Posted on Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
“Personally I got some clarity on what I am looking for in terms of technical co-founder. I know that Christina Miller received good feedback as validation for her business start up. Most of the teams that went through FounderFuel said it was a great experience.”
FounderFuel is a mentor-driven accelerator that helps early stage web, mobile, and software as a service startups raise seed capital. FF provides $50K – $100K of capital and access to veteran entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, and senior executives, and over $400K in perks and services. Teams were eligible for $150K from BDC Venture Capital on Demo Day.
“To get to Montreal we took “the founder” bus which was packed with start up founders,” added Tomas. “Pizza, pop and small informal on the bus radio pitch competition happened before we arrived. The evening was full of great pitches, smell of pop corn and amazing networking session – I ran out of business cards!”
1,400 people were invited to FF’s largest Demo Day yet, offering plenty of opportunities for startups and prospective entrepreneurs, like our students, to pitch, network, and celebrate throughout the event. Learn more about this event.
To learn more about FounderFuel, visit founderfuel.com.
Posted on Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
For more than three decades, the Ontario Colleges Marketing Competition (OCMC) has been challenging Ontario colleges’ business students to take part in a unique skills competition that tests their marketing mettle in a series of exercises that emulate real-world business challenges. This year the competition was hosted by George Brown College in the heart of downtown Toronto. Over 300 students (16 from Algonquin College) and faculty coaches from 12 colleges in Ontario competed 10 events over the course of last Thursday and Friday.
Algonquin College performed exceptionally well, building upon its reputation as a hub of innovative thinkers. Congrats to all who represented AC so well!
- 2nd place in Quiz Bowl, Gabriel Loranger-Gagnon
- 2nd place in Quiz Bowl, Alaina Lau
- 3rd place in Direct Marketing, Evan Foti and Patrick Gaudreault
- 3rd place in Retail Marketing, Hailey Hamilton and Benjamin Valiente
- 4th place in Entrepreneurship, Stephen White and Luke Vucetic
- 5th place in International Marketing, Gabriel Loranger-Gagnon and Alaina Lau
Patrick Gaudreault and Evan Foti, 3rd place inDirect Marketing
Hailey Hamilton and Benjamin Valiente, 3rd place in Retail Marketing
Posted on Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, joined by Cheryl Jensen, President and Chief Executive Officer of Algonquin College, Councillors Cloutier and Fleury, co-chairs of the City’s efforts in Ottawa 2017, and Guy Laflamme, Executive Director of the Ottawa 2017 Bureau, have announced a partnership to create hands-on learning opportunities for students as Ottawa prepares to welcome millions of visitors for Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations. (See photos from the announcement event)
The partnership will seek to create opportunities for students at Algonquin College to participate in the planning, development and delivery of Ottawa 2017 programs that relate to their field of study.
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