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@jsngr Bro we finally managed to get rid of that junk and you're trying to bring it back already???!!!

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Who in Canada is doing cheque writing at the first meeting? Who in Canada is investing in people + ideas not data + markets? Talked to a lot of Canadian VCs, wonderful people, great finance folks, but they're not investing in people + ideas. Who is investing in people + ideas?

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If any Waterloo students want help staying in CANADA/finding an epic startup job/start a company in CANADA, HMU! Can help troubleshoot visas too 😌✨

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If any Waterloo students want help staying in SF/finding an epic startup job/start a company, HMU! Can help troubleshoot visas too 😌✨

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btw don't really give af if you're a Waterloo grad, a U of T grad or you went to Vancouver Community College. If you're Canadian and you want to hit it out of the park, call me. Literally know how to build $781MM ARR from scratch. Will teach you: if you're VERY serious.

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If any Waterloo students want help staying in CANADA/finding an epic startup job/start a company in CANADA, HMU! Can help troubleshoot visas too 😌✨

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We asked Jessica, @TheFirstLadyy , who has scaled startups from literally zero to millions multiple times... "When it comes to People, what do you think is fundamental knowledge for founders just starting out?" She always nails it! Thanks Jess!! 🥰

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Lunch is served

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@woolblossom star at eating croissant

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Didn't get into YC np.. call me (908) 585-1446

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@ParikPatelCFA You're usually pretty funny, but that one was solid A+

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada Inc. has some pretty decent office space. 🦦

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We're now two quarters into building ascent. A few observations: On average, there's a lot of ambition around. However, the problem with communicating that ambition runs deep. A large swath of the folks we meet are simply struggling to break down and then convey that ambition

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Spending September in Vancouver. Beginning the process of spinning up the west coast office. Will be hosting regular office hours c/o @bmann , maybe a meetup with @tokifyi ? Should be fun! If you're in BC and want to chat, founders @ascent .ca with deck & stage.

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New Builds: you seem nice can you give $ for our event? Me: yes.

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Lot of people showed up for this battle. @535Toronto is such a bop. 🦦

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Gonna be at Lakeview Diner till around 11:45pm est you bring pitch decks, questions, extremely unrealistic unit economics etc etc I bring the pain gl

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This is really cool... So Serge Godin (who has a very nice smile btw) founded @CGI_Global in Montreal. It did well (he made around 3 billion USD) and of course, a family office was created. The sculpture outside their office is extremely rad.

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Working hard building innovative solutions @newsystems_

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Tried that coffee shop the minion person recommend. Decent recommendation. 🦦

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She's coming in strong today. 🤩

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dont sleep on waterloo frfr

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Here is what one of our founders said about us: "You just have to work with ascent. I remember doing a live demo of my product to the ascent team at a networking event because they were curious - not realizing the impact they'd have on my startup from then on. Having ascent in

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Awesome morning with @AlexMcIsaac333 - expecting great things from @Northside__VC !! Homeboy is all in on Canadian innovation, all he needs is founders with large scale global ambition, let's get them to him. ❤️ ❤️🦦🇨🇦

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@ascent_hi

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Hello, new followers, welcome to the party. This Twitter account is mostly about unhinged raw skills maxing, so feel free to unfollow now if you're going to be annoyed by that. Who are we? We're a bunch of founders, operators, engineers, designers, and lawyers who decided

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Lived this boom/bust cycle twice now, will be the 3rd our team has been through, it's not pretty. Generally there is a huge spirt in folks founding startups through and out of it! Start a startup. Now is the time!!!! The time is now!!!! 🦦

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@anpaure

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cs career fair cancelled at community college because no companies reached out

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This @ElevateTechCA party is very elevated.

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If you're grinding rn, 3:30pm est Sunday August 25th like these two, let's see it!! 🦦

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@ascent_hi

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some nerds we're friends with are thinking about doing an API hackathon. Toronto in November for funsies, they are collecting interest:

(API/Infra/Data Hackathon) Toronto November 2024

Collecting interest for our API Infra Hackathon

docs.google.com

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Oh shi... It's getting real over at @535Toronto ! Lets go! @saleh_digital is such a G.

