Growing the next generation of founders and funders in Canada
One of my current ProjectsProjects
Current Projects
[[Venture Scouts]] [[2020]]
[[Cobuilding]] [[2020]]
[[Moa Party]] and [[Connecting to the Agora]] [[2021]]
Backlog
[[Custom Bags in Vancouver]] – I want to test my [[Ship IP Not Product]] ideas, and make a template for forming a group, designing a bag, and finding local makers and supply chain to make items locally, on demand
[[Community ISP]] – can we form co-ops and collectives and create community ISPs?
[[Vancouver Local Makers Directory]] – a list of made in [[Vancouve.... There is a DiscourseDiscourse
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Discourse for Teams
There is a new (late 2020) Discourse for Teams offering that starts at $20/month for up to 5 team members on a fully private forum.
Discourse for Te... forum at https://venturescouts.ca which anyone can join.
There are a variety of members-only groups on the site as well, including Pitch Deck Review.
To Do
- TODOTODO
Mainly, things will just link here.
Kick off peer mentoring: get members to post a peer profile with the topics that they’re interested in providing peer mentorship on, as well as how to get in touch / book some time (e.g. Calendly link) - TODOTODO
Mainly, things will just link here.
We’re discussing what a venture scout fund would look like in Canada