Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, Winter 2025

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McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Chronologie
  • janvier 29, 2025
    Début de expérience
  • janvier 30, 2025
    Students form teams
  • février 11, 2025
    Student teams assigned to a startup
  • février 25, 2025
    Initial interview, Feb 24 - March 10
  • mars 20, 2025
    Touchpoint and Q&A, March 19 - 31
  • avril 10, 2025
    Final presentations, April 9 and 14
  • avril 17, 2025
    Fin de expérience
Expérience
6/6 match de projet
Dates fixées par le expérience
Entreprises privilégiées
N'importe où
Startup
N'importe qu'elle industrie

Portée de Expérience

Catégories
Lancement d'un produit ou d'un service
Compétences
strategic management sustainable business entrepreneurship operations
Objectifs et capacités de apprenant.es

Students in the BCom program complete this course in their second or third year at McGill. Students come from diverse backgrounds with a wide variety of concentrations including Strategic Management, Business Analytics, Marketing, Operations Management, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior, Finance and HR, and Sustainability. Some have completed internships in these fields.  

Apprenant.es

Apprenant.es
Premier cycle universitaire
Niveau Intermédiaire
80 apprenant.es dans le programme
Projet
15 heures par apprenant.e
Les Éducateur.trices affectent les apprenant.es à des projets
Équipes de 3
Résultats et livrables attendus

Students submit a 10-page report accompanying their final presentation. The report includes a written recommendation for the organization, including challenges the startup may encounter and an action plan to avoid or mitigate threats to business growth. Students will make recommendations from two perspectives: (1) in the short term, on how the organization should scale up with further funding, and (2) in the long term, on the organization’s strategy to ensure a sustainable business. Each student spends approximately 10-15 hours on the project. 

Chronologie du projet
  • janvier 29, 2025
    Début de expérience
  • janvier 30, 2025
    Students form teams
  • février 11, 2025
    Student teams assigned to a startup
  • février 25, 2025
    Initial interview, Feb 24 - March 10
  • mars 20, 2025
    Touchpoint and Q&A, March 19 - 31
  • avril 10, 2025
    Final presentations, April 9 and 14
  • avril 17, 2025
    Fin de expérience

Exemples de projets

Exigances

In this project, students in groups of 4-6 assume the role of organizational consultants, providing advice about how to develop, grow, and expand a new organization. Their goal is to deliver a written evaluation of the organization’s prospects, their recommendations for growth and development, and how these recommendations will affect the organization’s future. Students will interview the founder or another representative of the startup.


You should expect students to ask questions related to:

·      Your organization’s goals and product(s)

·      The problem that your organization addresses

·      The competitors

·      The target consumer

·      Hurdles faced by the founder(s)

 

Following this initial interview, students will contact the founder or representative to solicit feedback on their progress and to ask follow-up questions. Students will perform a 1-hour interview and will then contact your founder/representative with follow-up questions through a scheduled video call. Should scheduling be an issue email can be used instead. Students are encouraged to find their own research topic. You are not expected to come in with a research question, although you may suggest a direction you would like them to explore. Through hands-on and experiential learning, the projects give students an in-depth overview of the challenges involved in identifying and developing an entrepreneurial venture.

You may be asked to meet with student representatives from a maximum of two student teams. In this case, the workload and time commitment involved in this project will not change.