Event to bring entrepreneurial students together to build unique businesses If you’re a University of Ottawa student who wants to be the next Elon Musk, uOttawa Startup Weekend is the place for you. Startup Weekend, held Feb. 26–28 in the Desmarais building, is a competition where entrepreneurial students group together to formulate a business idea …
Canadian tech giant Shopify has a new Chief Operating Officer (COO)—and it’s a University of Ottawa grad. Harley Finkelstein graduated from the MBA-JD program at the U of O, entered the Dragon’s Den as a judge on the CBC’s Next Gen Den, and on Jan. 13, 2016, he moved into a new role as COO. …
University of Ottawa student Mohammad Mohsen Badv and a group of eight other students came together to create the new website Croomer, a tool they hope will make the entrepreneurial experience a little bit easier, and a lot more successful.