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Let the demos begin….

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@ascent_hi

5 months

We get some flack because our sugar momma is a huge old law firm. McMillan, doing startup stuff feels sus for sure, but here is the real deal: @TJHisLaw and his leadership team genuinely believe in helping make Canada better. Retiring having just worked at the firm is not in the

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We have our first founder moving to Canada from the States to launch their startup with our startup foundry. Candadaaaland! The first thing I will do is march them over to Vin and Fahd for indoctrination classes. Reverse brain drain. It's working, folks. LET'S GO!

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Come thru. Will be here for the next 3.5/4hrs. (43.6496718, -79.4152103)

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completed 192 diet cokes today 🦦

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🦦 @NovusOrg

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People often asking me for the inside scoop on 535 and @fahdananta - by way of explaining - @maloriek paints the picture incredibly well. Our take: A great group of people executing good things. 🏄🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️

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Drake is freed but the damage is done 🍅🍅🍅🍅

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We can't let them beat us. Prepare the beaver army. 🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦 🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦 🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦🦦🇨🇦

Jordan Thibodeau

@JWthib

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@eyeslasho In your face @ascent_hi ! Love always, jordan

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In Brampton, got don't drain stuck in my head...

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@ascent_hi

3 months

Let's all root for @rootlyhq - Great Canadian startup, they are IN THE GRIND. Send them happy vibes, bake them cakes, take them over some sativa, whatever, just support them!!! Let's all root for rootly!!!!!

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don't cheat just play, it's more fun that way 🦦

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Founder: Cool, so how long is the program? Me: Till you IPO. Founder:

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Thank you kindly to Mr. @AaronAnandji who has been an invaluable resource!!! Montreal is seriously cool! Looking forward to build here in earnest! 🦦

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@ascent_hi

2 months

I'll be tomorrow days old when I go to MTL for the next time will have an irl AMA by way of tweeting a location for a few hours at some point if you are a founder who is founding, founded, foundering etc feel free to email founders @ascent .ca

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@ascent_hi

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"we're a group of friends and strangers who get together to explore the magic that can happen when creative people get together in a room" very cool @soto_place / @lychkel

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3 months

Wish you could hear @internetvin tonight. Dude is spitting bars and taking names. Vin is hard as nails. 😈🦦

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ascent Montreal is ascendant 🦦

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Enough. Of. This. Bullshit. What he said is right. What we need to do is change it. Find the most 5head, imaginative, ambitious Canadian's you know. Send them to me. Time to put an end to this BS. 🦦

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@chamath

3 months

The biggest brain drain in the world is the one from Canada to the US. As a result, the biggest and most successful mafia in the world isn’t the PayPal Mafia in America but the ex-Canadian Mafia in the US. From Berkshire to SpaceX and many companies in between, there are so

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A BIG THANK YOU FOR RUNNING TWITTER YESTERDAY @MitchWainer !! What a friend. 😘🦦

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How to do it Right: Legal Necessities of Launching a Tech Start-up - This is written by some of the amazing lawyers at the mothership @McMillanLLP 🦦 (luv you mom😘)

How to do it Right: Legal Necessities of Launching a Tech Start-up

An overview of the necessary legal components of tech start-ups.

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Tuesday 16th our friend and colleague @MitchWainer will be taking over our Twitter. He'll be tweeting a couple of important go to market nuggets & answering your questions all afternoon. Attached is a tiny snapshot of his career. He's a 3 times founder.... ಠ_ಠ

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First 40. Then 400. Then 40000. Then 40MM.

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@ascent_hi

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wake up babe, new Canadian early stage fund dropped

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One year after announcing the launch of @Northside__VC , I’m excited to share that we’ve successfully reached the final close of our inaugural fund at $15M CAD ($11M USD)!

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@ascent_hi

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I wouldn't dismiss 535.

Fahd Ananta

@fahdananta

2 months

Another @535TORONTO member just stacking Ws

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Jesse Rodgers is a great human, you should get involved in everything he does because... he deserves all our help! 🦦

Jesse Rodgers

@jrodgers

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Take very talented and ambitious people, and provide a place for them to connect while working on their next thing.

