About Vice-Principal ResearchQueen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Partnerships and Innovation카지노 게임 컬렉션s Wings Accelerator program is aimed at startups in the early, pre-revenue, stages of development. Through a mix of full-day seminars featuring business professionals and one-on-one coaching with accelerator facilitators Elza Seregelyi and Andrew Jackson, Wings gives startup founders the tools and guidance they need to evaluate the feasibility of their business idea, determine what it is they really have to offer customers, and begin developing a working business model. Participants build relationships with other startups, and learn how to create pitch their ideas to potential investors.
Wings is offered through the , an initiative led by in Eastern Ontario and in which QPI is a regional partner. The Scale-Up Platform is supported by the (FedDev Ontario).
You might call Chris Moffatt Armes the 카지노 게임 컬렉션accidental entrepreneur.카지노 게임 컬렉션 He didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t quite have entrepreneurship 카지노 게임 컬렉션thrust upon him카지노 게임 컬렉션 to borrow from Shakespeare, but it wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t what he planned. Fortunately, when an opportunity arose, he was able to draw on Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Partnerships and Innovation (QPI) to help him, particularly its Wings program.
Moffatt Armes works for Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 in its 카지노게임사이트 Relations, as what is commonly known as a lobbyist. He works as part of a team that represents the university and its interests at all three levels of government.
Their behaviour is quite strictly regulated to avoid not only undue influence, but even the suggestion of the same. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Depending on what level of government you are engaging with, there are certain reporting requirements,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Moffatt Armes. 카지노 게임 컬렉션For example, if you have an oral, pre-arranged meeting with certain categories of federal public office holders, that has to be reported.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Despite how important this is, says Moffatt Armes, most lobbyists track their outreach in an ad hoc fashion. 카지노 게임 컬렉션You find yourself digging through emails, wads of paper, I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve even heard of someone being handed just a stack of business cards with dates written on the back.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Straightening it all out is, he says, a 카지노 게임 컬렉션massive time suck,카지노 게임 컬렉션 that diverts their attention away from working for clients and advancing their objectives. There are software programs out there that come close to what lobbyists need (Moffatt Armes cites Salesforce), but nothing that is specifically geared to their industry카지노 게임 컬렉션s idiosyncratic requirements.
카지노 게임 컬렉션In a moment of hubris, I told my boss, 카지노 게임 컬렉션Give me six months. I카지노 게임 컬렉션m going to figure out how to build this.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Working at home and in his spare time, he created . Initially, he had no intention of turning it into a company. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Until I started getting demand from colleagues in other institutions.카지노 게임 컬렉션 By the fall of 2019, 카지노 게임 컬렉션I was at the point where I had an idea 카지노 게임 컬렉션 but I had no idea how to go about actually implementing it as a product or as a company.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Initially he enrolled in a coaching program run by QPI and given by Isabel Perrot. It was then that Rick Boswell, QPI카지노 게임 컬렉션s Assistant Director of Programs and Operations, mentioned the Wings program to him, as a good fit with where the company was in early 2021.
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Moffatt Armes praises all of the program카지노 게임 컬렉션s elements, and found working one-on-one with Wings co-director Andrew Jackson on customer discovery particularly fruitful. This is where the prospective entrepreneur is told to go out and survey potential customers to discover what they really want, often an eye-opening experience.
카지노 게임 컬렉션After chatting with Andrew, I did a mix of new potential customers as well as reaching out to some of my own customers, who were coming up to their one-year renewal,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Moffatt Armes. 카지노 게임 컬렉션It was really interesting hearing from my own customers. I wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t wrong in how the product was being used, but I was wrong in positioning and how I should be talking about the benefits.카지노 게임 컬렉션 He also learned that his customers, actual and potential, wanted more from the platform 카지노 게임 컬렉션 new legislation, lobby information, who is talking to whom 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and developed a better understanding of the broad range of subjects that affect their work. The discovery process had other benefits as well. 카지노 게임 컬렉션As a result of those calls, I was able to form two new partnerships,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Part of the reason I took this program was to set the foundation, so I could take this out as a fully realized owner-operator business. The company has grown this year. We카지노 게임 컬렉션re on track for five times last year카지노 게임 컬렉션s revenue. We won카지노 게임 컬렉션t be Facebook, but there is a substantial market out there.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Ultimately, he hopes to grow PoliTraQ to where there is a team working on it. 카지노 게임 컬렉션There are so many opportunities,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션A big part of the Wings program was seeing all the opportunities that were available.카지노 게임 컬렉션