By Peter Hanschke
Welcome to the second post on my journey toward building a mobile app. In my last post, I talked about why I decided to write my own app. In a nutshell, I’ve never had the opportunity to product manage myself through the process of app development, so I thought this would be an interesting exercise. I don’t plan on revealing the nature of my app until the last post, so, until then, I’m charting the process along the way.
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By Alexandra Reid
Maple Leaf Angels is working with Canadian Women in Technology to create investment opportunities between angels and women-led startup companies.
More than 60 angel investors, entrepreneurs, partners and sponsors filled a room in Toronto last week to hear about why such investments are vital for Canada and to listen to pitches from some high-potential early-stage technology companies led by women.
In her speech, Dr. Cindy Gordon, a startup founder and former VC who also co-founded MLA, directed the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance and chaired CanWit, brought some valuable context to the conversation.
“In order for us to really be successful in supporting women in technology, we have to recognize that we have some fundamental issues that are catastrophic to this country,” said Dr. Gordon. “This is not a women’s issue. It’s a business imperative.”
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By Alexandra Reid
As a regular feature, we provide our readers with a roundup of some of the best articles we have read in the past week. On the podium this week are Mark Suster, Joseph Jaffe, Milo Yiannopoulos, Marla Capozzi and Ari Kellen, David Meerman Scott, Peter Cohen and Mikael Cho.
Entrepreneurshit: the blog post on what it’s really like
What’s it really like to be an entrepreneur? Mark Suster tells first-time wantrapreneurs that it’s far from the glamorous life depicted in the press.
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By Francis Moran
Edit: Edited to add quotes from Victoria Lennox
The results of the largest consultation ever undertaken within the community of Canadian entrepreneurs and their supporters will be unveiled in a series of six cross-country news conferences on Tuesday when Startup Canada releases its national Action Plan. The plan is the outcome of a five-month national tour that Startup Canada conducted between May and September this year that touched down in all 10 provinces and altogether engaged more than 20,000 Canadians in person and another 50,000 online.
Several common themes emerged from the more than 200 town hall meetings, expert discussions, forums and other events that Startup Canada and its more than 300 partners organised during the tour. These themes and the actions that entrepreneurs all across the country said need to be taken are captured in Startup Blueprints, an ambitious new online platform that will also be unveiled on Tuesday. Startup Blueprints shares the reflections and ideas that Startup Canada heard from entrepreneurs who participated in hundreds of conversations across the country. It paints a clear path that Canadians passionate about entrepreneurship can follow together to cultivate a more vibrant and successful entrepreneurial culture in Canada.
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By Tony Bailetti
This is part two of a two-part series that throws the spotlight on the need to develop prescriptive rules and practitioner-oriented models that can help technology startups operate globally upon or shortly after inception.
The lessons in this series are extracted from reading the literature and examining 21 companies that globalized early and rapidly. They were first published in the October issue of the TIM Review, a journal that provides free and unlimited online access to high-quality articles about technology and global entrepreneurship.
Part one covered the lessons learned from the literature. This post will share the lessons learned from examining publicly available information on 21 startups in 12 countries that globalized early and rapidly.
The three main findings are as follows:
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By Peter Hanschke
