Brice Scheschuk Keynote: Founders, Play Your Own Game

​Founders, Play Your Own Game:

​Informed by 30 years of investing in technology and venture capital, Brice Scheschuk explores themes about fundraising including the limited scenarios where venture capital makes sense, the concepts of outlier founders and venture scale growth, and numerous alternative capital paths that are applicable to most founders.

​He discusses the concept of “Mighty Middle” businesses which exist between venture capital and lifestyle businesses and provides a balancing narrative to venture capital as the key measure of success.

​Major Topics:

​Why Now?, When VC Makes Sense, Let’s Deal with Ambition, What is Your Number?, VC Business Model, What I Expect from VC GPs, Outlier Founders, Venture Scale Growth, VC Structural Cyclicality, Reverse Engineering Exit Values, Consequential and Irreversible Decisions, Inversion, Non-VC Capital Sources, The Mighty Middle, Alternate Capital Paths, Debt (and its Dangers), Resources, and Real Life Deal Examples

​Bio:

​Brice Scheschuk, CPA is the Managing Partner of Globalive Capital (www.globalive.com). He was a co-founder and CFO of WIND Mobile as well as CEO of Globalive Communications. Brice has over thirty years’ experience building and operating companies at Globalive, WIND Mobile, Leitch Technology and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

​Brice serves on numerous boards and advisory committees (public, private, and not-for-profit) and is a frequent speaker on scale-up entrepreneurship and innovation. He is a co-founder of MindFrame Connect (www.mindframeconnect.com), a not-for-profit focused on elevating the craft of mentorship, improving entrepreneurial resiliency and alternative capital paths to venture capital. Brice is a supporter of Build Canada (www.buildcanada.com).