Tuesday, March 19, 2024 13:00to14:00

This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.

Date: Mar. 19th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, startup law
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 13:00to14:00

This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research. Our market research librarian Emily Jaeger-McEnroe will walk us through some of those resources using a market research canvas tool.

Date: Mar. 26th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, startup law
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 13:00to14:00

This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.

Date: Apr. 2nd, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, startup law
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 12:00to13:00

In this workshop, you'll learn how VC's typically value an early stage innovation driven venture. To do that we'll go through and give examples on how to forecast sales and how to set pricing, how to forecast expenses and how to figure out the amount of capital needed to finance your business. We'll also explore some of the more common sources of cash from both public institutions and private organisations.

This workshop is facilitated by Derrick Wong (Ronald Chwang EiR).

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, Venture Capital
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 13:00to14:00

This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.

Date: Apr. 9th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room -FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, startup law
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 12:00to13:00

Now that you have a grasp on how much money you need, this workshop will focus on the "deal". You'll learn what is a venture capital fund, its structure and how they operate, and what VCs look for in an early stage innovation driven venture. You'll also learn about the typical elements of a term sheet in connection with equity investments and SAFEs, and caveats when raising money. Finally, we'll explain how a capitalization table works and finish off with a brief overview of minority shareholder rights.

Classified as: entrepreneurship, External, faculty, innovation, students, undergraduate students, Venture Capital
Friday, April 12, 2024 10:00to11:30

Title: New Category Recommendation in Concentrated Sales Environments

Date: Friday, April 12th 2024 

Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Location: Bronfman Building, room 360

Presented by: Prof. Ravi Bapna from the School of Management of University of Minnesota

Registration: Registration Link

Classified as: CDSI speaker Series, data science, Social events, management, machine learning, Business
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