QVN Toronto - Pathways to Entrepreneurship

People often think the only road to entrepreneurship is creating an idea, validating it (hopefully), and starting your own company. What we don’t often think about is the multiple ways we can be an entrepreneur. From starting or buying a business, to creating a new venture inside a corporation, taking over the family business or and even building a successful side hustle while you work full time.

Join Queen’s Venture Network (Toronto) on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at Dentons for an evening of mini Ted’esque talks from a range of entrepreneurs as they tell their story of how they started their pathway into entrepreneurship and the lessons learned along the way.

Each speaker will have seven minutes to tell their tale. This will be followed by Q&A from the audience.

SPEAKERS

THE FAMILY BUSINESS

Peter Willson, BSc(Eng)'92 

Chairman and CEO,

Willson International

THE SUCCESSION PLAN

Lauren Kouba, BCom'05, AMBA'13

President,

PIVOTAL Payroll

THE SIDE HUSTLE

Cyrus Symoom, BCom'15 

Managing Partner, Explora Partners

Director, Q4Q Beer Company

THE CORPORATE ENTREPRENEUR

Meg McQuillan, BScH'12 

Co-founder,

Get Digs

BUILD DOMAIN EXPERIENCE AND LEAP

Steve Monk, BSc(Eng)'88 

CEO and Founder,

CEO Law

FROM IP TO COMMERCIALIZATION

Shelby Yee, BSc'16 

Co-founder and CEO,