A growing number of colleges are dangling merit aid as bait for prospective students who can raise the school’s profile. @ronlieber on what parents should know: https://t.co/PCfl0bhK61
Gen Z traits I admire:
- they are not camera shy
- they know how to market themselves (tiktok, insta)
- creativity is valued from a young age (everyone's bio reads: influencer / artist / poet / etc)
feels like the next-gen of entrepreneurs will be bigger than ever
Prototype the absolute simplest version of your dream product.
Use it yourself first. Also include teammates, friends & fools.
Then pause for a week.
Do you miss your product?
If the answer is “yes”, you are onto something.
A practical heuristic for future value.
It’s been a wonderfully exciting few days for DMV and the Black Innovation Fellowship. We were honoured to have @Shopify, @BMO and The @cdnwomenfdn join us alongside @RyersonDMZ, both at #CollisionConf yesterday, and at our launch event this morning.
#DMVentures#DreamTO#BIF
From access to a broad network to accommodation and programming, together with @DreamMakerVC, @Shopify, @BMO, the Canadian Women's Foundation and @RyersonU, we're supporting #startups led by Black entrepreneurs across the nation.
Learn more 👇🏼#BIF https://t.co/jKVT2WY2FO
Stages when you're starting something...
1/ This might be a thing
2/ This is TOTALLY going to be a thing
3/ This is not a thing
4/ OK no this might be a thing
5/ Who T F am I to make this a thing
6/ I'm so awesome
7/ I'm an idiot
8/ HOly shit
9/ OMG
Go back to 1; repeat
Creating something is hard. It could be a new business, a film, or writing a book.
Trust your instincts. The world will remind you what you cannot do. Until you do it.
If software is already eating the world today, and only ONE out of 400 people can create software (I have receipts!), then imagine how different the world could be if we empower ONE HUNDRED out of 400 people to create it!
Why would we NOT try to do that!?