What it takes to be a student entrepreneur 🎓

What it takes to be a student entrepreneur 🎓 | The Constellation

Published: Sat, 12/19/20

• December 2020 •

Entrepreneurship in academia:

where innovation and ambition meet

Being at university means that I am surrounded by talented people: those who can solve complex mathematical problems, those who understand politics, those who paint, those who have brilliant ideas... and those who act on those ideas.

Student entrepreneurs combine many of those characteristics, as they demonstrate passion, creativity and initiative. They use their university environments as catalysts and springboards for their startups.

Two 19-year-old student entrepreneurs from HEC Montreal shared with us the details of their 2020 entrepreneurial journey as they launched their startup Entrepotes. Read below...

How can university-based incubators help?

Two student executives from McGill's Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship met with us to discuss their mission: to support student entrepreneurs as they seek to build innovative companies with a purpose.

Read what they have to say!

A passion and a career?

2 questions to uncover your passion -- and turn it into a career | Noeline Kirabo

Most students and young adults have at a passion or a big dream. Sometimes, they could turn these into careers and have a real impact, make a real change for the better.

At Stardust, we support and empower entrepreneurs who want to make social and environmental impact. We want their dreams of a better world to come true!

If you had all the time and money in the world, what would you spend your time doing?
What makes you happy or gives you the deepest sense of fulfillment?

Find your passion, your calling, and be unstoppable!

What's going on @ Stardust...

> Our new name, Stardust Startups, and simplified logo (see the signature below) put the focus more on the startups we support and allow us to fit better into the impact investing and venture capital world. Our activities remain the same!

> Ihonwa Sylvester from Educate a Child just received a scholarship opportunity for a program at the Lagos Business School in Nigeria. Congratulations! 🎉

> Caeli Energie has won the 11th edition of Innotrophées (a contest rewarding the best innovations in the southeastern part of France) in the "Startup category". They received 20,000 €!

> Tigoun (new fall 2020 project we're supporting) reached their crowdfunding goal recently, but are striving to raise more!

Check it out!

> You may have seen 6 fall 2020 projects announced in our "Fall Updates" newsletter, but that we are only raising money to support 5 of them. Founderworks/Sustainabro has been put on "pause" as of now due to extenuating circumstances.

> A few people missed the cutoff date, so we are relaunching our t-shirt/sweatshirt campaigns on December 21st. They will run for 20 days. Don't worry you'll get notified again. 😊

> We are helping reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as they guide our criteria for applications and provide a framework for common values between entrepreneurs and impact investors. Watch the 15-minute video below...

Stardust and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Thanks for reading and happy holidays!

Eléonore Brocart

Constellation Writer

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