Seminar Announcement
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| Title
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Launching an Electronics Business
(slides) |
| Speaker |
Peter Hiscocks
CEO, Syscomp Electronic Design
Professor Emeritus, Ryerson University
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| Day and Time
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
*Light refreshments will be served |
| Location
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Room BA 1230
Bahen Centre
for Information Technology
University of Toronto - St. George Campus
40 St. George Street map - code BA
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| Organizer
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GOLD Affinity Group and Solid State Circuits Chapter
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| Contact
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April Khademi, email:
,
No need to confirm attendance - everyone welcome
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| Abstract
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You have a Great Idea for a business, and you're not sure how to get started. Or you think you'd like to be in business for yourself some time in the future. In this seminar, we'll describe what we learned in launching the Open Instrument Project at Syscomp Electronic Design. We'll talk about the rewards of being in business, what you need - and don't need - to bootstrap an enterprise, and some of the pitfalls to avoid in an electronics business.
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| Biography
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Peter Hiscocks is a Professional Engineer in Ontario and member of the IEEE. He is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Ryerson University where he taught many of the courses in the EE curriculum and initiated projects to encourage Women in Engineering. He is currently CEO of Syscomp Electronic Design and Chair of the Light Pollution Subcommittee of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, for whom he is designing a low-cost sky darkness photometer.
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