Moose Jaw Times-Herald: A great opportunity for young entrepreneurs

2014 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award accepting applications

Joel Pinel, CEO of WOW Factor Media and winner
of the 2013 Business Development Bank of Canada
(BDC) Young Entrepreneur Award, stands in a room
 in the Moose Jaw office on Feb. 12, 2014.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Even if Joel Pinel hadn’t won the 2013 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award, the experience would’ve been worth it.

“It’s great for sure. We’ve benefitted quite a bit from it. The exposure that we got during the competition was very big,” said Pinel, CEO of WOW Factor Media and winner of the 2013 Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Young Entrepreneur Award. “We even got national coverage from it and our business being out of Saskatchewan but distributing to Western Canada, it helped us big time in that respect.”

Applications for the 2014 award are now open and the deadline to enter is April 3.

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