Life after Yardly: A post-exit interview

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

• Sheldon Zhang
• Yardly
• Exit leaves Yardly co-founder eager to start again
• My first blog: leaving Yardly, my next startup, and a new side project!
• Sheldon Zhang and Terry Song won the Alumni Innovation Award from the University of Alberta
• Collision Conference
• Threshold Impact Venture Mentoring Service
• Taking Back "Lifestyle Business" by Ashley Janssen

More innovation news:

• Cohort 2 of the TELUS Community Safety and Wellness Accelerator includes Islamic Family and Social Services Association, Technology North, and VR Pathways
• Islamic Family and Social Services Association looks to tech for social progress
• Growing Greener Innovations won the Alternative Energy System Innovation Challenge in Saskatchewan
• Copperstone Technologies was a runner-up for KPMG's Canadian Tech Innovator competition
• We spoke to Nicolas Olmedo in Episode 18
• LA Times piece quoting Sorin Mihailovici of Scam Detector
• Travel by Dart gets picked up
• Sign up for the Tech Roundup

Many thanks to our title sponsor, Innovate Edmonton, as well as to Alberta Blue Cross for support of this episode.

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Editing by Castria; theme music by Dave Von Bieker; cover art by Vikki Wiercinski.