Open Letter – ResolveTO https://www.resolveto.com Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:20:41 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.resolveto.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cropped-Resolve-favicon-144x144-32x32.png Open Letter – ResolveTO https://www.resolveto.com 32 32 120057855 How to “do” resolutions instead of “say” them https://www.resolveto.com/2017/01/02/how-to-do-resolutions-instead-of-say-them/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:19:07 +0000 https://www.resolveto.com/?p=2937 January for many means fresh starts. That post-holiday lull where millions of people make promises to themselves that they’ll be better, do better, spend more time at the gym, spend more time with family, and on it goes. Resolutions, we call them. And they’re made with the intent to improve, and to grow, but sometimes they become nothing more than a high-level wish we never follow through on.

 

To resolve to do something has a few different meanings, and they boil down to this:
1. Find a solution to an existing problem
2. Decide firmly on a course of action
3. Possess a firm determination to do something

 

Maybe, instead of making this starting line January 1 of every year, the best course of action is to apply these components to our day to day lives, and make consistent progress towards our bigger picture.

 

At the end of January, we’ll kick off ResolveTO. Aptly named to inspire people to spend these three days finding solutions to existing problems, deciding firmly on the course of action, and keeping our firm determination to do something daily about it. Startupfest is the epicentre where startup communities globally come together, ResolveTO is where real world challenges are articulated, and solutions are found.

 

This year, today, let’s resolve to transform ourselves in the face of radical, constant change, on a global stage. After all, it may be a new year, but today is a new day.

]]> 2937 Startupfest’s Open Letter to Toronto https://www.resolveto.com/2016/10/04/open-letter-to-toronto/ Tue, 04 Oct 2016 01:00:10 +0000 https://www.resolveto.com/?p=1 Every July for the past six years, in the glorious summer setting of Old Montreal, Startupfest hosts a global gathering of the world’s most influential entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and mentors. Combining world class content with an unbeatable festival vibe- Startupfest is Canada’s largest startup event.

 

Early next year, for the first time ever, we’ll combine the unique energy and festival vibe of the global Startupfest community with the spirit of enterprise in Canada’s largest city. In one of the greatest cities in the world- Toronto, Canada- Startupfest presents ResolveTO.

 

ResolveTO will combine the trademark energy and attitude of Startupfest with this new enterprise thinking. It will bring together the best and brightest from startup and enterprise for a can’t-miss look at innovation, disruption, exponential growth, adaptive cultures, and emerging marketplaces. We’re resolving to transform ourselves, and business as we know it, in the face of radical, constant change on a global stage.

 

Startups + Enterprise = Strategic Innovation and Growth

 

Startups have an undeniable energy and tempo, unconstrained by convention, striving to innovate, designing and developing new ideas, disrupting traditional business and industries, and changing the world.

 

As the rate of change continues to accelerate, business cycles compress, technologies and customer demographics rapidly evolve. Leading enterprise companies are constantly challenged to become more entrepreneurial, to stay agile in response to changing markets, and evolve to attract and retain top talent.

 

Imagine bringing together the best people, ideas and practices of both startup and enterprise, to collaborate and share insights on innovation, disruption, fast company culture, and the digital transformation driven by the new millennial marketplace.

 

ResolveTO will bring together today’s great companies, the names you already know, with the rookies, the newcomers, the disruptors – as Steve Jobs put it “the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world” – to collaborate together on innovation, new ways to serve customers and grow, what works, what doesn’t and what’s new.

 

Why? What will happen? We never know. Partnerships. Customers. Financing. Acquisitions. Ideas. Projects. Change!

 

Startups- meet the most established companies of the international business community, and together let’s resolve to innovate, collaborate, and grow.

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