/desautels/taxonomy/term/2602/all en /desautels/channels/news/new-internet-start-hypejar-uses-social-media-accurately-forecast-demand-future-product <p>An online social platform that accurately forecasts future sales of new products has won first place at the Desautels Faculty of Management’s entrepreneurial competition, the <strong>Dobson Cup</strong>.</p> <p>... Team leader and Desautels graduate <strong>Grant Yim (BCom'03)</strong> says “It is unique in the fact that there is nowhere else to find, in one place, information about products that have not yet been released. Also, existing market research organisations do not leverage social media, and as such their data is expensive and the sample sizes are smaller.”</p> Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:05:50 +0000 trang.nguyen@mcgill.ca 58973 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/universities-teach-you-change-world-231208 <p>Just three months after graduating this year from the University of Waterloo, Jonathan Rivard’s startup company had generated $130,000 in revenue.<br /> ... “It is a generational zeitgeist, no doubt about it,” says <strong>Anita Nowak</strong>, integrating director of the Social Economy Initiative, at ���ϲ����� University’s Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal.<br /> ... The <strong>Dobson Cup</strong> is structured so that students present their ideas to a panel of experts over several months and successive rounds, competing for cash prizes and mentoring advice.</p> Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:03:10 +0000 trang.nguyen@mcgill.ca 59253 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-dobson-cup-boot-camp-232919 <p>The <b>���ϲ����� Dobson Cup (MDC) Start-UP Boot Camp</b> is all about action, training, knowledge, and collaboration. You will learn from successful start-UP veterans, students, lawyers, as well as, through interactive activities with your peers. Keep your eyes open for potential business partners, they are all around you! </p> Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:52:45 +0000 trang.nguyen@mcgill.ca 62452 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/lac-megantic-des-etudiants-proposent-un-incubateur-entrepreneurial-237229 <p><span><span>Cécile Branco</span>, <strong>Ségolène Rolin</strong> et<span> Bernard d'Arche, </span>trois étudiants l'Université ���ϲ�����, ont conçu un projet de centre d'innovation qui pourrait bien voir le jour dans le nouveau centre-ville méganticois. Leur Centre magnétique, un incubateur entrepreneurial, offrirait une rampe de lancement unique en région pour ceux qui souhaitent se lancer en affaires.</span></p> Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:12:00 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 62874 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-students%E2%80%99-plans-help-rebuild-lac-megantic-win-praise-237230 <p>One year after a runaway train transporting oil plowed through the downtown core of Lac-Mégantic, igniting and razing much of the town’s commercial centre, three ���ϲ����� University students with a passion for social entrepreneurship have become part of the town’s efforts to rebuild.</p> Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:13:32 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 62875 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/student-initiative-lac-megantic-237355 <p><span>Desautels students Bernard d'Arche and Cécile Branco discuss their Dobson Cup winning initiative on Breakfast Television Montreal.</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.btmontreal.ca/videos/3657278448001/" target="_blank"><span>View video here.</span></a></p> Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:07:16 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 62890 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/reconstruire-l%E2%80%99heure-de-l%E2%80%99entrepreneuriat-social-237374 <p><span>Au cœur du centre-ville ravagé de Lac-Mégantic, créer une résidence pour développer et porter des projets d’entreprise. Voilà le plan que trois étudiants de l’Université ���ϲ����� — Cécile Branco-Côté, <strong>Ségolène Rolin</strong> et Bernard d’Arche — ont élaboré cet hiver lors d’un cours sur l’entrepreneuriat social. Aujourd’hui sur le point de devenir réalité, le </span><em>« Centre magnétique »</em><span> aura pour tâche de fédérer les innovations locales et de créer des synergies entre elles.</span><br /> <br /></p> Fri, 04 Jul 2014 15:12:08 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 62894 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-student-bernard-darche-helping-rebuild-lac-megantic-237376 <p><span>Bernard d’Arche, ���ϲ����� Student [and one of the winners of the <span><strong>Dobson Cup</strong><span>]</span></span>, who came up with a unique idea to help rebuild Lac Megantic.<br /> <br /> Listen: </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/tommy-schnurmacher-show/mcgill-student-bernard-darche-on-helping-to-rebuild-lac-megantic-july-3-2014" target="_blank">Tommy Schnurmacher Show</a></p> Fri, 04 Jul 2014 15:14:18 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 62896 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/entrepreneurs-and-big-dreams-shine-montreal-startup-festival-237481 <p><span>Montrealer</span><span> Michael </span><span>Moszberg</span><span> was studying abroad and in the market for a gym, but didn’t want to make the commitment to a membership.</span></p> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:00:47 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 62923 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/adam-b-coape-arnold-artisantrepreneur-237732 <p><span>Adam B. Coape-Arnold came to ���ϲ�����’s School of Continuing Studies the day before classes started for the Fall 2013 semester in order to see what the School offered.</span></p> Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:07:39 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 63013 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/megantic-se-reinventer-apres-la-crise-238780 <p><span>J’ai participé à la quatrième et dernière étape de </span><a href="http://www.latourneedesentrepreneurs.org/lac-megantic/">la Tournée des entrepreneurs</a><span>, hier, à Lac-Mégantic. Journée très différente de </span><a href="http://blogues.journaldequebec.com/marioasselin/culture/la-tournee-des-entrepreneurs-a-gaspe/" title="La Tournée des entrepreneurs à Gaspé">celle de Gaspé</a><span> qui a rassemblé des entrepreneurs de Mégantic, mais beaucoup de gens de l’extérieur, également.</span></p> Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:15:06 +0000 joy.wang@mail.mcgill.ca 63362 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/selling-textbooks-without-hassle-haggle-265188 <p>As the new semester rolls in, so does a new textbook-exchanging app. Venndor, founded by recent ���ϲ����� graduates Anthony Heinrich, Julien Marlatt and Tynan Davis, is a classifieds app with the goal of helping students buy and sell textbooks without the need for haggling or negotiating prices.</p> Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:45:52 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 66972 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-x-1-accelerator-seventh-week-glance-269209 <p>Week seven of the ���ϲ����� X-1 Accelerator was all about two things: Announcing a transformative $2 million gift from the John Dobson Foundation, and setting up for the upcoming Demo Days.</p> Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:58:20 +0000 colin.donahoe@mail.mcgill.ca 67709 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/dobson-centre-explores-future-and-emergent-technologies-282261 <p>On October 18, the <strong>���ϲ����� Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship</strong> hosted its third workshop of the fall season, which focused on the technological innovations that are shaking up the business world.</p> <p>The two invited guest speakers were Matthew Boerum from Audible Reality, winner of the 2017 ���ϲ����� Dobson Cup, and Yves Guillaume A. Messy, founder of insurance startup QGS Technologies Ltd.</p> <p>Both speakers led discussions on the opportunities enabled through technological advancement, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain.   </p> Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:37:35 +0000 julie.lapalme@mcgill.ca 68018 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-notman-partnership-takes-mcgill-startups-one-step-further-275534 <p>Established under the ���ϲ����� Innovation Collective, the ���ϲ�����-Notman partnership offers short-term residencies to startup cofounders affiliated with ���ϲ����� either as students, alumni, or as staff or researchers.</p> <p>During their residency, companies have access to resources such as office space, mentoring sessions and workshops dedicated to start-ups. To-date, Notman House has welcomed more than twenty startup companies, many of which have also benfitted from the <strong>���ϲ����� Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship</strong>.</p> Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:03:43 +0000 thao.nguyen3@mail.mcgill.ca 67957 at /desautels