Speaking at Waterloo Entrepreneur Week
Stephen Woods (the director of Google Waterloo), Omar Ismail (co-founder of ProductWiki) and myself will be talking at the Entrepreneur week event on strategic financing in Waterloo on Thursday, October 9th.
Here’s the link: http://www.entrepreneurweek.crowdvine.com/talks/show/2067
If all goes as planned, Omar and I will fight on stage, embarassing ourselves in front of Stephen, whom I really respect. That’s the plan, at least.
No, the topic is something that is important and dear to my heart: when your startup needs financing to realize its vision, how do you plan for and find the right kind of investors? I will talk about the approach that Well.ca has taken in the past, what works, and how to apply our hard-earned lessons for yourselves.
If you’ve ever said “how come all the other cheesy startups get funded while I have to cut pop-tarts in half to save on meal costs” (I know I have) then this talk is for you.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I like the cutting the Poptarts in half image. Reminds me of my university days. Sounds like this will be a good talk for us to cover at The Record.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Ah, good old Waterloo. I kind of miss being there. I wish we had these kinds of talks while I was there! I would’ve jumped on the entrepreneur train a lot earlier!
October 7th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
since i live in vancouver, will i be able to see this talk online?
by the way, thank you for the informative blog and congratulations on the success of well.ca