2014 Dobson Cup participant on how winning changed her

Published: 12 April 2017

Montreal-based Lantinga Vita is all about merging functionality, a chic design and sustainability. The company’s Tempus bag is an Italian-made, multi-functional bag that boasts a compartment for a...

Winning Dobson Cup team on entrepreneurship, plans for the future and head movement as disease indicator

Published: 11 April 2017

Startup Saccade Analytics was the first place winner of the 2017 McGill Dobson Cup Health Sciences Track. The team’s pitch involved analyzing eye and head movement to help diagnose neural diseases....

Applications Open: McGill X-1 Accelerator 2017

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 11:00toSunday, April 30, 2017 23:45

The McGill X-1 Accelerator is an intensive 10-week summer program designed to accelerate later-stage McGill startups towards investment readiness and launch./desautelsCategory: Desautels Faculty of...

Dobson Cup winners announced

Published: 3 April 2017

The McGill Dobson Cup 2017 powered by National Bank is over, and the winners have been announced. From the initial 136 applications, 121 teams pitched their startups in the run-up to the semi...

Social enterprise and innovation: an interview with Jake Wildman-Sisk

Published: 31 March 2017

As judge for the Social Enterprise category at the semi-finals of this year’s McGill Dobson Cup, Jake Wildman-Sisk’s credentials are solid: Not only did he help develop the first social systems...

Social Media for Startups: a workshop to build from

Published: 30 March 2017

At the last of this season’s McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship workshops, participants were treated to an in-depth understanding of what social media can do for startups. The workshop, led...

GroundIt’s CEO on her entrepreneurial journey

Published: 21 March 2017

Business partners Audrey Bolduc and Mitalie Makhani won the 2015 Dobson Cup with their pitch to make fertilizer from used coffee grounds. Now CEO of GroundIt, Ms. Bolduc returns to judge the 2017...

New financial skills workshop at McGill Dobson Centre

Published: 16 March 2017

The McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship’s recent Startup Financials workshop gave attendees a solid basis from which to build out financial projections, which can be the weakest link in many...

Dobson Cup hopefuls: 40 startups through to 2017 finals

Published: 23 February 2017

The Semi-finals of the McGill Dobson Cup 2017 powered by National Bank are over, and of the 121 teams that competed, 40 of them are still standing. After four days of pitches, the event’s judges...

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