NAAAP Vancouver Invites You to Cultivate your Business Leadership in the Right Direction!

Are you ready to start your own business or have a great business idea? Or are you looking to find out the hottest trends in business for your company or your own business? Then this event is for you!

On Thursday Jan 17th, CBC is inviting NAAAP Vancouver members and other CBC guests for a private evening screening of CBC's new series "Fortune Hunters", starting in January 2008, at their downtown studio - this series focuses on the hottest business trends right now and how hungry entrepreneurs are chasing for a piece of the action. A focus group will be held afterwards to get your feedback and opinions on how to improve the series based on our points of view. Get a chance to meet with some of our other NAAAP members as well.

RSVP in mandatory - no exceptions. More information is found below.
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ARE YOU READY TO QUIT YOUR JOB AND
START YOUR OWN BUSINESS?
DIANNE BUCKNER HOSTS FORTUNE HUNTERS
BEGINS SATURDAY, JANUARY 12 AT 3:30 P.M. (PT) ON
CBC NEWSWORLD

Social networking websites, exotic fruit drinks, eco-friendly products – these are some of the hottest business trends right now and hungry entrepreneurs want a piece of the action. But how? FORTUNE HUNTERS, a new show airing Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. PT (repeats Sundays at 10:30 a.m. PT and at 1:30 p.m. PT) beginning January 12, will explore the latest money-making trends and introduce viewers to the people who are cashing in now.

Created by Dianne Buckner, current host of DRAGONS’ DEN and long-time host of CBC NEWS: VENTURE, the program will showcase today’s top business trends and how those trends fit into the global economy, as well as how Canadians could cash in on potential business opportunities right here at home.

Every week the show is divided into three segments: in the first, Buckner introduces a trend for the week and profiles a Canadian company – a Fortune Hunter – attempting to cash in on that trend. The second segment features interviews with business trend experts who will analyze the trend of the week and assess its business viability. Some of our celebrity experts include reno king Mike Holmes, Kevin O’Leary and Arlene Dickinson from Dragons’ Den, and fitness guru and entrepreneur Hal Johnson. The final segment – My First Million – profiles celebrities of the business world and their secrets to success. From the brain behind Goodlife Fitness, to the frank founder of Le Chateau, to the icon Wallace McCain of McCain Foods, these business gurus reveal their struggles to make it to the top and provide tips on how to get there.

In the first episode – Green Business – viewers will meet a couple from Vancouver who have grand plans for an eco-friendly carwash. DRAGONS’ DEN star Kevin O’Leary and eco-investor Vicky Sharpe weigh in on the couple’s chances for success in a market already crowded with eco-products. Green Business also profiles Canadian Springs water founder Glen Bailey, who’s got a new eco-friendly water company and whose personal story is one of overcoming the odds.