Team TRU put on a fun, exciting, Race to a Million half time event, held at the Commodore Grand Cafe and Lounge. Trent Hardaker, Bernie Warren and Lisa Ottenbreit gave us a few words on planning the half time show as well as the overall outcome of the event. Check it out in the link below!!

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Every new product needs to be tested for durability, functionality, and design; these are just a few things among many. Bernie Warren, a race participant on Team TRU, brought an idea on a new way to crowd test new mobile applications. Thanks for the submission Bernie, and of course we’ll be sending your t-shirt to you and entering you into the BIG DRAW at the end of the race in July, good luck Bernie!!!

Idea Title:
Meta-App to Crowd-Test Mobile Apps

From:
Bernie Warren, Kamloops BC

Idea Summary:
A Meta-App

A mobile application to test the usability and functionality of potential mobile apps.

One of the great difficulties in developing a mobile app is how are the various users going to use the app and how good is the user interface.

This meta-app would deliver the prototype application to a wide audience which could be delineated on demo or pysco graphics, depending on the need.

The meta-app envelope would track usage keystrokes, time spent etc. After a certain period of use a survey would initiated and the opinion of the user would be captured and emailed to the app developer.

Idea Description:
For using the meta app for a period of time and once the user answered the survey then the user would then be rewarded by owning the app permanently and perhaps have their name put in credits of the program.

This type of “crowd testing” could be very effective and could be even set up to provide ongoing feedback for optional upgrades etc.

Message:
An automated and more cost efficient Mob4Hire
http://www.mob4hire.com/

SPECIAL MESSAGE:
Do you have an idea that you think could make money? Submit your money-making ideas using the form located here.  If any of the teams use your idea or if we publish your idea to our website we’ll give you credit, automatically send you a cool Race To A Million T-Shirt AND enter you for a chance to win your choice of either…

1. A Trip for 2 with all expenses paid to Kamloops, BC, Canada for the season finale;  or
2. $10,000 … That’s ONE MILLION cents in exchange for your 2 cents … A great return on investment that makes cents … as well as sense! (Don’t worry we won’t pay out in pennies… we promise.)

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Dr. Hafiz Rahman, the Associate Dean of the TRU School of Business & Economics joins in the studio to lend us some of his knowledge. Additionally we shine the spotlight on them to recognize their recent sponsorship of our event The Art of Doing Business Series.

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For episode 17 we talked to all the student participants in the Race to a Million and had a chance to get some insight on what it’s like competing in a business competition with little business experience, against those who have been doing business for much longer. Check it out and give us the thumbs up!!!

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Episode 17 of the Race to a Million can now be viewed on the website.  This week we have a TRU theme to the Race.  We take a look at what’s happening with the teams, what it’s like to be a student and a participant in the Race, the Associate Dean of the School of Business and Economics joins us in the study to talk about sponsoring the upcoming Art of Doing Business Series, and we head up to TRU for International Days and speak with TRU World about their marketing efforts to International students.

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Follow the latest strategy’s, get up to speed and stay on top of all the hard core business action that these teams have been doing as we take you on the ground and follow two business meetings to show you the leg work these three teams have been doing. Which team is leading the pack? Find out in this Race update!!!

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Episode 13 is now airing …

This episode is running on Shaw TV on the following dates: Thursday January, 20th at 8PM, Saturday, January 22nd at 5PM and Sunday, January 23rd at 5PM (Moved from 3PM)

If you can’t catch it on Shaw TV in the local Kamloops market you can check out the entire episode here on this website through our Vimeo channel in full HD by following the link at the end of this post!

In this episode:

1. BIZ APPS:  Great applications for mobile smart phones and devices. Dean and Peter do battle to see who has the better application. Who do you think better this week? We’d love to hear from you. Vote for your favorite in the comments section of this post!
2. BIG IDEAS:  Bryan Wickham from Dragon’s Decorative Concrete joins us in the studio for a segment we like to call BIG IDEAS. Where we talk about one of his former inventions called the Umbrachipin… A Golf Umbrella that doubles as a putting and chipping practice tool.
3. PARTICIPANT SPOTLIGHT:  Local Realtor, Mike Harrison, from Team Alpha joins us in the studio for a participant spotlight.
4. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT:  We head up to Aberdeen Mall and interview Trish Baldwin to talk about the mall, its connections to the community, and why they became a Race to a Million sponsor.
5. RACE UPDATE:  We tune into to watch Team Genie, Team Alpha and Team TRU with a race update. Team Genie works on their marketing for the Kids Coffee and Tea Company while Team Alpha and Team TRU team up to “pitch” the Kamloops SPCA on a great business idea which can also help the BCSPCA with a great fund-raising program.

Check it all out at the following page:

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Get the full Race Update from Episode 8 here!!!!! Team Alpha talks about three different investment strategies… From Team Nexus is Professor Investor who promotes healing with the top five products on www.dealsvm.com… Matrix and their new website along with the distribution of Vatahealth… We went up to TRU to get an update from Bernie Warren and Usman Vahidy for Team TRU… and lastly Team Genie’s Michael Koehn came into the studio to talk about Kids Coffee and Tea Company!

