Tag: District 3
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Understanding the business model of your innovation
Today’s entrepreneurs have many tools at their disposal to help them validate complex business models. The most popular is Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC), which is also what our instructors and coaches use here at District 3 with our startups. The BMC from Strategyzer However, even with only nine building blocks, the BMC can…
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Extend your startup runway by moving to Montreal
David Bennahum raised $3.2M for his startup Ready. That was enough for 18 months of runway in its home city, New York, but David moved to Montreal with his whole family and turned those 18 months of runway into 40 months. “We found Montreal to be the most undervalued startup ecosystem in North America” — David Bennahum…
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In the future, your degree won’t be from your university, but from your friend
Disclaimer: Neither District 3 nor myself endorse or hold shares, coins or tokens in any of the companies and blockchains discussed in this article. The blockchain could allow any individual to issue proof that another person can perform a skill. This can then be traced to see whether or not that person got hired for…
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Learning and nuance in a digital context
When technology came to the workplace, we asked ourselves “How do we increase productivity with digital tools?” When technology came to schools, we asked ourselves “How do we increase learning with digital tools?” When technology came to governments, we asked ourselves “How do we increase control with digital tools?” When technology came to our personal…
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Classroom 3.0 is not online lectures, it’s decentralized blended learning communities
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) like Udacity or Coursera have liberated lectures from the confines of the lecture hall, but that alone isn’t enough to revolutionize education. Think of online lectures as Classroom 2.0: it was the dawn of the internet, every individual had access to information, and as a result Classroom 2.0 was built…