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Dragon's Den's Arlene Dickinson is Looking for Entrepreneurs

Filed under: Employment & Careers, Entrepreneurship

It's no surprise that Dragon's Den has become a cultural buzzword and an influence in the Canadian world of business.

In the past three years since the debut of the series, the number of patent applications in Canada have hit 40,000 per year, making it a "motivator" for those budding entrepreneurs according to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

The only female Dragon, Arlene Dickinson, has been battling the boys, and she's been privy to the Dragon's effect on the business community in Canada.

Dickinson has now decided to expand her empire - and encourage all those wannabe entrepreneurs to go for it with the creation of YouInc.com.

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As the CEO of Venture Communications, Dickinson's experience led her to be chosen as one of the dragons, to share her knowledge and see if potential ideas from wannabe business owners had a future. Along with fellow dragon Jim Treliving, the two are also working with businesses on the series The BIG Decision.

And it looks like there is more room for entrepreneurs to find help under Dickinson's discerning eye - with the creation of YouInc.com, an online mentoring website devoted to those wanting to take the leap to create their company and make it grow.

The website launched this week, and will be one of the offerings coming in the next year, including many ways to support and inform the entrepreneur lifestyle such as a magazine, television, podcasts, social networking and an e-commerce site.

Dickinson says we're now in the age of the "entrepreneurial economy" and believes that these creations are filling a gap in the market for business owners who are in search of tools to succeed.

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HI THERE YALL
i AM REALLY CONVINCED THAT i AM NOT AT THE RIGHT PLACE. BEEN ONLY TRYING FOR THE PAST 3 HOURS.mY THING IS THAT I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO ASK ARLENE DICKINSON A QUESTION PERTAINING TO HER FIELD OF EXPERTISE.My GIRLFRIeND AND MY SELF BOTH SENIORS, DECIDED to Trademark 3 words. We hung on to it for a couple of years and now we see that somone is coming up with a book Called The Great Canadian Bucket List. Would he be infringing on our trademark called My Bucket list.
We both got diagnosed with cancer not long after we started this. and we are hoping we have done a good thing.He is also selling vacations in canada.
It would be so great if Arlene Dickinson could give us a response, we watch the show all the time. we dont have more money then the $500.. for the Trademark.


Like Come and realize your bucket list inn canda.
Basically is our paper worth anything

Thank you sooooo much

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Dragon Lady,
Eye am the spawn of two dragons, one female and one male, born in the year of the dragon. Eye have experience in failed $72 billion dollar projects, $50 million dollar projects, but have invested significantly in terms of both dollars and intellectual sweat and need assistance in getting several projects off the ground. Proj1 NRG1 created a device with a very small footprint, that has successfully generated over 1 Mw of energy continuously, silently and environmental safe using the works of the greatest inventor of time. With regards to that project, spin off projects will enable the complete restructuring of the infernal combustion engine, the obsolescence of the failed powergrid 2025 projects planned. Another project harnesses the work of Michael Porter, Christenson, Hjamar Schahct, Schumpeter, Andreas Graus, Admiral Grace Hopper, and HwE to
enable tremendous 10X extrapolation for society. Another project is dedicated to helping women such as Sarah Kott from abuse from officers like CHP Craig Peyton, and others such as Daryl F Gates. Other projects deal with multimedia projects such as future extrapolations of the BrydUnyn, a tremendous learning multimedia presentation; Splat, a multimedia presentation to warn its audience of the dangers of ipodding (re: the death of an iPodder who failed to hear the crashing heliocopter), $$BUX to help woman attain wealth by proper investment training using the HwE; Plodicus, which increases the cultivated yield of all agricultural crops except those with extreme organophospatic use; other projects include Violex fashions for women to protect themselves from PSTD or substance abusing individuals; and the last and most important is the current remanufacturing of the powersource for the flying turtles of 1944. Have some experience in artificial intelligence based computer aided design, manufacturing, integration, robotics, microprocesser architecture design, electronics engineering, software engineering, geoplex/sysplex/supercomputer infrastructure design, ultralowlatency highfrequency financial instrument trading. In the sense of Jessie Livermore, Eye adhere to my concerns for privacy as Eye do not wish to be in the same state as those who taught me to sit on the shoulders of the giants. Doing good, as I managed to get these brief points across. Eye can be reached at ultron07@gmail.com. Thank you.
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October 25 2012 at 4:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dragon2

Dragon Lady,
Eye am the spawn of two dragons, one female and one male, born in the year of the dragon. Eye have experience in failed $72 billion dollar projects, $50 million dollar projects, but have invested significantly in terms of both dollars and intellectual sweat and need assistance in getting several projects off the ground. Proj1 NRG1 created a device with a very small footprint, that has successfully generated over 1 Mw of energy continuously, silently and environmental safe using the works of the greatest inventor of time. With regards to that project, spin off projects will enable the complete restructuring of the infernal combustion engine, the obsolescence of the failed powergrid 2025 projects planned. Another project harnesses the work of Michael Porter, Christenson, Hjamar Schahct, Schumpeter, Andreas Graus, Admiral Grace Hopper, and HwE to
enable tremendous 10X extrapolation for society. Another project is dedicated to helping women such as Sarah Kott from abuse from officers like CHP Craig Peyton, and others such as Daryl F Gates. Other projects deal with multimedia projects such as future extrapolations of the BrydUnyn, a tremendous learning multimedia presentation; Splat, a multimedia presentation to warn its audience of the dangers of ipodding (re: the death of an iPodder who failed to hear the crashing heliocopter), $$BUX to help woman attain wealth by proper investment training using the HwE; Plodicus, which increases the cultivated yield of all agricultural crops except those with extreme organophospatic use; other projects include Violex fashions for women to protect themselves from PSTD or substance abusing individuals; and the last and most important is the current remanufacturing of the powersource for the flying turtles of 1944. Have some experience in artificial intelligence based computer aided design, manufacturing, integration, robotics, microprocesser architecture design, electronics engineering, software engineering, geoplex/sysplex/supercomputer infrastructure design, ultralowlatency highfrequency financial instrument trading. In the sense of Jessie Livermore, Eye adhere to my concerns for privacy as Eye do not wish to be in the same state as those who taught me to sit on the shoulders of the giants. Doing good, as I managed to get these brief points across. Eye can be reached at ultron07@gmail.com. Thank you.

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