About Vice-Principal ResearchQueen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Partnerships and Innovation카지노 게임 컬렉션s Wings program helped a diverse, eclectic range of entrepreneurs and innovators successfully launch their businesses. Run by a team experienced in helping startups take flight, the program taught participants how to recognize their strengths, focus on what it is they are really selling, and identify their customers. The program welcomed its final cohort of fledgling startups this January 2023.
When Andrew Jackson explains the Wings program that he and Elza Seregelyi ran successfully for Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Partnerships and Innovation (QPI) for four years, he talks about 카지노 게임 컬렉션the right-hand side of the .카지노 게임 컬렉션
There카지노 게임 컬렉션s nothing wrong with an analogy. Business people use them all the time. But with a program called Wings you might expect something involving birds or aviation. And indeed, says Elza Seregelyi, that카지노 게임 컬렉션s why the name Wings was chosen. 카지노 게임 컬렉션To capture that idea of taking off, of soaring to new heights 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and even of experiencing some turbulence along the way.카지노 게임 컬렉션
So, to dip apparently into the world of the fine arts for your metaphors after that is a little surprising. But this isn카지노 게임 컬렉션t really about the fine arts. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s much more down to earth. The creation of business theorist Alex Osterwalder and others, a business canvas 카지노 게임 컬렉션 specifically the Business Model Canvas 카지노 게임 컬렉션 is a one-page tool for understanding a company and its workings. The firm카지노 게임 컬렉션s key activities, partners and resources go on the left. The right hand, by contrast, focuses on the customer 카지노 게임 컬렉션 who are they, what do they want, and how can you reach them? By focusing on these important questions, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Partnerships and Innovation카지노 게임 컬렉션s Wings program has helped launch 43 companies in the Kingston area and beyond since the program카지노 게임 컬렉션s inaugural session in 2019.
The Wings program was created, in Jackson카지노 게임 컬렉션s words, as a 카지노 게임 컬렉션sort of greatest hits package,카지노 게임 컬렉션 drawing on two previous programs that he and Seregelyi had designed and delivered for QPI: DiscoverXL and GrindspaceXL.
Wings, however, differed in two distinct ways. One, it recognized that the previous programs were too time-consuming for entrepreneurs, who often don카지노 게임 컬렉션t have much of that resource to spare. Wings, by contrast, would be once a week and last just eight weeks. Second, those programs called in experts as needed to cover the subjects that participants needed to learn about. Wings was essentially just Jackson and Seregelyi presenting the material as well as working one-on-one with the participants, an approach which allowed them to tailor the program very closely to their participants카지노 게임 컬렉션 needs. 카지노 게임 컬렉션The content was always different according to the entrepreneurs enrolled,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Seregelyi.
One further, if unintended innovation: thanks to COVID, virtually every session was given remotely. This actually made it easier for some entrepreneurs to participate, even once restrictions were lifted.
카지노 게임 컬렉션The basic idea of Wings,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Rick Boswell, Assistant Director, Programs and Operations at QPI, 카지노 게임 컬렉션was to help companies do product and customer validation, to understand the market and their place in the market.카지노 게임 컬렉션
By interviewing potential clients and working with Seregelyi and Jackson, they slowly developed their own 카지노 게임 컬렉션value proposition카지노 게임 컬렉션 that, says Boswell, boils down to 카지노 게임 컬렉션This is the problem, this is how I am going to solve it, and this is how it will bring value to the customer.카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션If an entrepreneur can figure that out,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Jackson, 카지노 게임 컬렉션they can start to build out the rest of their business model.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Drawn from companies enrolled in the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Startup Runway incubation program, participants in the various Wings cohorts have included companies developing stratospheric communications balloons, ways of conducting drug and medical trials remotely, and software intended to help spas and wellness clinics run their businesses.
