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Author Archives: vickisaunders
Ontario’s EdTech Innovation Ecosystem
Startup Genome placed Toronto as the 4th best place to start a new tech company behind Silicon Valley, New York, and London shattering Canada’s reputation as a risk-averse, low innovation economy. Area startups, who provides profiles, rankings and data on … Continue reading
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A quote from Hillary’s final speech as Secretary of State
“And that is the final lever that I want to highlight briefly. Because the jury is in, the evidence is absolutely indisputable: If women and girls everywhere were treated as equal to men in rights, dignity, and opportunity, we would … Continue reading
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Redefining Winning
I’ve been thinking a lot about our financing models and touched on it briefly in my previous post The SheEO Returns. Our current VC model says to expect 1 winner out of 10. Seriously? Who would design a system where … Continue reading
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On being your own client..
I had a call this week from a young woman who is part of a new SheEO network that Kaela Bree and I are organizing. She was with her group of 4 other young SheEO’s and she wanted to know … Continue reading
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The SheEO Returns…
I’ve been passionate about supporting women-led businesses for over a decade. In 2000 I was running an incubator and venture fund and excited to be able to fund people’s dreams. However, in the first three months, we only had 4 … Continue reading
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Looking for questions instead of answers
I was just speaking with my friend Bjorn Larsson from Foresight Partners in Sweden in one of our regular monthly check-ins. One of the brilliant things he said was “When I was young I was looking for answers. Now I … Continue reading
Why do we use the term social business?
A lot of people have been asking me lately what I mean by social business or social entrepreneurs. How is that different from a regular entrepreneur? I don’t love the ‘social’ moniker to be honest. I actually think business, in … Continue reading
The challenge of selling into the K-12 Education sector
I’ve been working with a lot of edtech startups in the past 18 months. In the Ottawa-Toronto-Waterloo region alone I’ve seen about 100 companies/entrepreneurs who would say they are in the edtech space. But, when you look deeply there are … Continue reading
Failure?
Another interesting insight I had in the past few days was around failure. Everyone is talking about how we need to teach ourselves to feel ok with failing. But what is failure? A women at the Intersection event talked about … Continue reading
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Are instructional videos dead?
I was in Silicon Valley this past weekend and caught up with Next36 Alums who are now in the Imagine K-12 incubator. We swapped updates and insights on our shared passion for the edtech space. For those of you who … Continue reading
