My Class Project: Stolen by Bill Gates

My favourite course this past semester was "New Enterprise Development" The majority of the course revolved around building a business plan and pitching it to fellow classmates as an entrepreneurial venture. My group spent most of the semester figuring out how to make a company successful using the internet to distribute television content to people's televisions using the internet. We figured there was a very narrow window of time before big players like Shaw, Rogers, Microsoft and Apple dove into this particular market. We knew that television as it currently exists has been dead for some time.

Our company was called Demos and while we were going to focus on niche content in order to avoid head-to-head competition when the big players dove in, our business model seems to have been duplicated by microsoft last month using their X-Box Live service as a platform.

It's nice to know our idea wasn't entirely out to lunch and the underlying assumptions of our model are holding out.

If you was to read our business plan, send me an e-mail.