Toolkit Tuesday: Digital Tech for Entrepreneurs with Mohammad Keyhani

Join us for Toolkit Tuesdays in the Hub!

Toolkit Tuesdays are mini-workshops and presentations with prominent innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders designed to help you develop tools for building entrepreneurial thinking, social innovation and startups.

Light refreshments will be served.

Digital Tech for Entrepreneurs

Most budding entrepreneurs are too much organic human, meaning that they are unaware of, or fail to augment their skills by taking advantage of the latest digital technologies available. These technologies can supercharge the venture start-up process to the extent that the tech-savvy entrepreneur can sometimes seem superhuman compared to the overly organic entrepreneur, even when applied in a low-tech business context.

Broadly, we refer to this kind of technology as “Entrepreneurship Technology” and explore how some previously daunting aspects of entrepreneurship have been made easier because of it. We review some powerful examples of digital entrepreneurship technologies like marketplace creators, form builders, and automation tools, and walk participants through hands-on exercises to get started with some of them (so bring a laptop or a friend who has one!)

Presented by Mohammad Keyhani

Mohammad Keyhani
Ph.D., Maker of Entrepreneur Tools
David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission
Assistant Professor, Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Haskayne School of Business

Mohammad Keyhani is an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary and a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission. He is the maker of the Entrepreneur Tools website, an internationally renowned list of resources for start-ups and entrepreneurs and also serves as a Lab Strategist at Creative Destruction Lab Rockies. Dr. Keyhani's research has been published in top tier peer-reviewed journals and presented in international conferences where he has received multiple best paper and best reviewer awards. He received his doctorate in strategic management from the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada, and has a M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship and B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, both from the University of Tehran, Iran.

Dr. Keyhani is currently teaching the world’s first university course on Entrepreneurship Technology at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. The course was inspired by the global success of his Entrepreneur Tools web directory found here: https://entrepreneur-tools.zeef.com and some early student assignments can be found on the class blog here: https://medium.com/entrepreneurship-technology-blog