About evolution: a podcast by entrepreneurship@UBC
evolution is a podcast shining light on our ecosystem’s stories of innovation, impact and hustle throughout their venture building journey. Join us as we build community and knowledge related to entrepreneurship during the course of COVID-19.
Building financial literacy and creating communities for change with Investor Kookai Chaimahawong, hosted by Michelle Sklar
In this episode of our podcast evolution, Entrepreneur in Residence, Head of Venture Growth Strategy Michelle Sklar speaks with Kookai Chaimahawong, ESG Partner at UpperStage.Capital, on building financial literacy skills - where to start and how to advance your confidence - to the trends she is seeing across the investment landscape. Listen to get Kookai’s perspective on what changes she is seeing in industry, her advice for early-stage founders and why she thinks community will change the ...
24 Feb 2022
(Part 1) - Building a more sustainable minerals industry with Dr. John Steen of BRIMM hosted by Climate Venture Studio Lead Dr. Shannon Bard
How can mining become a solution to climate change instead of a contributor? In this episode of evolution, hear from Dr. John Steen, Director of BRIMM, The Bradshaw Research Initiative for Minerals and Mining, on the future of mining and how it can wield solutions to the climate opportunity. Led by entrepreneurship@UBC’s Climate Venture Studio Lead Dr. Shannon Bard, the two discuss Dr. Steen’s origins as a ‘rock loving kid’ to his experience bridging academic research with industry to levera...
25 Mar 2021
#IWD2021: Leadership in a Time of Crisis
evolution is a podcast shining light on our ecosystem’s stories of innovation, impact and hustle throughout their venture building journey. Join us as we build community and knowledge related to entrepreneurship during the course of COVID-19. Leadership in a time of crisis: As women stand on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, both the strength of their contributions and disproportionate burdens they carry, amplify the significant gaps in gender equality. Who are the lead...
11 Mar 2021
How to Grow a Strong Team Culture, a Candid Conversation with Co-founder and CEO of AVA Technologies, Valerie Song
evolution is a podcast shining light on our ecosystem’s stories of innovation, impact and hustle throughout their venture building journey. Join us as we build community and knowledge related to entrepreneurship during the course of COVID-19. On this week’s episode of the evolution podcast, host and entrepreneurship@UBC’s Creative Specialist MJ Araujo speaks with Valerie Song, Co-founder and CEO of AVA Technologies. AVA strives to let anyone grow anything, anywhere, shifting society’s...
25 Feb 2021
Entrepreneurial Thinking: What does it mean to be an entrepreneur in today's world?
What makes someone an entrepreneur and how can we champion this mindset across our ecosystem? Dive into the latest adapted session from entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week titled “Entrepreneurial Thinking: What does it mean to be an entrepreneur in today’s world?” featuring Valerie Song of AVA Technologies, Emre Akkas and Hanna Golota of GlobalMe, Harrison Brown of HeadCheck Health, Kim Kaplan, formerly of Plenty of Fish and Pieter Dorsman of Angel Forum to learn about their entrepreneurial ...
19 Feb 2021
A Bold Green Recovery Roundtable Discussion with Toby Heaps
A Bold Green Recovery Roundtable Discussion with Toby Heaps Adapted from Fall 2020’s entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week evolution is a podcast shining light on our ecosystem’s stories of innovation, impact and hustle throughout their venture building journey. Join us as we build community and knowledge related to entrepreneurship during the course of COVID-19. The topic that should be on everyone's mind? Climate change. A Bold Green Recovery Roundtable Discussion wi...
28 Jan 2021
How to Get From Zero to Hero: Six Tips for Developing a Winning Team
evolution is a podcast shining light on our ecosystem’s stories of innovation, impact and hustle throughout their venture building journey. Join us as we build community and knowledge related to entrepreneurship during the course of COVID-19. Finding the right team players to help build your company speaks volumes towards the growth of your organization. But how do you start? This week, we had an opportunity to hear from a remarkable CEO, who is not only a big supporter of entrepreneu...
14 Jan 2021
(Part 2) - What it Takes to Get Started with Us: Hear from some of our exciting ventures in e@UBC’s Fall Lab2Launch Cohort
What does it take to get a startup off the ground and how can you find the resources to get you there? Adapted from our entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week (EIW) session, "What it takes to get started with us", hear from 3 ventures a part of entrepreneurship@UBC's program on how they began their entrepreneurial journey, what they've learned so far and how they've grown from idea to fully fledged company. Featuring Ina Na of DECAP Research & Development, Yajur Sondhi of Nyoka and Mirjam Ma...
9 Dec 2020
(Part1) - What it Takes to Get Started with Us: Hear from some of our exciting ventures in e@UBC’s Fall Lab2Launch Cohort
What does it take to get a startup off the ground and how can you find the resources to get you there? Adapted from our entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week (EIW) session, "What it takes to get started with us", hear from 3 ventures a part of entrepreneurship@UBC's program on how they began their entrepreneurial journey, what they've learned so far and how they've grown from idea to fully fledged company. Featuring Ina Na of DECAP Research & Development, Yajur Sondhi of Nyoka and Mirjam Ma...
