Another year, another Entrepreneur Week. And once again, I’m unable to attend but you can!

If you are in Waterloo, Canada (click for Google Maps location) or near it, you can participate in this year’s exciting “innovation festival.”

Here’s some more information (also available on their website):

“Entrepreneurs! start your engines: Entrepreneur Week, North America’s largest annual innovation festival dedicated to the entrepreneurial spirit, will be held in Waterloo November 16-22 and it promises to be another high-octane event to inspire innovation.

Entrepreneur Week is an invigorating week-long festival of events dedicated to celebrating the significant contributions of our greatest community asset – our entrepreneurs!

Waterloo Region is the best place in the world to do a tech startup. Just ask the 200 tech startups doing their thing here. And Entrepreneur Week is a festival unlike any other on the planet. Entrepreneur Week connects entrepreneurs, financiers, students, youth, mentors and the services that support them to success.

Entrepreneur Week 2009 will feature:

Startup Stories: Intimate speaking engagements profiling successful techy entrepreneur founders, including Chris Hughes, co-Founder, Facebook, Tim Bray, Father of XML and Internet Search, Razor Suleman, Founder and CEO, I Love Rewards Jim Estill, the CEO Blogger, Ali Asaria, founder of Well.ca, and more!

The Waterloo Region Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Gala: A black tie formal gala event, celebrating local and international entrepreneurs.  Inductions are made into The Waterloo Way Hall of Fame.

The Leading Edge Youth Entrepreneurship Conference: This one is for the highschool students who dream of making it big with their own venture. A full day workshop and seminar to inspire young entrepreneurs.

StartupCamp Waterloo: the un-conference. An ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

Celebrating Entrepreneur Week with Andy Macaulay, President and CEO, ZiG, at the Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship, Wilfrid Laurier University as part of their Innovation and Entrepreneurship Speaker Series.

The return of the Founders and Funders Dinner. Founders & Funders is a social event aimed at bringing together the people that start the next big successful company with the people that fund these companiesin their earliest stages. This ain’t a pitch fest.  It is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to meet funders, and each other.  By invitation only.

Strategic Partnering Day: Communitech connects budding entrepreneurs with some big guns in the Tech Industry (including RIM, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Celestica, Open Text, Sybase, Agfa HealthCare, Rogers and ON Semiconductor. Proposals to participate welcome. Now in its fifth year, Entrepreneur Week promises to be another huge success in sparking entrepreneurial innovation in the Waterloo Region. Save the date – and watch for more details coming soon.”

Peter Kao

Here’s a broadcast for all you fire-breathing entrepreneurs. I received an email from a representative for Cornell University regarding their upcoming online video contest.

Details for the contest:

“Now through November 30, eCornell is inviting entrepreneurs who are developing (or have already developed) a new product or service to submit a 30- to 60-second video that explains or demonstrates their process for understanding what customers want and satisfying their needs. The first-place winner will receive a full scholarship (a $3,500 value) for Cornell’s newest online certificate program, A Systems Approach to Product and Service Design, which arms entrepreneurs with a unique eight-step process for effective product development. Second- and third-place winners will have the opportunity to enroll in two eCornell product design courses each, free of charge ($1,250 value per course). Winners will be selected based on quality of response, creativity, and methodology, and will be announced on December 14, 2009.

This is a great opportunity for your readers to connect with the brightest minds in the startup community, generate brand awareness for their respective organizations, and claim their FREE opportunity to win a full scholarship to one of the top universities in the nation. Additional information about the contest can be found at http://www.ecornell.com/l-entrepreneur-video-contest/. “

Go get them, dragons!

Peter Kao

I received an email from a Los Angeles producer about a new reality show they are filming. The producer has developed such shows as Supernanny, Real Housewives of New York and It’s Me Or The Dog for the ABC network.

If you are under the age of 18, you should apply right now!

Check out the PR release below:

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 6/9/2009

Contact: Brian Robles – TV Development : 323/904-4680 brobles@shedmediaus.com

PRODUCER’S OF ABC’S SUPERNANNY ARE SEARCHING ACROSS AMERICA FOR TEEN BUSINESS GURU’S TO STAR IN NEW REALITY SHOW:
Those under 18 are encouraged to apply immediately

Los Angeles, CA – The producers of ABC’s popular parenting series SUPERNANNY are searching for kids UNDER 18 years old that have their own business or help run a family business to star in a new network show!

Producers want kids who run various types of businesses and have become financially successful. Do you consider yourself a mogul in the making? Do you know someone who is a business expert and is only a teen? If so then we want to hear from you!

Those interested may apply by e-mailing brobles@shedmediaus.com for an application. Please include a short note about your business success and why you are perfect to star in your own show.

The producers of this show are based in Los Angeles and also have offices in London and Brighton. The production company is one of the leading independent production companies of high quality un-scripted television programming in the United States and abroad. The international phenomenon, SUPERNANNY, launched the company in the United States where they are building an innovative reputation for creating transformational, critically acclaimed reality based documentary style television.

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- Peter Kao