In this episode, Donna Litt talks about the ‘Why Not’ approach that has led her through much of her entrepreneurial career. Taking advantage of opportunities as they come and following your interests to see where they might lead. With Uvaro, Donna and her co-founders saw a hole within the tech industry and came up with a brilliant way to fill it. Learn all about Uvaro, their platform, what they do, and how they got to where they are today.

In this episode, Mallorie talks about the $24M CAD of Series B funding that the company has just secured as well as the importance of maintaining the mindset of a start-up. To always be innovating and looking for opportunities within the industry. Always learning is a crucial component to growing and scaling any business.

In this episode, he joins AQ to reminisce on his career of building Communitech to the intentionally collaborative and ambitious environment it is today. Iain shares how his team worked to keep talent in the region when RIM went through a massive downfall, and how Communitech reviews their strategies yearly to adjust to this ever-changing community.

In this week's episode, Lauren Lake chats with Alan Quarry about the success of Bridgit Solutions and how they used Customer Insights to guide their product development and ultimately drive their success.

Listen in as Jennifer explains how we might find 'happiness’ and coping strategies in times of uncertainty and how to manage the feelings of grief and anxiety and replace them with hope and gratitude. She also touches on Post Traumatic Strength and Post Traumatic Growth which need to be in the forefront of our minds as we dig our way through this time.

Listen in to hear how your user experience may be the key to boosting those customer relationships, increasing demand and bringing in the revenue that you’ve been fumbling for.

Listen in as Jennifer explains what Happiness actually means, and how it’s translated into the workplace. And as a leader, how important it is to limit and help manage stress, in order to foster innovation and remain competitive. And the shifts might be really simple, you just don’t know what questions to ask!

Jim is an engineer, a philanthropist, the president and CEO of not one but TWO companies currently, a humanitarian, an author, a creator, an innovator and he’s showing no signs of slowing down.

So often, in life, we think of success a certain way. What career we end up in, what home we own, what cars we drive all seem rather important when someone asks you to think about your future. But Lindsay took us down a very different road in this episode.

Joseph and Alan discuss the changing landscape of the workforce and how technology can enable a new mode of employment. Joseph shares how Kiite's sales-enabling technology provides employees access to information on their own terms. Joseph also touches on how philanthropic activities as an organization can open the door to a happier, more diverse workforce.

Steve Farlow, Interim Executive Director of the Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises, joins AQ to discuss Wilfrid Laurier University's LaunchPad, the Lazaridis Institute and entrepreneurship. Thanks to a generous gift of $20MIL by Mike Lazaridis, Laurier (WLU) was able to transform its business school to address a serious economic problem.

Guest Host Angela picks Alan’s brain on the topic of leadership: hiring people smarter than you, giving them the freedom to do what they’re best at, and how bureaucracy can negatively impact a business by squashing creativity. Alan shares advice on creating an exciting company culture, providing examples from his own company, Quarry Integrated Communications.

When Don and Alex Tapscott began writing “Blockchain Revolution”, not a single bank was investing in the revolutionary technology. Now virtually every company in the financial services industry is investing heavily as they realize this new technology is the second generation of the internet - the “internet of value”.

Larry tells us the difference between having a strong interest in something and being truly passionate, and how that passion will shape your career. He also discusses the vexing issue of work/life balance and how not having a balance can cause your startup or business to fail. “Just because you work hard does not mean you will be successful.”

April finds that most start-ups struggle with their positioning statements. They either follow the fill-in-the-blank, Frankenstein-style model, or they don’t create one at all. To help, April breaks down the top four types of positioning statements and shares a new way for crafting them. 

CEO of Axonify and Alan’s entrepreneurial heroine, Carol Leaman, stops by to discuss her growing business and her path of serial entrepreneurship. Carol shares what she looks for in a startup when investing and the legacy she wishes to leave behind.

Avvey talks about her cross-Canada tour visiting similar startup hubs and shares what she learned. She also discusses how Canada is doing in terms of innovation, technology and job creation, and how we are blessed to have an amazing ecosystem for startups in Waterloo Region.

Mallorie Brodie, co-founder of Bridgit, talks about meeting her co-founder and starting their business by doing over 500 on-site interviews. Mallorie is candid about what it takes to run a successful business, experiences with a failed business, and what she thinks is important in selecting a business partner.