Lessons from a serial tech and marketing startup entrepreneur - New Brunswick - Canada‘s Podcast

<p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidalston/'>David Alston</a> is a repeat tech and marketing startup entrepreneur, founder and coach at <a href='https://www.marketswell.ca/cmo-accelerator'>Marketswell Solutions’ CMO Accelerator</a> program, a former volunteer Entrepreneur in Residence for the New Brunswick Government, cofounder of <a href='https://www.brilliantlabs.ca/'>Brilliant Labs</a>, an advisor to many startups in the Atlantic region, Radian6's former CMO and Salesforce.com's former Marketing Cloud Chief Adoption Officer.</p> <p>David received KIRA Award's Industry Champion for 2015, a Forbes top 50 CMO in social media, co-winner of a 2014 EY Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Atlantic Canada, 2015 winner of Entrepreneur of the Year and co-winner of Enterprise Promotion for the Atlantic Region from Startup Canada and the winner of the Greater Saint John Community Foundation’s 2018 Community Service Award.</p> <p>David is the past co-chair of LivingSJ, a movement to support and create a path for all those living in poverty in his home city, a member of BCAPI and a former board member with his regional United Way.</p> <p>David currently sits as an independent director on the board of Envision Saint John: The Regional Development Agency, as a commissioner on the board of Saint John Energy, and as an advisor on Venture for Canada's national advisory board.</p> <p>David has been involved with two social impact documentaries, Code Kids, which followed the journey to get coding back in the classroom, and The Millennial Dream, a documentary questioning whether the values of "The American Dream" have now been replaced by those more aligned with the passions of the Millennial generation.</p> <p>David has been a mentor at NomadicMentors.com where he has keynoted and advised close to 50 startups in countries such as Spain, Portugal and Greece.</p> <p>David, his wife, Mary-Gwen, and team also own and run a treetop aerial adventure park in Dominion Park called TimberTop Adventures, one of th