Education

Dual Degree-Bachelor of Commerce

Sep 2013 – Present

Sep 2010 – Apr 2015

Bachelor of Commerce
Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria (Victoria, BC)

Specializing in Entrepreneurship

Bachelor of Commerce

University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China)

Marketing Major

One of the many reasons why I chose Entrepreneurship as my specialization was the balance of theory and practices.

The teaching team believes that the best way to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set is to practice being an entrepreneur. There are many experiential program elements including value creation project, transaction creation exercise,case studies, presentation to external financial stakeholders...These really did help me to practice business skills and strategic thinking.

Transaction Creation Exercise-Paperclip Challenge

The paper clip challenge is to start with a paperclip and trade for somthing better.After five transactions we got: a Taylar made 4-iron, a $20 gift card and a fancy dinner.

What I learned from this interesting challenge was:

There’s nothing wrong with begining small !

Value Creation Project-$5 Start-up Challenge

$ 5 start-up challenge is to make as much money as possible through a startup business initiative. What we got with only $5 during a mother's day weekend:

We successfully raised $400 for BC Cancer Foundation by selling Mothers’ Day bouquets!

Entrepreneurship is not about ideas. It’s about making our ideas happen！

It’s living entrepreneurship for us and I had fun with it. Our team had a lot of ideas at first and finally we figured out: