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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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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
Welcoming in a New Era
Yesterday we had an Ascension Intention Party for any of our friends who wanted to come and share their intentions for the new era we are entering. It was a full day from 10:30am until 8p with a solid flow … Continue reading
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