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Identifying your customer’s pains and gains
Alongside determining the work that your customer needs to do, it is equally as important to understand where your customer [...]
Identifying What Your Customer Needs to Do
When starting your business you may have a number of ideas about the type of products or services you want [...]
Building Your Free Prototype – Part 3
Building Your Free Prototype In the last couple of posts I’ve discussed what prototypes are, how early- and later stage [...]
Approaches to Building Prototypes – Part 2
Approaches to Building Prototypes In the last post I discussed why you want to prototype and the progression of prototypes [...]
Prototyping for Free – Part 1
Prototyping for Free Prototyping can seem daunting when you don’t have the design or programming skills to do a prototype [...]
Mindset: Why OPN Invested in a Startup that reads your Brain Activity
Who is Mindset? "We believe that with the right tools, people can achieve substantial, tangible, enduring change in their lives. Using [...]
First Look Innovation Summit
In partnership with Durham Region, Spark center and OPN, we ran our inaugural First Look Innovation Summit in the Eastern [...]
Giving Back
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” ~ Muhammad Ali Giving back is [...]
PitchItYork Session 4
On February 13th, Open People Network had our 4th #PitchItYork event at the Seneca Markham Campus. 40+ attendees joined us and watched 3 [...]
Think Out Of The Box
“As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.” [...]
PitchItTO Session 13
It was an absolute pleasure having everyone out for our 13th #PitchItTO event on January 25th. We had a blast [...]
Continuous Improvement & Embracing Failure
“Strive for continuous improvement instead of perfection” - Kim Collins, Olympian, Track and Field Every year Mike and Rob take [...]