S1-E9 - MakerLaunch A Startup Growth Program for Makers with Jean Michel Lemieux, Simon Nehme and Natalie Raffoul

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Episode 9

For this episode we’ll be introducing you to the University of Ottawa’s MakerLaunch program as we: chat with several different people about entrepreneurship, look at the program and chat with the founders of the first cohort.

Time Stamp Episode 9

1:14 : Introduction to today’s episode pertaining to the MakerLaunch Program.
4:08- A discussion with two of the the MakerLaunch Founding Partners (Simon Nehme who is an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor and Jean-Michel Lemieux, CTO at Shopify) Natalie Raffoul, Managing Attorney at Brion Raffoul, and our Jacques Beauvais, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, on entrepreneurship.
13:20- The pitches from the first MakerLaunch cohort.
18:15- A discussion with Midia Shick Hassan, Manager of MakerLaunch.
25:25- A discussion with the co-founders of Wandure: Ali Kazal and Ismail Benmbarek.
33:56- A discussion with the co-founders of Noibu: Robert Boukine, Filip Slatinac and Kailin Noivo.
42:55- A discussion with Tunch Akkaya, CEO of GameStrat.

Produced by uOttawa Faculty of Engineering.

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