What No One Tells You About Building a Tech Company

🎧 NEW EPISODE: FOUNDER JOURNEY FT. AMAR VARMA (PART TWO)

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🎙 MORE TAKEAWAYS FROM THE TALK

• Skills, building, tooling and opportunity – Why we are at the juncture of something we’ve never seen before as builder’s

• You can start today – Companies are moving 0-100 everyday, and you can too

• Don’t fear AI – AI is able to help you build faster. It’s still your idea, it’s just a tool to help you bring it to life.

Why it’s worth your time

In part two, Amar this time dug into more of the intricacies of building today and how the landscape has changed since he was building his businesses.

It’s a playbook to show you exactly how you can leverage, communities, opportunities, software and tools to bring your ideas to market faster. Time’s have changed and today’s builder’s should also be adapting.

BONUS CONTENT

Here’s a prominent clip from the interview we really loved that tees up today’s new episode.

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 ✨ RECAP

We’ve hit the ground running at SAAS NORTH this year, hosting two dinners, a Rocketships stage and even a kick-off party.

Check out some of the biggest moments of the week so far:

Founder’s Collective Dinner with BDC Venture Fund

For the third time, we’ve brought this series to life (this time in Ottawa) to showcase the amazing women builder’s making a major impact in their industries.

Rocketships Showcase Stage — Ottawa Edition (in Partnership with Boast)

We took our Rocketships National Tour on the road to Ottawa to find the next best batch of companies building big things and taking careers to the moon.

We were lucky enough to have 8 startups pitch on our stage at SAAS NORTH and showcase what they’re building and why the ecosystem should be paying attention.

Congratulations to:

• Marc Gingras, CEO & Co-Founder at Bloks

• Kevin Dooley, CEO at Kahi Inc.

• Sarah Sedgman, CEO & Founder at LearnExperts

• Aaron Gould, Lead Product Engineer at Remitian

• Mike Weider, CEO at Frugal

• Erin Kelly, CEO at Advanced Symbolics Inc. (ASI)

• Jamie D. Greenberg, General Counsel at Solink

• and Sophie Jiang, CEO & Co-Founder at MoVA Realities (our SAAS NORTH bus trip pitch winner)

Want the chance to attend our final Rocketships Showcase in Toronto? We’ll be bringing our showcase to a conclusion on December 1 at Toronto City Hall! Your chance to meet the companies sure to take your career to the moon!

Growth Dinner Series (in partnership with Sage & TIMIA Capital)

We continued to bring growth founder’s together, this time in Ottawa to meet one another over an intimate dinner and share their challenges. It was a safe space to get advice as builder’s and learn from other’s in the ecosystem.

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