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robots robots robots robots wanna do a robot startup: hmu!

GitHub - facebookresearch/sapiens: High-resolution models for human tasks.

High-resolution models for human tasks. Contribute to facebookresearch/sapiens development by creating an account on GitHub.

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When you get asked to explain "internetvin" to the management team of a 100 year old law firm. 🦦

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada LLP. has some pretty decent office space. Toronto, Ontario, Canada Inc. has work to do. 🦦

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VANCOUVER: open office hours c/o the wonderful, the handsome, the talented AND smart, @bmann + the fine folks at Z-Space. Bring a deck, bring an idea, bring your emotional support animal- we'll have your stuff picked to bits: 🦦

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Kind folks at z-space have agreed to host office hours! free free to slot yourself in!!!!

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@ascent_hi

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y not

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@internetvin

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yo if you live in Toronto and make stuff, we should support each other man, why not? Let’s just do it, ride or die for each other.

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One of the main objections we got in the early days of DeviantART was... ready for it? ....... "nobody wants to put art on the internet, that's stupid" no pix on teh inter webs k folks?

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In startup, It doesn't matter how powerful you think you are. It only matters how powerful you are. You can only know how powerful you are after the wash. So get into the arena, because it all comes out in the wash.

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@ascent_hi

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Remember: If they've not touched the scale you're aiming for, the advice is effectively a fable.

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@garrytan

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Be careful who you take advice from I think there are some startup people you can follow on here where if you do, the smartest regions of your brain shrivel by 25% Not going to name names

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Folks asking me which Canadians to work for in AI. Probably one of the smartest dudes I've met in a long time is @AtomSilverman —I find his intelligence a bit intimidating. I would strongly advise trying to work for Adam; he is a great dude.

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@ascent_hi

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Ha, can't believe they let me take over their Twitter today! I'm Mitch Wainer, co-founder of DigitalOcean and marketing enthusiast. Let's dive into some marketing stuff together and feel free to ask me anything!

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took a while but we built it a machine that can create 30 BPM (Beavers Per Month) we hope to have the system up to 90 BPM by Q2 🦦

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My Startup Failed, But It's OK: It's ok to start startups. It's ok to fail startups. It's all ok, just relentlessly build things.

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@ascent_hi

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Hello east end. Hello west end. Hello up town. Love, Money Row. 💰🦦

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@ascent_hi

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Dude has a PhD in right answers only...

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@internetvin

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Dude said he would base jump off the CN tower if I could answer his question, no idea why someone would risk death off a stupid ass tweet: "Toronto tech" and "Atlanta music" are systems - interconnected things working together creating some kind of outcome. The simplest way to

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Janet is one of the best investors in Canada and you can take that to the bank. Work for her money because lord knows she will work for you. We are extremely lucky to have her.

Evan McCann

@evansammccann

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"How quickly do they execute? Do they test, learn, iterate, and move on?" - Janet Bannister ( @jebannister ) the Founder and Managing Partner of Staircase Ventures. In this episode we discussed... -Working at eBay early days. -Launching Kijiji in Canada. -Getting into VC and

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Ascent going international?

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Don't worry. We're here now buddy.

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Leading the world in the most number of startup accelerators and incubators! 😅

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"Startups, at their core, come from people creating something of value for others. They are born from the act of building, not from the rituals of the startup religions or the blessings of the Venture Capitalists. It is the people who make a startup successful — the customers who

Jesse Rodgers

@jrodgers

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Where do baby startups come from?

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@ascent_hi

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A bit about me: I’ve been building brands and driving growth for years. From DigitalOcean to Welcome Homes, it's been a wild ride. Today, I'll share some key insights from my journey as a 3 time founder.

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Looks like those pre-seed rounds are all going down in the beaches rn. Makes sense if you think about it...

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@bmann @steventen Get them the money get them to me. I'll take care of the rest. I just can't do the whole thing end to end, @MapleVCFund will always take a pitch from my founders, Janet at staircase, Eric at Yale has been stepping up big for me.

