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It’s Not Only About Flipping a Switch But Creating the Right Post-Pandemic Conditions for Growth
“Restarting the growth economy will take more than lifting shelter-in-place orders. It will mean rebuilding the ecosystem and environment to reignite businesses and individuals to take long-term risks again. Indeed, rebuilding consumer confidence will be the hardest it has ever been.”
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Co-Founder, inuka: Robin van Dalen
(1) Who are you and what do you do?I am Robin van Dalen, co-founder and CEO of Inuka and I work to make effective mental support accessible for everyone. (2) In two sentences or less, describe how you participate in the startup ecosystem.I run a startup that connects certified life coaches with people who struggle…
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Featured Startup: inuka
(1) Describe your startup.We make effective mental support accessible for everyone. We do that by offering a burnout and fallout prevention program to companies. With a confidential 5-minute well being scan per employee you can see what % of employees are at risk for burnout. We connect them with a certified human coach via chat, anytime anywhere.…
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The Creative Economy: Why The Pandemic Has Demonstrated The Need For Creativity
“With so many small businesses dying due to lack of government support, the dreams and ideals of millions of creatives are being snuffed out. It is not only those small business owners and their employees who are being directly impacted but those creatives whose ideas and concepts are only now forming.”
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Founder, RealEats: Dan Wise
(1) Who are you and what do you do?Dan Wise, founder and CEO of NY based meal delivery startup, RealEats (2) In two sentences or less, describe how you participate in the startup ecosystem.I’m an entrepreneur who has launched several startups. I thrive on building stuff and love helping turn amazing ideas into thriving businesses.…
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Featured Startup: RealEats
(1) Describe your startup.RealEats is a mission driven subscription meal company that makes it quick and simple for people to eat real food. We solve for the inherent trade-off between health and convenience by making nutri-delicious meals from never-processed, responsibly-sourced ingredients that stay fresh for 7 days and can be heated in boiling water in…
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Individual Adaptability: How Do We Encourage More of It In The Face of a Society Driven By Conformity?
“From a social and economic structure perspective, we as humans have built up our current society based on conformity rather than adaptability. Rules and regulations are designed to ensure not only compliance but conformity as well…Unfortunately, though, the technological change that we have seen over the past number of decades is fundamentally causing a rethink…
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Founder, Zeitdice: Michael Schwanzer
(1) Who are you and what do you do? I am Michael Schwanzer: dad, husband, immigrant (from Austria to Canada), inventor of a camera that does not run out of battery or memory and founding CEO of ZEITDICE INC. (2) In two sentences or less, describe how you participate in the startup ecosystem. I try…
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Featured Startup: Zeitdice
(1) Describe your startup. Our smart timelapse camera enables cost effective data-based decision making in real estate, agriculture and the parking industry. ZEITDICE uses patent-pending proprietary hardware that takes less than a minute to setup and delivers insights without expensive camera installation. (2) What inspired the creation of the startup? Timelapse photography enables humans to…
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Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
“If we focus specifically on entrepreneurship, the fundamental question that drives the conversation of who can be an entrepreneur is whether or not it is an innate characteristic or whether it can be taught. While this question has always been a much discussed topic, particularly as entrepreneurship has taken flight over the past several decades,…