Club Of The Year 2009-2010
David Cornu | May 5, 2010
Visual Impact Thanks Our Sponsor
David Cornu | March 22, 2010
MES In The Press
David Cornu | March 19, 2010
The Perfect Pitch
Elina Pavlidis | March 14, 2010
On the March 22nd the & the McGill Entrepreneurs’ Society and the MBA entrepreneurs are hosting the Perfect Pitch from 5:00pm – 6:30pm on the 3rd floor of the Bronfman building, MBA lounge. The informal event will welcome an entrepreneur and a Venture Capitalist to guide attendees to the perfect pitch and begin with five students pitching their business ideas.
Entrepreneur Benjamin Yoskovitz will share his experience raising funds for Standout Jobs and Montreal Start Up’s Daniel Drouet will give the presenting students feedback on their pitches. Droulet will also share what VCs really looking for and the right way to catch their attention during an elevator pitch.
Students that are interested in pitching their ideas should email vp_internal@mcgillentrepreneurs.com before March 17th.
Startup Career Fair Pics
David Cornu | March 12, 2010
Company Feedback (Startup Career Fair)
David Cornu | February 15, 2010Many thanks to all companies and students who participated in our first Startup Career Fair. In order to improve the experience for next year, please fill out the feedback form by clicking on the link below.
Registered Companies
David Cornu | February 11, 2010Join us for our annual Startup Career Fair!
Elina Pavlidis | January 29, 2010The McGill Entrepreneurs’ Society (MES) is pleased to present its first Start-up Career Fair on the 15th of February 2010. It will take place at the Desautels Faculty of Management from 9:30am to 12:00pm and will be followed by a networking lunch (12:00-1:00pm).
The aim of this event is to give the occasion to small enterprises (and startups) and future graduates from all faculties at McGill to meet in order to facilitate recruitment initiatives.
The full list of companies that will participate to the career fair will be available on the 10th!
Company registration:
Companies must register online before the 10th of February 2010 by filling out the form at the link bellow:
Students registration:
Don’t want to work for an evil corporation? Looking for an internship? Part-time job? Full-time job?
JOIN US ON THE 15th of FEBRUARY!
Management Students please register through MyFuture: https://management.myfuture.mcgill.ca/students/
Engineering Students please register through MyFuture: http://www.mcgill.ca/careers4engineers/
Other students are welcome to join us and can register through CaPS: https://csm-caps.mcgill.ca/students/
Don’t forget to bring several copies of your resumé!
Dressing code: Business casual
Please note that startups registered so far have mainly (but not exclusively) indicated an interest for students in the field of marketing and computer programming.
For more information, contact Elina Pavlidis at President@mcgillentrepreneurs.com
Work in a Startup company!
Elina Pavlidis | January 18, 2010Don’t want to work for an evil corporation?! Check out your alternatives!
In collaboration with Bridgecamp and the MBA Entrepreneurship club, the McGill Entrepreneurs’ Society is hosting an information session about working in a startup company.
The event is preliminary to a career fair that will be held exclusively for startups looking to recruit students (internships/jobs) mid-February.
When? Thursday the 21st of January at 5:30
Where? Bronfman, 3rd floor, MBA lounge
Who? Frédéric Lalonde, serial entrepreneur whose former company NewTrade Technologies was acquired by Expedia in 2002. He has accepted to come talk to McGill students about startup culture, startup ideas and his current project, openplaces.org with two of his developers.
More about our guest speaker: Frederic Lalonde, Expedia veteran and a famous serial entrepreneur, Frederic is currently the founder and CEO ofOpenplaces.org, a travel start-up that aims to be the world’s largest organized repository of maps, pictures, details and advice about every place in the world that anyone has ever travelled to. He started his career in the internet industry when heco-founded Newtrade Technologies Inc, a hugely successful start-up that was acquired by Expedia in 2002. Next, he moved to Expedia, one of the largest travel companies in the world, where he was Vice President of Hotel Supplier Strategy and was responsible for developing the Expedia Direct Connect technology product strategy, and for signing-up the major hotel chain partners (over 10,000 hotels) for Direct Connect. He later became Vice President of Hotels & Packages Product Planning inExpedia and played a key role in the company’s acquisitions of Hotels.com, TripAdvisor and eLong.
(Source : MakeMyTrip.com)
McGill Entrepreneurship Week
David Cornu | November 9, 2009
As part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, the undergraduate McGill Entrepreneurs’ Society (MES) & the MBA Entrepreneurship Club have invited experienced entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists to provide insight through interactive seminars, empowering you to turn your idea into a successful business. Come discover the world of entrepreneurship!
Click through to the McGill Entrepreneurship Week page for more details.
