Insights by Ryerson University's John MacRitchie, Platform Calgary CEO Terry Rock, Spark Centre CEO Sherry Colbourne

NACO Academy Podcast

English - April 14, 2020 11:00 - 12 minutes - 8.58 MB
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Replay of Part 3 of the NACO Roundtable on Incubators, Accelerators, and Entrepreneurial Activity

"The bigger concern we're really seeing is founders that are pre-revenue or at that very early stage of development. They're the ones that are, are at this point, falling through the gap" John MacRitchie, Assistant Vice-President, Zone Learning and Strategic Initiatives at Ryerson University

"Let's move at the speed of trust. Let's move things and audit later if we have to... when we're talking to our institutional partners in government, that's the sentiment that we should all be echoing" Terry Rock, CEO at Platform Calgary

"These are very fragile startups and whatever we do, we need to not make this journey even more fragile for them. Because we definitely will lose some along the way" Sherry Colbourne, CEO at Spark Centre

Originally Recorded on April 9, 2020. Click here to join future roundtables.