Hey Canadian students! Do you have a wicked idea that will change the world? Need some startup money to get started?!

Canadian Business is having their annual The Great Innovation Competition. The winner will win:

* Up to $50,000 in engineering and consulting services from Nytric Ltd. towards developing a prototype

* A free feasibility study by Nytric Ltd. valued at $20,000

* Intellectual Property legal services from Bereskin & Parr, valued at $10,000

* Business and financial advisory services from nbp, valued at $10,000

* Invaluable publicity including a profile in an issue of Canadian Business Magazine

All it takes to register is provide details under 1000 characters for the following categories: Innovation, Product Status, Marketing Status, Competitive Analysis.

Entries due by May 1, 2009.

Click here for more details.

Good luck!

- Peter Kao

Update: It seems like Sean, the director of Velocity really likes me (or hates me, depending how you see it). I’m on the 11th page of the Frosh Issue (Tuesday, September 2, 2008) Iron Warrior. Download it here: http://iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca/pdf/2008-frosh.pdf

I lol’d when I saw my picture from the Velocity photo shoot a few weeks ago.

"Entrepreneurship is like being electrocuted!"

Or is it…"Starting your own business is electrifying!"

Check out http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca for the original pics.

And now you can lol with me…

PS: Oops – my year should be 2B Systems Design rather than 3B Systems Design.

Peter Kao

Just found out that you can’t create a Google Group Page with Chrome!

How funny…

Peter Kao

I was on Digg.com last night and came upon some hilarious comments involving Confucius jokes. Seriously, Digg is endless entertainment. Even the comments from Digg members are hilarious.

Here, I present you the Best of ‘Confucius Says’ Jokes!

Confucius Says:

“Man who drop watch in toilet have shitty time.”

“Baseball is wrong.  Man with four balls cannot walk.”

“Man who bounce woman on bedspring this spring, have offspring next spring.”

“A man with his hands in pockets feel cocky.”

“He who fish in other mans well often catches crabs.”

“If you want pretty nurse, you got to be patient.”

“Man who put cock on stove have hot rod.”

LOL

Peter Kao

Yes! Today, I finally got a chance to get back at companies that outsource their call centers.

I purchased Quickbooks Pro 2008 for my startup company – Influenza Media with the assumption that it will support multi-currencies just like ALL previous versions. Sadly, I found out that it only supports CDN currency when I got home.

I gave Quickbooks a call and asked about their “upgrade service”. Long story short, they asked for another $200 dollars to “upgrade” my Pro version to a Multicurrency version, which makes the total sum up to ~$400 dollars. That’s fine because they had told me that I could keep the Pro software…which means I can just return it back to Best Buy (where I bought the software) and get my full money back!

What costs $400 dollars – I got for $200 all from “upgrading” my software.

In your face India!

- Peter Kao