takes us inside the minds of investors and other opportunity spotters to learn how they separate the best from the rest.  In doing so, Wise provides readers with an objective framework for gauging the potential of Startup business ideas. This book provides: •       an entrepreneurial field guide for innovators •       tools to help you recognize great entrepreneurial opportunities •       an interactive framework to help Startup entrepreneurs address key issues •       a multidimensional objective scorecard to assist in the decision process •       lists of key considerations to address before you invest your time, energy and money So before you drop out, invest in, or quit your day job to pursue an opportunity, first discover if your idea is HOT or NOT and learn how to get investors to back your pitch.

HOT or NOT:: How to know if your Business Idea will Fly or Fail

This fun and accessible guide offers super advice for business success.Top venture capitalist and self- proclaimed “comic book geek” Sean Wise reveals how to create a winning business persona through valuable strategies from great comic book icons. In this engaging and insightful guide, Wise takes readers on a guided tour through the world of superheroes and their lessons, directly relating them to essential business tactics people need to master in order to succeed in today’s workplace. Featuring modern-day examples of business icons who best illustrate superhero strategies—as well as cautionary lessons from infamous supervillains—this is the book for anyone who dreams of donning a cape instead of a suit, taking an oath instead of swearing at the copier, and seeing the big picture instead of getting mired in the daily grind.

How to Be a Business Superhero: Prepare for Everything, Train with the Best, Make your Own Destiny at Work

I may teach Entrepreneurship at Ryerson, and help Canada discuss Entrepreneurship through Dragons' Den, but I started my first business at 13.

Now 30 years later, I've raised more than a billion in finance for startups, working on  Dragons' Den for 5 seasons and recently completed my PhD in Business.  

Have keynoted over 100 conferences, and would love to do more. 

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Entrepreneruship And The Enterprise

STARTup AMERICA presents 30 minutes with Professor Sean Wise on the topic:  Where to go, when funders say no!

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Entrepreneruship for the Enterprise

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Fostering a Climate of Knowledge Flow

What you can learn from this runaway television success story in a multimedia behind-the-scenes presentation. Dragons' Den is now in its seventh season.


Inside the Dragons' Den

Dr. Sean Wise is one of the world’s foremost social network topologists.  He has spent the last five years examining the rise of the Connected Company and mapping how social tools allow business to change with the times.  In this engaging keynote, Dr. Wise will show you how these new tools and fresh paradigms can be leveraged by your organization to increase creativity, upgrade customer service, stay innovative, and drive employee efficiency and customer satisfaction.

The Engaged Enterprise: Social Tools for the 21st Century

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The CBC's business reality series, Dragons' Den, is where contestants pitch their business ideas to 5 multimillionaire investors in an effort to acquire the funding they need to make their business come to life. The way to suceed is to master the "elevator pitch." Mentor Capitalist, Sean wise explains how. Directed and produced by Mike Armitage

The Elevator Pitch

The following is a sampling of Sean Wise's speech at Engage 2010. As one of Canada's leading mentors for emerging growth companies, Sean Wise helps business dreams become profitable realities. Since 2000, Wise has facilitated more than 100 venture capital boot camps, financing forums and industry conferences. After training with Wise, his clients have collectively raised more than $2.5 billion for their businesses.

Sean Wise - Engage 2010

Professor Sean Wise talks about how we can go about being business superheroes by preparing for everything, training for the best, and making our own destinies. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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