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May 10, 2016

Two teams of student entrepreneurs representing Northern Caribbean University (NCU) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) out-performed their counterparts in major worldwide universities and placed in the top ten of the 2016 International Business Model Competition (IBMC) at the Microsoft Ventures campus in Seattle, Washington, in the United States on April 29 and 30.

Forty-two teams from scores of universities and business schools across the globe, including NCU’s Guardana Inc., and UWI’s team, Sweelevia, competed for the grand cash prize of US$30,000 and the prestigious IBMC trophy.

Guardana team members Princess…

April 5, 2016

Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has, yet again, come away as the winner of the National Business Model Competition (NBMC) for the third consecutive year with student-entrepreneur team Guardanna securing a cash prize of J$2m and an all-expense paid trip to represent Jamaica at the upcoming International Business Model Competition (IBMC).

The Mandeville-based tertiary institution’s team members Princess Shakes and Natoy Allen made their winning presentation to a panel of private-sector judges in the final round of the national competition last Friday (April 1, 2016), beating 12 other teams from four universities.

Runners…

March 22, 2016

Students from four of Jamaica’s universities are set to compete against each other for national honours in the annual National Business Model Competition (NBMC).  The competition is to be held over two days, March 31 and April 1, at the Knutsford Court Hotel.
 
The competition is in its third year, and is being staged under the auspices of the Development Bank of Jamaica’s (DBJ), Jamaica Venture Capital Programme (JVCP), and the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ), with financial support from the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB), Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and Jamaica’s financial community, including…

February 28, 2016

The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) and the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ) have announced the staging of the third, Annual National Business Model Competition (NBMC).  The NBMC is specifically for students enrolled at the local universities.  

The announcement was made at a press briefing held at the offices of the PSOJ, on Wednesday, February 17th, and was attend by a wide cross section of faculty, students and supporters from the participating universities – University of the West Indies, Northern Caribbean University, University of Technology, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, and the…

February 5, 2016

Jamaica's  venture capital eco-system,  global trends in venture capital and private equity, current and future technological innovations  and the collapse of legacy thinking, are among the stimulating and high level topics for the  Development Bank of Jamaica’s (DBJ) Venture Capital Conference 2016 from March 7-9, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, Kingston.
 
Centred on the theme ‘The Power of Smart Capital… expanding the financial landscape, fuelling innovation, driving entrepreneurship’, the event is an exciting calendar item for venture capital stakeholders such as fund managers, entrepreneurs, businesses, investors,…