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Team TRU has been taking the lead in almost every race update, so what makes them more successful in Race to a Million? What are their strategy’s and what do they have planned for the future? Watch these race updates and you’ll find out!!! For episode 6 we caught up with team TRU at the Kamloops Fall Homshow. Brendan Shaw and Jordan Hirschmiller talk to us about some of the products team TRU were selling. Jumping up one week to episode 7 we went to Wholesale Furniture Brokers to visit Matt Muzzillo. Finally for episode 8 we run up to the classrooms of TRU to speak with Bernie Warren and Usman Vahidy!!

Episode 8 at TRU

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Episode 7 with Matt Muzzillo at Wholesale Furniture Brokers

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Episode 6 Kamloops Fall Homeshow

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Since you’ve been inviting us into your home for the last few months we thought we’d invite you into one of ours.  Join us at Peter’s home, decorated for the holidays, as we talk review what has happened with the teams so far in the Race To A Million.

It’s been quite an adventure so far in the race and since we are switching the calendar over to 2011 we thought we’d share some of our candid thoughts on some of the strategies employed by the teams so far and what we think, straight shooting from the hip.

Where did the idea of the Race to a Million come from? Who is watching? Where are the teams at? What are they doing? Do they have a chance of getting there?

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Dean catches up with Bernie Warren for this Team TRU participant spotlight on the third floor of the International Building at TRU World on the Thompson Rivers University campus.

From welding to the forestry sector to Earnst and Young’s Accounting Computer Consulting Group to cutting his teeth on Bay Street in Toronto Bernie has definitely earned the right to teach the business leaders of tomorrow at TRU’s School of Business. Bernie loves the Kamloops area and jumped at the chance to teach business here over 20 years ago. Today there are not many people who can boast about still being in the same job after 20 years but Kamloops should be proud that Bernie can. Bernie teaches operations management and computer related courses in the business degree program at Thompson Rivers University.

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Bernie shares a little about the whole Race To A Million contest and how it’s working for the students. He says social media and connections play a significant roll.

Bernie also talks about the International Business Plan competitions in memory of Tony Brower held last year with participation from all over North America… first place went to TRU students and second place went to a lady for starting a special daycare in New York City… Bernie says that Race To A Million has helped garner some tremendous interest and support from the Kauffman Foundation for the TRU school of business and the International Business Plan competition.

Bernie thinks it’s going to take something BIG and QUICK that leverages technology somehow to succeed in the Race but beyond the race he sees a lot of future success and new challenges coming out of this exciting show.

Privacy, secrecy and protecting intellectual property is a very big challenge with entrepreneurs but Bernie thinks this “Old School” way of thinking is on the way out. Instead, he says the new economy is about sharing ideas and global participation. Don’t hold on to your ideas too tightly; ideas have to be shared so that we can all build on them.

Please Note:

Don’t forget if you’ve missed the full half hour shows of the Race To A Million on Shaw TV or if you don’t get them in your area you can watch them in high definition from the full-shows page of the Race To A Million website: to watch the full shows click here.

Team TRU has added another $172 in sales commissions to their bottom line through their marketing partnership with Kamloops Night Out. Way to keep up the pressure and keep things moving ahead team TRU!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Idea to everyone!

In this BIG Ideas Video Peter and Dean discuss submitting to the BIG IDEAS form on Race To A Million and some feedback (AND IDEAS) from Peter’s daughter Heather Cameron-Inglis. Are there people out there that seem a little reluctant to submit their ideas?  You bet there are! Are they holding onto their ideas? Yes! Why might that be? Heather Cameron-Inglis shed a little light on why this might be for us to share.

Some of the ideas might be from more than one person… can people submit ideas as groups or couples? The answer is yes! Please do! Perhaps you have a team of your own and are following along with the show trying to create some masterminding and entrepreneurial business yourselves. That would be great and we’d love you to submit on behalf of a group or even if you’re doing it with a friend!

Some people might also be thinking … If I submit my idea I might win $10,000 but if I keep my idea to myself then I won’t have to share it with anyone and I could make millions … to that we say … If you don’t submit your idea and you never get around to doing it … you’ll have nothing BUT even if you’re scared of losing it … email Dean and Peter at info@racetoamillion.ca with your thoughts and maybe we can help … that’s what we are here for!

Watch the video to hear a couple of ideas from Peter’s daughter, Heather, which include an iPhone application for “breaking the ice” in a conversation and an expansion of Team Alpha and Team TRU’s mosaic project idea to help with a problem that high school graduates are currently facing.

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The Deals Von Mastermind website from Team Nexus… Team TRU offers several products at the Home Show and online including local artwork and Heat Smart heaters… Team Alpha develops a special mosaic picture program and launches the effort in conjunction with Wolf Pack Hockey… Team Alpha and Team TRU come together with a common cause and partner on a project.

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We got out on the streets of Kamloops in this video segment of “Feet in the Street” and asked some fans in Kamloops a few questions.   Is it possible to turn $500 into $1 Million?  How would you do it? Is being a nice person good for business? What’s your big idea?

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