For this thirteenth episode, we welcome Mehdi Laieb from Ombrages, a lighting engineering firm that enables cities around the world to shine at night, to discuss the benefits of doing business in the Beauce, living in the shadow of large B2B companies and his perspective as an immigrant from France.
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Timeline – Lighting up Quebec, from Beauce to Montreal
0:00 – Introduction
1:00 – Introducing Kanevas
1:30 – What kind of bread are you, Mehdi Laieb?
1st section – Earning your bread – 3:00
2:30 – Ombrages services
3:30 – 80% of lighting in Montreal done by Ombrages
4:30 – Le plan Lumière de Montréal, Saint-Jérôme –
6:00 – The impact of light in winter cities
9:00 – Jacques Cartier Bridge, the wow!
10:45 – The impact of basketball on the culture of Ombrages
13:00 – Mehdi’s journey from the Eiffel Tower to the Louvre
15:45 – Arrival at Beauce de France
17:30 – A clear objective upon arrival: to become an entrepreneur
2nd section – Butter money – 19:00
22:30 – How does a call for tenders work?
25:30 – Influences of Quebec values
29:00 – Beauce Entrepreneur School
29:00 – L’ADN entrepreneuriale Beauceronne (ex. Famille Bernier)
30:00 – Working in the shadow of Moment Factory et cie
33:50 – Differences between contracts here and abroad
38:00 – Walk with those you want to walk with
40:00 – The challenges of the labor shortage (Engineers in Uber…)
41:00 – Success rate 1st generation vs 2nd generation
44:30 – We need an employee-employer commitment
3rd section – A lot of work to do – 46:00
47:00 – Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur: the lifestyle trap
52:00 – Choose your partners carefully, don’t split the risk
54:00 – The arrival of professional basketball in Montreal
