Alyssa Furtado (ratehub.ca)

03/11/21 • 25 min

Recorded pre-pandemic, in this episode Alyssa Furtado shares the story of Ratehub - Canada's leading comparison platform for mortgage rates, credit cards, GICs, insurance quotes and bank accounts).

Highlights and key advice from Alyssa in this episode:

Learn how side hustles can help develop start-up readiness skills.

The importance of listen and talking to mentors/advisors.

How to scale a team.

Follow Alyssa on social media: @AlyssaJRichard

Learn more about ratehub.ca: http://www.ratehub.ca

Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Resources at Queen’s:

Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation - link
Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre – link
Smith School of Business – Centre for Business Venturing- link

Recorded pre-pandemic, in this episode Alyssa Furtado shares the story of Ratehub - Canada's leading comparison platform for mortgage rates, credit cards, GICs, insurance quotes and bank accounts).

Highlights and key advice from Alyssa in this episode:

Learn how side hustles can help develop start-up readiness skills.

The importance of listen and talking to mentors/advisors.

How to scale a team.

Follow Alyssa on social media: @AlyssaJRichard

Learn more about ratehub.ca: http://www.ratehub.ca

Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Resources at Queen’s:

Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation - link
Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre – link
Smith School of Business – Centre for Business Venturing- link

Previous Episode

Sir Terry Matthews (Wesley Clover)

In this episode, we re-play an interview with Sir Terry Matthews recorded during a visit he made to Queen's campus.

Key advice, stories, comments, and insights from Sir Terry Matthews in this episode:

Give ownership to employees

Build products customers want

Write consistent quarterly reports

Go global – fast (US is local)

Be persistent – up to half the time a lost contract can become a win

Follow Wesley Clover on Twitter @WesleyCloverInt

Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Resources at Queen’s

Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation - link
Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre – link
Smith School of Business – Centre for Business Venturing- link

Next Episode

Nadia Tatlow (Shift)

Hear Nadia Tatlow (CEO & Queen’s BAH grad) share the founding and growth story at Shift – a Software as a Service to consolidate email and many other subscriptions in the browser).

Nadia shares words of advice on the following topics:
- Solving a problem team that members were experiencing, initial as a side project

Defining product-market fit

Striking the balance between user feedback and addressable market

Follow Nadia on Twitter @NadiaTatlow
Learn more about Shift at tryshift.com

For Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship resources at Queen’s, please see:
- Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation - link

Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre – link

Smith School of Business – Centre for Business Venturing- link