Kamil Khan's Sauder Blog

Start-Up weekend, a launch-a-start-up-in-54-hours event has begun at UBC yesterday evening. Being hosted by Entrepreneurship at UBC and featuring accomplished judges such as Mozilla Labs Director David Ascher, Venture Capitalist Ray Torresan, and CEO and Co-Founder of Battlefy Jason Xu, among others. This year’s startup weekend is said to be technology-focused, as is apparent with the 1:1 ratio of business-oriented and software/hardware-oriented participants.

It is encouraging to see UBC foster and embrace the entrepreneurial spirit found in the thousands of bright, forward-thinking students which attend here. Entrepreneurs are the driving force of Canadian job creation, innovation, and economic growth. In fact, the over 1 million small businesses in Canada employ over 48 percent of Canada’s total workforce.

In my opinion, it is vital for UBC, and Sauder in particular, to put a strong emphasis on the power and importance with entrepreneurship. Most of Sauder’s most accomplished alumni are entrepreneurs themselves, and the more successful start-ups that come out of UBC, the more inspiring and reputable the school will become.