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    Explore " bridgit" with insightful episodes like "Bridging Finance", "Building an MVP with Bridgit COO Lauren Lake", "Bâtir un produit minimal viable avec Lauren Lake, chef de l’exploitation de Bridgit", "#107 Restorative discipline vs punitive discipline (and why you need to rapidly respond) w/ guest Jeff Ervine from Bridgit - SmartSocial.com Podcast with Josh Ochs" and "#90 How Hard It Is To Get Bad Google Results Removed? (With Guest Jeff Ervine) - Smart Social Podcast with Josh Ochs" from podcasts like ""Interest Rates with Mates", "CIBC Innovation Banking Podcast", "Balado de Services financiers Innovation CIBC", "Smart Social Podcast: Keeping students safe so they can Shine Online" and "Smart Social Podcast: Keeping students safe so they can Shine Online"" and more!

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    Bridging Finance

    Bridging Finance

    Episode 5 - Bridging Finance

    Bridging finance is becoming more common these days. It allows you to purchase a new property whilst keeping your current property, eliminating the need to sell beforehand!

    Have a listen to how it is structured and get an idea of what is required.

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    Building an MVP with Bridgit COO Lauren Lake

    Building an MVP with Bridgit COO Lauren Lake

    Building the Next Generation Construction Industry from the Ground Up

    Lauren Lake grew up on her father’s construction sites. By the time she entered a university entrepreneur accelerator program, other industries had adopted the latest in technology like wireless Internet access and iPads. Her father’s business hadn’t changed much at all. Lake teamed up with other child of the hard-hat economy to bring the future to an industry stuck in the past. What started out as a two day exercise turned into Bridgit, a start-up success story that’s grown an average 313% over 5 years.

    The Construction Industry isn’t Building its Own Future

    The construction industry is one of the least innovative, and least productive, in the world today, reporting, “The reasons for this narrow focus vary, but some players hesitate to expand into any other area because they have traditionally struggled to deploy new tools at scale, limiting their impact.”

    Lake and fellow Next36 student Mallorie Brodie aimed to make a big impact. Delicately. Without any preconceived notions about what site managers needed, the pair went “crane hunting”. They literally searched the skies for cranes to discover where the job sites — and future customers — were. Once they found them, they arrived unannounced and armed with just two things: a note pad and a box of donuts. What they walked away with was the knowledge necessary to build a Minimal Viable Product the industry needed, and what they needed to kickstart the financing of their fledgling business.

    Lessons Learned Along the Way

    As Bridgit grew, Lake and Brodie had to make a decision: which co-founder would tackle the CEO role, and which would act as the Chief Operating Officer. Lake took the latter. She acknowledges Bridgit made many mistakes along the way, from planning to pricing, but each stumble taught the 20-something entrepreneurs how to make great strides in both the start-up world, and the world of heavy equipment.

    Join Lake and Brodie on the job site with our #CIBCInnovationEconomy series, then listen to Lake get personal with the CIBC Innovation Banking Podcast about what it took to build the foundation of her own success.

    CIBC Innovation Banking is a trusted financial partner to entrepreneurs and investors. Get in touch with our team at cibc.com/innovationbanking

    Bâtir un produit minimal viable avec Lauren Lake, chef de l’exploitation de Bridgit

    Bâtir un produit minimal viable avec Lauren Lake, chef de l’exploitation de Bridgit

    Bâtir le secteur de la construction de prochaine génération

    Lauren Lake a grandi sur les chantiers de construction de son père. Lorsqu’elle a entrepris un programme universitaire d’accélérateurs d’entreprises, d’autres secteurs avaient adopté les plus récentes technologies, comme l’accès Internet sans fil et les iPad. L’entreprise de son père n’avait pas beaucoup changé. Mme Lake a fait équipe avec une autre enfant de l’économie de la construction pour faire souffler un vent d’avenir sur un secteur qui était enlisé dans le passé. Ce qui a commencé par un exercice d’une durée de deux jours est devenu Bridgit, une entreprise en démarrage qui a connu un grand succès, avec une croissance moyenne de 313 % en cinq ans.