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Love all the Canadian robotics folks DM'ing to talk through their robot ideas. Thinking about doing a bootcamp on how to build capex heavy startups? Maybe you can help me find more of them? (ask me how I know about Capex heavy startups. tnx @charlesfitz )

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Did the midful mile with @adamchenchew and @_sophysun this morning now at RAG from scratch with @70by7 The RAG from scratch workshop is A++++ - you're missing out and I'm moving to 225IQ era. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The most brilliant team can build something nobody wants to buy, and nobody will still want to buy it.

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Finally did it, building in public y'all, Finally made the MVP of that stupid blog thing I've been yatter on about all week. Think it's a pretty good idea but I'm not sure yet, so we'll see...

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Laurence is an awesome dude. 5head + very kind. Toronto: Take him in plz! ❤️

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I’m planning to pass by Toronto next week. If any student groups are looking to host workshops, please let me know, would love to give a ML workshop presentation!

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Starting ascent, someone in the venture industry here in Toronto said "oh that's cute" - You know what @bradgillespie said? "let me know when you have demo days I'll fly up" - That frustration you showed last night. We share it. ascent is not CUTE. ascent is very badass.

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on this train

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LFG 💰🇨🇦🚀

Evan McCann

@evansammccann

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Cold Capital (🥶🧢) is officially a go! I will be fundraising over the next few months. Looking to back 🇨🇦 founders at pre-seed so feel free to reach out or send folks my way. More info like website, memo, thesis, etc. will be coming ASAP.

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¯`v´¯) `*.¸.*´ ?----------updated ¸.•´¸.•*¨) ¸.•*¨)?------the (¸.•´ (¸.•´ .•´ ¸¸.•¨¯`•----blog! :D (¯`v´¯ .`·.¸.·´ ?)----- ¸.·´¸.·´¨) ¸.·*¨) (¸.·´ (¸.·´ .·´ ¸

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What to know about real robots deployed in the real world. STRONGLY believe we need to figure out how to make Canada the new gen robotics epicenter of the world. This is something we should, in theory, be very good at.

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A short circuit happens when I hear "but Canadian founders are just..." Canadian founders are just founders. Founders are founders. Hard as nails and that is that. Cannot tolerate this "Canadian founders are" thing. You build a billion dollar business or you don't. Founders swing

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@ftnabeelah

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@ascent_hi @internetvin you were pretty good toooo! bringing up what needed to be said

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wow

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@_benjaminparry

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don't drain

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may not be able to reply to all 47 of you today, but will reply, promise.... 🦦

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@fahdananta Spent a solid seven hours last week focusing on the thought: If the population is highly educated, full of risk-takers and forward-lookers, how do we just turn the whole country into startups and everyone into startup employees? Your idea riffs hard off this; love it!🥰

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Got to having a few public companies under my belt, because of sleeping on the office floor. there was a 3 year stretch of 365/24/7 nothing but the startup work/life balance is for people who want work and life to be balanced, startup is for people who just want the work.

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@Altimor

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I’m confused about this work life balance debate flaring up every so often. I 100% understand folks who decide to prioritize other things in life than work. But I never got how you could argue that hard work didn’t matter. It is so crystal clear that it’s just become a signal

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Also the shoe game here is too much... East and West explosion! 🧨💥

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Looking for high quality Canadian fractional FP&A/CFO support to recommend to founders. preferably, can do cap table math in head 🦦 Plz help!!! je @ascent .ca

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Would imagine 100% of startups at some point in their lifecycle get derailed by advice that isn’t applicable to their stage or market. A fair amount of our work is explaining why some advice given isn’t applicable. A large % of those who make it are bullet-dodging masters.

Jordan Thibodeau

@JWthib

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@ascent_hi how many startups have you seen derailed by bad advice? The default should be no advice and only offer it when begged by the founder and with plenty of caveats.

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As you approach IPO, prepare for INTENSE scrutiny. Every decision you've ever made will be under the microscope. Hope you've been keeping good records and making ethical choices. Remember: It all comes out in the wash.

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