Making Room for Ideas
Photo credit: Pixabay | @EliasSch “[The innovation] came from out of the blue. Sometimes good ideas spring from having a sense of where you want to go, of having a vision of the next level of products.” - Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia founder, writing in his book Let My...
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Seeking Validation
Photo credit: Unsplash | @guesh1337 “Get out of the building!” - Steve Blank Bonnie Foley-Wong, CEO of Pique Ventures, thinks that for some people, getting out of the building is easy and comes naturally to them. For others (herself included), getting out of the...
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Ikigai – Founder-Product-Market-Impact Fit
At the start of 2018, for close to two months, Bonnie Foley-Wong, CEO of Pique Venture laboured over a document, working evenings and weekends. She made more asks of her community and network for letters of support than she can count on both hands. She was at the...
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#PiqueVCUnlocked
Building a new firm in venture capital from scratch is not easy. Traditionally it has been the domain of former investment bankers and exited entrepreneurs. There are now some interesting entrants to the industry such as writers, podcasters, and very determined forces...
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Pique Ventures @ Women Deliver
On June 3 to 6, 2019, the City of Vancouver hosted the 5th Women Deliver global conference focused on gender equality and the health, rights, and well-being of girls and women. Bonnie Foley-Wong, CEO of Pique Ventures, was there and was keen to meet other individuals...
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Investment Thesis: An Investor’s Value Proposition
Bonnie Foley-Wong spoke on a panel at Spring’s Impact Investor Challenge on April 24, along with Mike Winterfield from Active Impact Investments and David Borcsok from Ordinary (and formerly of RBC), moderated by Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring. The Impact Investor...
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Courage to Invest in Change
When Bonnie Foley-Wong named her firm, she chose Pique Ventures because she wanted people to be curious about the unknown, rather than be afraid of it. Seven years on, she has come to realize that we need more than just curiosity about the unfamiliar - we need...
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Pique Ventures CEO Receives Startup Canada Entrepreneur Promotion Award
Bonnie Foley-Wong, CEO Pique Ventures, Receives British Columbia Entrepreneur Promotion Award of 2019 by Startup Canada Vancouver, BC – May 14, 2019 – Bonnie Foley-Wong received the Startup Canada Entrepreneur Promotion Award in Vancouver, BC presented by Intuit...
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Pursuit of more equity & inclusion in the Venture Capital industry
“All-women teams received just $1.9 billion of the $85 billion total invested by venture capitalists last year, according to data on the from M&A, private equity, and VC database PitchBook. That’s equal to about 2.2% of 2017’s total pot. Meanwhile, all-male teams...
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5 Hard Truths on Raising Capital While Raising Kids
Read the full article on Business Insider "I'm sorry, but you can't come in." I had decided to venture out to a networking event to reconnect with colleagues, to talk to them about the second venture fund I was raising, and to show off my 8-week old baby. The event...
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