Advisory Email – August 2021

In the view of transparency, below is an excerpt from an advisory email I sent this month:

UPDATES 🎉
North of AI:

• It’s live! Browse and register the full list of AI events here.

Yukonstruct Local Leaders Business Bootcamp

• Started. 10 diverse companies including a haunted hotel, bouldering gym, muckluck, and more.

XaiPient

• Running list building & cold outreach experiments: commenting on LinkedIn posts with the relevant #’s are pretty effective for finding engaging leads.

Network

• Introductions made: 5
• Introductions received: 5

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LESSONS 🎓

• Kindness vs. Niceness (5 min read)
• The 4 elements of friendship (5 min read)
• Building Presence & Connection via Zoom (1 hr webinar)

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GRATITUDE WALL 🤝

• Speaker suggestions, intros, and feedback for North of AI: Marcos Castillo, Jean-Marc La Flamme, Jason MacFarlane & Morgan Lorimer (MaRS Discovery District), Martha Casey (VoltaAffect), Paul Kishchuck, Dan Johnson, Brian Roberts (BCTech), Emil Imrith, Jake McGregor, Sean Smith.
• The fellow mentors and entrepreneurs who’ve agreed to speak and share their wisdom with the upcoming Local Leaders Business Bootcamp for Yukonstruct.
• Lego, as a de-stressing tool (perks of being a parent-preneur).

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ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢

• BestDecision is live, it’s a tool that’ll help your clients weigh options when deciding if they should purchase your product/service. Try it out for free, if you think of a specific way this could be customized for your business, reach out and I can put you in touch with Natalya to explore.

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ASKS🙏

• I’m working with a stellar team to spin up a new venture studio with a focus on Metaverse projects. Got any interesting metaverse resources to share or bring to my attention? Or simply interested in chatting about what the metaverse is/isn’t, I’d love to hear from you.

Next: September & October 2021 Advisory Newsletter