Director for International Business Development Anastasia Smolentseva had the absolute pleasure to participate in AccelerateOtt conference hosted by Invest Ottawa and the C100, in partnership with Algonquin College, Abbott, BDC, BMO, Ottawa Business Journal, KPMG, Ottawa Convention Centre and Sprott School of Business (Carleton University). Over 300 entrepreneurs, investors, students and businessmen gathered to listen and learn from the Mayor of Ottawa Jim Watson, Bruce Lazenby (President & CEO of Invest Ottawa), Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder & Managing Partner of The Social+Capital Partnership), Jason Calacanis (Founder & CEO of Inside.com), Harley Finkelstein (CPO of Shopify), Paul Loucks (President and CEO of Halogen Software), Jeff Swystun (President & CMO of Swystun Communications), Andrea Baptiste (President and CEO of Benbria), Michael Weider (Co-founder, Blaze Software), Eric Kitchen (Founder, FastLane Technologies), Luc Levesque (Founder, TravelPod), Jason Flick (Co-Founder & CEO of YOUi Labs Inc.), and last but not least Tobi Lütke (CEO & Founder of Shopify). Here are some of the best quotes: · Growth comes from having a really great product
· You build the box, you build a mind, you control the mind, you control the person
· anything that you start has a 1% chance at success so take the BIG risks
· When the economic value of the companies participating in your platform exceeds the value of the platform, you win
· don't choose entrepreneurship because its cool choose it because you have a big idea
· Business ideas should be transformational touching the lives of every person it comes in contact with
· The framework for how the world assigns value is dated
· You have to be able to fail at business
· Passion and ambition key to driving your success. When the world turns its back on you, passion will drive you
· Elon Musk is the most important person in the world right now
· branding is about uniqueness
· brand is an economic tool
· the future is after artists and creators
· Keys to embracing art & science: design, story, symphony, empathy, play, meaning
· Its good to be ambitious, but its not great to be too hasty
· Really great companies can't be built in a year, it's good not to try and build it to fast
· Personal growth and the pursuit of greatness are the things that make people successful and hence business successful.
· There is no singular right place to start a company there is only what is the right place for you
· A startup typically brings together people committed to a similar pursuit
· Think big and shatter all the boxes For more info and photos please see our blog here: http://greenoffon.com/blog_page/6142
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