Want to know what an entrepreneurship journey looks like?
Need to find funding and unsure of where to start? Startup 101 will kickstart your business knowledge with our simple hour long (sometimes more) themed sessions. Hosted by founders for everyone.
This session focuses on how to validate your idea with customer, develop a problem-solving mindset, estimate the opportunity’s total size and avoid tar pit ideas.
Meet your hosts
John Dick
Cofounder of Nicoya and Campus Director of Velocity
John is the Director of Velocity Campus. He leads Velocity programming on the University of Waterloo campus and develops strategic initiatives that serve to inspire, train and support entrepreneurs.
Before joining Velocity, John was a cofounder and CSO of Nicoya for 7 years. As co-founder, he worked on IP creation and prototype development while supporting pitching and early business development activities. As CSO he led its R&D efforts, early product development and customer support through his experience in nanotechnology-based sensor development.
Moazam Khan
Cofounder of Curiato and Velocity Director of Health
A staunch believer in the impact of data-driven technologies in healthcare, Moazam
found Curiato in 2015, a digital healthcare platform that analysis and predicts hospital acquired conditions directly from the surface of the bed with a smart bed cover. Moazam grew the company from inception (right here at Velocity) to revenue, from raising capital, executing clinical trials, developing international partnerships, receiving regulatory confirmations, and scaling a brilliant team across 3 continents.