카지노 게임 컬렉션At the most basic카지노 게임 컬렉션 says QPI카지노 게임 컬렉션s Communications Coordinator, Amanda Gilbert, who helped oversee the Wings program, 카지노 게임 컬렉션they just needed to have an idea and a prototype or MVP [minimum viable product] to show that they had actually put some thought into developing a business proposition and were ready to speak with customers about it.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Speak to graduates and perhaps one of the most interesting takeaways they have from Wings is the degree to which they learned and benefitted from the experiences of other participants in their cohort. They may have been developing radically different ideas or pursuing very different markets, but they were all entrepreneurs. That was, says Seregelyi, something that 카지노 게임 컬렉션We designed the program to support. You can카지노 게임 컬렉션t force the networking among participants, but that peer-to-peer element was very strong.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Says Mike Kelly, a participant in the final Wings program, 카지노 게임 컬렉션Being able to watch these people in their earlier stages and then in their later stages teaches you a lot about what it takes to bring an idea from napkin to market.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Participants over the years have been laudatory about the program in general.
카지노 게임 컬렉션We were almost at a point where we had given up,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Simone Santos of Path2Zero. 카지노 게임 컬렉션And then Wings was there to motivate us.카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션The Wings program and specifically the focus on what they called customer needs, really helped us,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Morgen Peers, of London Street/ZAKOapp.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I can카지노 게임 컬렉션t say enough about Wings,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Joshua Balderson of Reel Alumni. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I can카지노 게임 컬렉션t thank them enough for all they taught me.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Although, the program was in existence for only four years, it was delivered five times to distinct cohorts of 6-10 companies that were very much in their infancy, and it has already produced its share of success stories:
. Post Wings, thanks to his success with his innovation, a scheduling and tracking software for government lobbyists, founder Chris Moffat Armes has been able to leave his previous job and work full-time on his new company.
. Created to provide older people with any help they might need 카지노 게임 컬렉션 from repairs around the house to running them to medical appointments 카지노 게임 컬렉션 the firm카지노 게임 컬렉션s founders have seen Hülpr expand in terms of employees, revenue, and resources from idea to a company actively engaged in patient transfer from home to hospital or medical appointment while offering their clients trained personal support. According to co-founder Jonathan Ladha, the company today has revenues 23 times larger than when it finished the Wings program.
. The brainchild of Drs. Mueller and Wiginton, the company카지노 게임 컬렉션s novel 카지노 게임 컬렉션liquid biopsy카지노 게임 컬렉션 technology recently earned the founders a $900,000 grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to enable a multi-centre breast cancer clinical trial.
. A member of the very first cohort of companies to pass through the Wings program, Plantee카지노 게임 컬렉션s work in the emerging world of bioplastics is helping to find solutions to the daunting problem of ocean pollution caused by conventional plastics.
. By giving him insights into marketing, the Wings program helped Scott Selbie launch his novel AI-based system for evaluating human movement without the need to attach markers or sensors to the body of the person being studied. This year they are projecting to double their revenues for the second year since participating in the program.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I was talking with Elza about all the different companies,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Jackson, looking back on Wings, 카지노 게임 컬렉션and there are so many different reasons to take inspiration from all of them. In some cases, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s a transformational personal journey. In others, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s a change the world story, where you look at it and go this is just amazing.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Says Seregelyi: 카지노 게임 컬렉션The number of times someone said, 카지노 게임 컬렉션I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve gained confidence in my own abilities or my business.카지노 게임 컬렉션 I think it카지노 게임 컬렉션s tremendous.카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션It is always a privilege to be part of an entrepreneur카지노 게임 컬렉션s growth and journey,카지노 게임 컬렉션 adds Jackson, 카지노 게임 컬렉션and we카지노 게임 컬렉션re very thankful for the growth this program has provided us.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Partnerships and Innovation acknowledges the assistance of , , and the , which provided funding to deliver a variety of programs and services, including Wings and QSR, to technology-focused companies in Eastern Ontario.