Is it worth starting a M&A advisory club

I am a student at the University of Waterloo and will be doing the audit for my first co-op. I want to pursue a career in IB and was thinking of starting a M&A advisory club for small businesses. I wanted to ask if this is worth doing or if this is too ambitious and do I try to string along a upper year student who has done M&A advisory to start the club with me. 

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