Experiential+Exercise+in+E-Commerce

=Online Venture Challenge=

Geoff Archer of Royal Roads in Canada has developed an experiential exercise called the Online Venture Challenge. Students in teams of four +/- build a Mission Driven E-Commerce website, and try to make as much money as they can within a month. All profits go to charity. Donation buttons are not allowed. All revenue must come from sales of a product or a service.

Nine current examples are provided below. They will be live until Tuesday (September 20, 2011) night. A typical team in this class raises about $500 from 200 unique users…which implies that this assignment forces the discipline of presenting a compelling value proposition to strangers. At least two fantastic real businesses have been borne out of some version of this pedagogy, including www.govoluntouring.com and www.ethicaldeal.com.


 * @http://morganthemonkey.webs.com/
 * http://Supportuganda.org
 * @http://www.supportourvets.ca/
 * @http://buildavillage.webs.com/
 * @http://www.kidsforsickkids.webs.com/
 * @http://busyb.webs.com/
 * @http://www.causeforclothes.com/
 * www.wishboneforwishes.com
 * @http://www.photophilanthropist.com/