    Le secteur de la construction ne bâtit pas son propre avenir

    Selon McKinsey, le secteur de la construction est l’un des moins novateurs et des moins productifs au monde à l’heure actuelle. McKinsey affirme  : « Les raisons de cette vision restreinte varient, mais certains joueurs hésitent à étendre leurs activités à d’autres domaines parce qu’ils ont toujours eu de la difficulté à déployer de nouveaux outils à grande échelle, limitant ainsi leur incidence. »

    Mme Lake et sa compagne d’études de  Next36, Mallorie Brodie, avaient l’intention d’avoir une incidence déterminante. Délicatement. Sans s’embarrasser d’idées préconçues quant aux besoins des gestionnaires de chantier, les deux femmes sont parties à la « chasse aux grues ». Elles ont littéralement cherché des grues dans le ciel pour découvrir où se trouvaient les chantiers et les futurs clients. Une fois qu’elles les ont trouvés, elles sont arrivées sans préavis, armées de deux choses seulement : un bloc-notes et une boîte de beignes. Elles ont quitté les chantiers avec les connaissances nécessaires pour créer un produit minimum viable dont le secteur avait besoin et ce dont elles avaient besoin pour donner le coup d’envoi au financement de leur nouvelle entreprise.

    Leçons apprises en cours de route

    Au fil de la croissance de Bridgit, Mmes Lake et Brodie ont dû prendre une décision : quelle cofondatrice exercerait le rôle de chef de la direction et laquelle agirait à titre de chef de l’exploitation. Mme Lake a choisi d’agir comme chef de l’exploitation. Elle reconnaît que Bridgit a commis de nombreuses erreurs en cours de route, qu’il s’agisse de planification ou de fixation des prix, mais chacune de ces erreurs a montré aux entrepreneures dans la vingtaine comment faire de grands pas dans le monde des entreprises en démarrage et de l’équipement lourd.

    Joignez-vous à Mmes Lake et Brodie sur le chantier par l’intermédiaire de notre série #ÉconomieInnovationCIBC, puis apprenez à connaître le parcours de Mme Lake dans le balado de Services financiers Innovation CIBC, qui porte notamment sur ce qu’elle a dû faire pour jeter les bases de sa propre réussite.

    Services financiers Innovation CIBC est un partenaire financier de confiance pour les entrepreneurs et les investisseurs. Communiquez avec les membres de notre équipe à l’adresse cibc.com/servicesfinanciersinnovation

    #107 Restorative discipline vs punitive discipline (and why you need to rapidly respond) w/ guest Jeff Ervine from Bridgit - SmartSocial.com Podcast with Josh Ochs

    #107 Restorative discipline vs punitive discipline (and why you need to rapidly respond) w/ guest Jeff Ervine from Bridgit - SmartSocial.com Podcast with Josh Ochs

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    Jeff and Josh talk about how to use restorative discipline to bring students together, vs punitive discipline to seperate them.

    Learn more about our guest Jeff Ervine https://www.bridgit.com/

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    #90 How Hard It Is To Get Bad Google Results Removed? (With Guest Jeff Ervine) - Smart Social Podcast with Josh Ochs

    #90 How Hard It Is To Get Bad Google Results Removed? (With Guest Jeff Ervine) - Smart Social Podcast with Josh Ochs

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    Do you know that people can post whatever they want about your student and it will (most likely be seen as the truth) and will potentially damage your student's reputation? In this episode I interview Jeff Ervine from Bridgit.com about his long term battle to improve his digital google results (and make them truthful to his real identity).

    Sign up for our website workshop here: https://smartsocial.com/student-digital-resume-workshop/

    Learn more about Bridgit: https://Bridgit.com

    Hire Josh Ochs to speak at your organization.

    Next Steps for Podcast Listeners:

    --> Register for our new free social media safety webinar.

    Join Parent University to get videos to watch with your kids so they can better understand WHY they need to be smart online.

    Please share this episode with a friend and subscribe so we can help more parents. Thanks for all your support.

    Join our next webinar to learn the 30 worst apps your students should never use: https://smartsocial.com/social-media-webinar/

    Join Parent University to get videos to watch with your kids so they can better understand WHY they need to be smart online.

    View the top 70+ good and bad teen apps in our Popular App Guide page for Parents and Educators.