21 Aug 2020
How this female founder is transforming an industry with a user-centric approach
evolution is a podcast shining light on our ecosystem’s stories of innovation, impact and hustle throughout their venture building journey. Join us as we build community and knowledge related to entrepreneurship during the course of COVID-19. On this week’s episode of our podcast, evolution, host and entrepreneurship@UBC’s Creative Specialist MJ Araujo speaks with TasteAdvisor Founder and CEO, Alyssa Farr. TasteAdvisor is a technology platform that matches individual consumer taste pr...
7 Aug 2020
Meet 3 entrepreneurial experts in our CORE program
evolution is a podcast shining light on our ecosystem’s stories of innovation, impact and hustle throughout their venture building journey. Join us as we build community and knowledge related to entrepreneurship during the course of COVID-19. On this week’s episode of our podcast evolution, host and entrepreneurship@UBC’s Creative Specialist MJ Araujo speaks with 3 entrepreneurial experts in this special episode highlighting varying perspectives on building a tech and disruption-based...
24 Jul 2020
Hear from 3 Leaders on our Lab2Launch venture building stream
evolution is a podcast shining light on our ecosystem’s stories of innovation, impact and hustle throughout their venture building journey. Join us as we build community and knowledge related to entrepreneurship during the course of COVID-19. This week on our podcast evolution, host and entrepreneurship@UBC’s Creative Specialist, MJ Araujo, chats with 3 leaders in this special episode highlighting varying perspectives on building a research based venture through our Lab2Launch stream....
2 Jul 2020
Finding Your Champion: demystifying founder/funder relationships with Pieter Dorsman of Angel Forum
On this week’s episode of our podcast evolution, guest host and entrepreneurship@UBC EiR Sarah Applebaum chats with Pieter Dorsman of Angel Forum on how to find your champion, demystifying founder and funder relationships. Pieter talks about the importance of entrepreneurs creating investor connections early on in their venture building journey, emphasizing the ways founders can gain value from investors -beyond money- and why this is absolutely crucial to their long term success. Want to lea...
18 Jun 2020
Radically kind: how Brave is helping to combat the overdose crisis with CEO & Founder Gordon Casey
During the past few months, COVID has identified many vulnerable populations in our society, including demographics, business models and general frameworks that are at risk. But, how has it impacted people who were already underserved and in need? On this week’s episode of evolution, entrepreneurship@UBC’s Creative Specialist, MJ Araujo, speaks with Brave Coop Founder and CEO, Gordon Casey. Brave strives to center the voice of the person who uses drugs in everything they do, through a f...
29 May 2020
(Climate) Solutions for a better world: overhauling our future with Paul Needham
evolution is a podcast shining light on our ecosystem’s stories of innovation, impact and hustle throughout their venture building journey. Join us as we build community and knowledge related to entrepreneurship during the course of COVID-19. At the end of 2019, UBC declared a climate emergency, and everyday it seems the world is placing a growing value on technology and systems that solve environmental problems. In our 5th episode of evolution, entrepreneurship@UBC’s Creative Specialis...
15 May 2020
3D printing, on demand: how 3DQue is leading the sustainability revolution in manufacturing
This week, host and entrepreneurship@UBC’s Creative Specialist, MJ Araujo, speaks with Steph Sharp, Co Founder and CEO of 3DQue. 3DQue has created an automation suite for 3D printers to produce parts 24/7, on demand, rivalling current manufacturing systems dependent on outsourcing production at scale. Their team has been pivotal in helping deliver parts for PPE for frontline workers, keeping communities safe while broadening their operations to serve local businesses impacted by broken supply...
30 Apr 2020
At the intersection of entrepreneurship & medicine: responding to COVID-19 with Geoffrey Ching
This week, host and entrepreneurship@UBC’s Creative Specialist, MJ Araujo speaks with Geoffrey Ching, a UBC med student and one of the founders of the BC Student Medical Service Response team, a medical student-led initiative to support BC physicians and Public Health Authorities in their efforts against COVID-19. About Geoffrey Ching Geoffrey Ching is a 3rd year UBC medical student who has worked with his medical school classmates to serve frontline workers, the public health respons...
22 Apr 2020
Transitioning an Organization into the Virtual World with Monica Vucko
This week, host and Creative Specialist MJ Araujo speaks with entrepreneurship@UBC’s Senior Manager of Operations, Monica Vucko. Monica was instrumental in moving the organization and 150+ person network online in a matter of days amidst the world's move indoors, transitioning entrepreneurship@UBC’s entirely in person program into the virtual world. BIO Monica M. Vucko is an entrepreneur and operations professional who serves as entrepreneurship@UBC’s Senior Manager of Operations, whe...
9 Apr 2020
Company Building through Crisis with Sarah Applebaum
In our first episode, host and entrepreneurship@UBC's Creative Specialist MJ Araujo speaks with Sarah Applebaum who shares her expertise as an investor, trends she is seeing in the investing scene and how to approach company building in a period of uncertainty. Check out this resource Sarah recently penned outlining how your startup can move forward during uncertainty. About Sarah Applebaum In addition to being an Entrepreneur in Residence at entrepreneurship@UBC, Sarah Applebaum is a P...
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