{"id":8079,"date":"2025-08-03T20:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2025-08-03T20:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:03:42","slug":"venture-pitch-maple-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2025\/08\/03\/venture-pitch-maple-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture Pitch: Maple Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2025\/08\/MK-Logo-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8081\" style=\"width:299px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2025\/08\/MK-Logo-2-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2025\/08\/MK-Logo-2-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2025\/08\/MK-Logo-2-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2025\/08\/MK-Logo-2-1-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For my venture pitch, I have developed a concept for a web app called <strong>Maple Key.<\/strong> It is a tool that helps educators find the resources they need within seconds so they can spend their time planning great lessons and not sifting through expensive online marketplaces packed with poor quality materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAGusaAKgMY\/_vjoyJqomB269xkp5AfEsw\/watch\">Click here to watch the elevator pitch.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/a3-maplekey\/home\">this website<\/a> to view the full venture pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose the maple key for a number of reasons. I love that it represents a simple yet powerful design that turns a light breeze into towering maple trees. This app would be designed in much the same way, requiring minimal time and effort from teachers while empowering them to build and deliver fantastic lessons. Maple trees are also a quintessentially Canadian symbol and if I ever built a company it would be fiercely proud of its Canadian origins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my venture pitch, I have developed a concept for a web app called Maple Key. It is a tool that helps educators find the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2025\/08\/03\/venture-pitch-maple-key\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venture Pitch: Maple Key<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":101743,"featured_media":8080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a3-venture-pitch","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8084,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions\/8084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}