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An entrepreneur learns to build with a longer view

Enya Law turns a Western experience into a case study in persistence, experimentation and impact.

Reported by Shana Dalby Althaus

Enya Law seizes entrepreneurial impact at Western. Official Western News image.
Business & entrepreneurshipEnya Law seizes entrepreneurial impact at Western. Official Western News image.Photo: Western News / official source page

Entrepreneurship is often described as a leap, but Enya Law's story is more useful as a sequence of decisions: notice a problem, test a response and keep learning from the people affected.

That is the kind of founder story alumni can use. The point is not a tidy success arc; it is the discipline of turning an idea into something accountable.

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  1. Original reporting · news.westernu.ca
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