My collection of insights, presentations, experiences, and random thoughts on startups, creativity, learning and my city.
Unstoppable: The Power of TEDx
The first ever TEDxSummit in Doha starts a new chapter for the TEDx community, built around new friendships, peer mentoring, and a shared mission to grow a powerful global community that can activate ideas like no other on the planet.
Stay Out of the Way
The best thing that we can do to support entrepreneurs is to stay out of their way - letting them focus on their companies, their customers, and on building something great. As startups succeed, that's how we'll shape our communities. [via Startup Canada]
Go Great or Go Home
The world doesn't simply need big ideas. Great startup communities empower entrepreneurs with a vision to launch something good and build it into something great over time.
Investing in Startup Culture
Startup Edmonton and our new startup space is about more than just investing in tech startups. It's about spreading startup culture and infusing entrepreneurial thinking into our city's DNA.
Startups: It's Not a Race, It's Parkour
Slow and steady wins the race. It's a phrase often used in business. But to be a startup entrepreneur, I don't think you need to be built to last a marathon. Instead, I think entrepreneurs should be built to play the game of parkour.
On a (New) Mission
Thoughts on departing my startup on a quest to cultivate a creative entrepreneur ecosystem in my own backyard.
Upping the "Game" in Learning Games
Games have the power to engage kids and games do have a place in the classroom. With educators seeking out more effective ways to engage kids in the classroom, more are turning to game-based learning as a solution. This has created a huge opportunity for a new breed of educational game.
City of Champions 2.0
How a new generation of creative, innovative and social entrepreneurs can build on Edmonton's past, re-invest existing wealth and expertise, and establish a new pipeline where the renewable resource is creativity.
An Ecosystem for Creative Innovation
How can we take the existing building blocks of our arts community - artists, creators, investors, organizations - and create a competitive ecosystem built to amplify and accelerate artistic and creative innovation?