In the view of transparency, below is an excerpt from an advisory email I sent this month:
CN UPDATES 🎉
- Webinars
- Hosted 5 sessions
- 159 total attendees
- Average attendance rate (attendance/registrations) = 52%
- List of upcoming & past webinars can be found here.
- Current audience size = 2060 subscribers (+8%)
- Started 4 new Habit Accountability Groups with people dialling in from all around the world – Vietnam, Jordan, California, Amsterdam, and Spain.
PERSONAL ENGAGEMENTS 🏆
- Team Facilitator for the first Online Techstars Startup Weekend Canada.
- Spoke on a webinar with 7Geese on preparing your company post-pandemic.
- Spoke to the DevHub/Lighthouse Labs community at a virtual Lunch & Learn on Accessing the Hidden Job Market.
LESSONS 🎓
- Summarized in new blog content:
GRATITUDE WALL 🤝
- Paul Davidescu for an informative webinar on the real estate & mortgage market in the current situation.
- Robert (Bob) St-Jacques and 7Geese for the chance to speak to their community.
- Sophia Pashchenko for facilitating an amazing mindfulness workshop, I’ve come away much more productive.
- Rob Foxall and the amazing organizing committee for involving me in Startup Weekend.
- Kenneth Ip and Startup Grind Richmond for co-hosting 2 workshops.
- Alvin Chan & Allen Devine from Telus for exploring the idea of collaborating on the #DoGoodBusiness Challenge.
- Edson Ishida for offering to support with the #DoGoodBusiness Challenge.
- Jen Vu Hong for inviting me to the discussion with entrepreneurs at BK Holdings, Vietnam on business post-pandemic.
- Tiffany Shen for the great pep talk.
- Jinbin (Jimmy) Yang for teaching me about VIX and short trading.
- Ravi Kumar for considering me as an advisor for MadHawks
- Dung Tran Tri & Hub Langstaff from the Swiss EP team in Vietnam for considering me for ongoing support of FIIS as a remote Entrepreneur-in-Residence for a new Global Entrepreneurship Program that they’re launching in Vietnam.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢
Need a CTO but don’t have the resources to find/bring one on in-house? Check out Moderna Technology Group. They are a group of seasoned technology executives offering CTO Advisory Services for startups.
I had the pleasure of speaking with their CEO, Glen Lee who is also a co-organizer for Startup Grind Richmond. Glen is a seasoned CTO and generous mentor who also believes in giving back to the startup community.
COVID RELATED RESOURCES 💊
- Check out Valerie Song’s Canadian Startup Survival Guide to COVID-19
- BC Emergency Workers Benefit
- Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA)
- Support for Canadian Students/New Grads
- BC’s Restart Plan (looking forward to going camping!)
ASKS 🙏
- Call for speakers: I’m mapping out webinars for Q3. If you’d like to share on a topic, please fill out this speaking form.
- #DoGoodBusiness Challenge is evolving, in-talks with Telus to adjust it to involve more collaboration between Academia, Enterprise, and Startups.
- Likely to be deferred.
- Looking for ideas on how I can mitigate the IP discussion (for what gets built during the challenge) while still encouraging creativity & collaboration.