Your customers are the keys to your business’ success. But when it comes to understanding them — particularly in times of rapid change — there’s no linear path. Though it may be difficult to resist the urge to rush into diagrams and wireframes, personas and journey maps, even usability testing, sometimes you need to “Go…
Angel investment is a key milestone for many startup entrepreneurs — that important moment when they can boost their company’s prospects with external validation, funding, and mentoring. But like every aspect of modern business, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted angel investors, leaving many early-stage entrepreneurs wondering if there will still be that financial lifeline available to their emerging company? …
Innovators are creating new pathways to healthcare. As a specialist in the industry, Andy Donald, understands that delivering new solutions for patient care could drastically change lives. Donald, a Certified Geriatric Pharmacist and CEO of The Health Depot, is committed to changing the face of pharmacy by helping patients take control of their health with…
Madison and Jenessa Olson are repurposing their resources to make a meaningful impact amid COVID-19. The co-founders of Southwestern Ontario startup STMNT are tackling disrupted times with the same resourceful mentality that gained them early traction and success in the fashion space, as they establish their place in the sanitation game. Recovery within our innovation…
How do you interview, hire, and onboard a new employee without ever meeting them face to face? In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s a question many of our companies will have to prepare for, as they look to rebuild and grow their teams amidst uncertain ongoing social distancing protocols. Fortunately, there are experts…
It’s only been three weeks since Mona Lam-Deslippe turned on the news, to realize the overwhelming need for personal protective equipment. Every moment since then, she’s been running to address it for the sake of essential service workers, who to this day, remain on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Lam-Deslippe, who leads London-based…
As the coronavirus spreads, and individuals are urged to stay within their own environments, select businesses remain among the only spaces still open to the public. As a result, those workers deemed ‘essential’, shift to the front lines of a critical period in public health. This pandemic is evolving quickly; so too must the entrepreneurs…
London and Southwestern Ontario will recover from COVID-19. It will take time, and we will face many unprecedented challenges along the way. We are resilient, as Canadians, as a community, and as an innovation economy, and we will come back from this global crisis. To ensure that happens, we need industry and government partners to continue…
From closing campus doors to opening up online forums, academia has been running at top speed to shift to a new normal in the midst of a pandemic. With physical distancing practices in full effect, the classroom has gone virtual. This is familiar territory for Sarnia-based startup, Online & Digital Education Academy (ODEA), who has…
COVID-19 has forced Canadian healthcare to adapt at an unprecedented rate, creating an opportunity for new solutions and technologies to drive better crisis responses and outcomes. With innovators leading the dialogue, the haze is finally beginning to clear on the next steps to tackle the global coronavirus outbreak; out of the chaos, measured innovation emerges.…