Never Fu@#ing Quit: An Entrepreneur's Playbook 
I had the pleasure of being invited to speak on the main stage of the Sony Centre during the Elevate Tech Festival, about our window of opportunity to leverage our innovation economy to chalk up wins for Canada on the global stage. It’s something that I am passionate about, and it is the reason why I left a very comfortable […]
The past six months have had a catastrophic impact on the global economy and recovery will require serious collaboration between private and public sectors. It’s hard to believe, but even though many countries have been shut down for months, we are still in the COVID-19 response phase. However, I do believe the innovation economy –– where we’ve seen so much […]
By Abdullah Snobar and Yung Wu. Our world has fundamentally changed, and the future of business has changed with it. As entrepreneurs, our biggest concerns from eight weeks ago, such as “How do I manage my dilution?”, have been replaced with “How do I survive the next month?” Then, capital was freely available and we had a good handle on […]
MaRS Discovery District is a not-for-profit corporation founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2000. Its stated goal is to commercialize publicly funded medical research and other technologies with the help of local private enterprises and as such is a public-private partnership. They support 1300+ startups working in cleantech, healthtech, fintech AI, and many more. In the past couple of years, […]
Image Credit: Shutterstock Yung Wu OpEd VentureBeat August 29 2018 For years, Silicon Valley wasn’t the main place many venture capitalists looked for deals — it was the only place. But the Bay Area is beginning to lose its once vice-like grip on talented workers, and its startup investment market is looking dangerously overheated. Now VCs are lifting their gaze from California and […]
All hands on deck at Fuse Powered during March Madness – fourteen days and counting to the commercial launch of Fuseboxx™ 2.0. The public version of Fuse Powered’s publishing technology platform for iOS and Android apps, is making its’ debut at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco at the end of the month. Fuseboxx™ 2.0 provides app publishers […]
NFQ !! 
Finishing my term as CEO, MaRS Discovery District 
Why the tech sector is key to Canada’s economic success | Toronto Star 
Renewal is the key to Innovation 
Mars head Yung Wu announces plan to step down from role as tech incubator’s CEO | Canadian Press 
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