It all starts with: “There must be a better way.”

We’re in an extraordinary time in history.  Young people with big ideas now have the opportunity to disrupt global markets and build businesses that can scale to a global audience  — Fast!

At JazLabs we are focused on nurturing and mentoring young Canadian entrepreneurs on their journey to launching their startup ventures.  We thrive together with founders in the new world of transparency, authenticity, openness, collaboration and humanity empowered by social design thinking.

Incubators like TechStars, Y Combinator, SeedCamp and others exist in the US and Europe.  Toronto is a hotbed of young entrepreneurs who are hungry to launch their web businesses into the global market and don’t have the desire to move to Silicon Valley, New York or Boston.  JazLabs is focused on empowering this much-needed startup ecosystem in Toronto and surrounding area.

At JazLabs, we believe that it takes more than just capital to turn an idea into a successful company.  We partner with founders who possess unique personal passion to disrupt.  We partner with founders to evolve ideas into truly insightful ideas that can unlock a new market opportunity.

We nurture and mentor founders to enable them:

• to listen, test, iterate and validate their ideas to get to the unique customer insight that can unlock a new global market opportunity
• to develop a product, service or experience that is tested with real consumers – we help tease out the assumptions and test them
• to build a successful team
• to create a winning business model
• to get to the next level (be that Series A funding; the first paying customer; from pre-revenue to post-revenue; a profitable exit; …)

JazLabs provides the vehicle to make this all happen in a nimble, fast, nurturing environment where creative contention leads to success and significance.  We embody the “Lean Startup” philosophy espoused by Eric Ries.

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