{"id":9682,"date":"2015-03-27T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T20:00:04","slug":"embas-helping-to-develop-the-next-generation-of-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/2015\/03\/27\/embas-helping-to-develop-the-next-generation-of-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"EMBAs helping to develop the next generation of entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/desautels\/research\/centres\/dces\/dobson-competitions-events-resources\/dobson-cup\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9683 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/03\/dobson-cup_opt-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"dobson-cup_opt\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/03\/dobson-cup_opt-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/03\/dobson-cup_opt-540x272.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Johan De Leon (EMBA 2011) and Yvan Guibault (EMBA 2014), two very busy entrepreneurs, found the time this week to spend a day with aspiring entrepreneurs. They spent the day judging entries in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/desautels\/research\/centres\/dces\/dobson-competitions-events-resources\/dobson-cup\">Dobson Cup<\/a><\/span>, McGill\u2019s popular start up competition.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t simply judging; they spent a lot of time coaching and advising the entrepreneurs on next steps, challenging their assumptions and helping them understand what questions they need to be asking next. \u00a0As Johan said, \u201cIt was great to be able to talk to them about their projects and use our experience to advise them\u201d.\u00a0 Yvan added, I am very happy to contribute to the development of entrepreneurship. And it was a great experience too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan De Leon (EMBA 2011) and Yvan Guibault (EMBA 2014), two very busy entrepreneurs, found the time this week to spend a day with aspiring entrepreneurs. They spent the day judging entries in the Dobson Cup, McGill\u2019s popular start up competition.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t simply judging; they spent a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,475,4],"tags":[326,324,266,322,21,325,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9684,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions\/9684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}