New Internet Start-Up Hypejar Uses Social Media to Accurately Forecast Demand for Future Products

Published: 11 July 2013

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 Dobson Cup....

Universities that Teach You to Change the World

Published: 23 October 2013

Just three months after graduating this year from the University of Waterloo, Jonathan Rivard’s startup company had generated $130,000 in revenue....

Dobson Cup Boot Camp

Published: 12 February 2014

The  Dobson Cup (MDC) Start-UP Boot Camp is all about action, training, knowledge, and collaboration. You will learn from successful start-UP veterans, students, lawyers, as well as, through...

Feeling entrepreneurial?

Published: 25 June 2014

“People used to take a traits-based approach to defining entrepreneurs: they are risk-takers, for instance,” says Greg Vit, BCom’80, director of the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship in ’s...

Lac-Mégantic: des étudiants proposent un incubateur entrepreneurial

Published: 25 June 2014

Cécile Branco, Ségolène Rolin et Bernard d'Arche, trois étudiants l'Université , ont conçu un projet de centre d'innovation qui pourrait bien voir le jour dans le nouveau centre-ville...

students’ plans to help rebuild Lac-Mégantic win praise

Published: 25 June 2014

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 students with a...

Bold ideas take flight at Dobson Cup

Published: 26 June 2014

One June 5, four teams were crowned victors of the 2014  Dobson Cup, the annual start-up competition hosted by the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Desautels Faculty of Management....

Student initiative for Lac-Megantic

Published: 3 July 2014

Desautels students Bernard d'Arche and Cécile Branco discuss their Dobson Cup winning initiative on Breakfast Television Montreal. View video here.

Reconstruire à l’heure de l’entrepreneuriat social

Published: 4 July 2014

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 — Cécile Branco-Côté...

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