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bmann.ca
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2link: https://venturescouts.ca
3tags:
4 - startup
5 - Canada
6 - project
7 - investing
8 - angel
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10I ran Venture Scouts as a project and mini community for founders and angel investors to support each other.
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12The initial concept was that perhaps we could create an early stage fund and equip young people with a diverse background to be scouts in their hyper regional area of Canada: looking for startup founders, equipping them with education, access, referrals and so on, as well as writing extremely small investments: like $10K. But using that as a catalyst to get setup properly, and spur other angels to also write cheques. Effectively acting as a lead.
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14This was a model that Boris was successful with at [[Full Stack]], but at the time syndicates weren’t really possible.
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16Why? Well, we need to completely reboot and re-invigorate angel investing in Canada, and so we should support the next generation to help with this.
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18There was a Discourse forum which I did a bad job of archiving, the static files are at <https://venturescouts.ca>
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20This name might get revived to apply to [[Founder Peer Investing]].