StartupReady

Your Path to Innovation & Entrepreneurship

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Why StartupReady?

StartupReady is a program that will initiate you into the world of entrepreneurship and innovation. Designed for students from all faculties and programs,this experience will help you develop your understanding of what it takes to be innovative and entrepreneurial while enhancing your employability skills for the startup world and beyond. It doesn't get much better than that.

How we do it

An entrepreneurial mindset is fueled by curiosity, geared towards problem-solving, and driven by a desire to bring about change in the world. And so in completing this certificate, you will:

Build your entrepreneurial mindset and skills in the areas of agile management, presentation and storytelling, customer discovery, prototyping and design thinking
Expand your network with like-minded peers and industry leaders through collaborating with students across disciplines

Earn your StartupReady certificate at your own pace during your time at Concordia.

How it works

01

Interactive Workshops

Complete a series of six FutureBound/GradProSkills workshops on topics such as design thinking, customer discovery, and entrepreneurship.

Complete throughout the academic year:

Intro to Design Thinking
Intro to Customer Discovery/User Experience
Entrepreneurship 101
Prototyping and Usability Testing
Practicing Agility: Lean Startup and SCRUM Basics
Pitching

Undergraduate students: register here

Graduate Students: register here

02

Startup Course

You will have four weeks to complete How to Build a Startup: The Lean LaunchPad course, which includes four weekly online, 1.5-hour facilitated check-ins with the District 3 team.

Session dates:
Fridays, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. | March 11, March 18, March 25 & April 1, 2022

Being StartupReady

Upon completion of both steps of Concordia’s StartupReady program, you will earn your StartupReady certificate and be ready to contribute to Montreal’s vibrant start-up community, and beyond.