James Warren 坚信应该使用合适的工具来完成合适的工作。

“你用钻头来拧螺丝，”他说。 “但有时，钻头太大了——你需要更精致，所以你使用螺丝刀。你可以针对不同的应用使用不同的工具。”

沃伦不从事木工或建筑施工工作。相反，他是温尼伯信息技术 (IT) 初创公司 Karve 的首席执行官和股东。该公司诞生于他作为一位崭露头角的企业家的时代。ACE Project Space at Red River College Polytechnic.

Warren 和他的 Karve 业务合作伙伴 Jared Kozak 还共同拥有另一家科技公司 DueNorth Systems。两人在加拿大皇家海军服役时相识。沃伦记得当时他在高中时被科扎克“迷住”了，他是一名自学成才的程序员。

Today, with a small staff made up of e8体育 graduates, they build, sell and maintain enterprise resource planning (ERP) software systems, the architecture of which sounds complex to the untrained ear. These systems are used to manage the various flows for operations of medium to large-scale businesses.换句话说，就是资源规划。

Warren 以一家名为 You Move Me 的跨国搬家公司为例，说明其公司的 ERP 软件的工作原理。它使搬家公司能够安排一个工作人员，他们获得一辆特定的卡车，该卡车被分配到一项特定的工作，该工作需要该卡车上需要的一组材料和资产来完成该工作。工作人员需要前往客户的出发地点，打包房屋，前往终点，卸货，最后返回办公室。

“我们平台的完美受众是那些了解可以通过技术方法进行改进的公司，”沃伦坐在 Karve 位于奥斯本村的新办公室里解释道。 “他们还必须明白，技术并不总是答案。”

Warren 毕业于 e8体育'商业信息技术 2018 年 1 月，他成为一名聪明且富有创新精神的学生，离开学校时，他想在技术编程和软件开发方面开创自己的事业。他确切地知道该转向哪里。

沃伦很快被教师选为学院 ACE 项目空间的驻场企业家 (EiR)，这是一个交互式工作空间，供学生、企业家、企业和非营利组织用来协作并将独特的想法变为现实。

他最终在 2018 年担任了两个为期四个月的 EiR 任期，与他指导的商业信息技术专业的学生一起实践，业务技术管理，和信息安全 程序。在 ACE 项目空间，每个项目由两到五名学生组成的团队可以获得工作空间、技术和指导。

“Most of the entrepreneurs-in-residence in the ACE Project Space don’t come from a technical background as I did,” says Warren. Instead, most EiRs come to the program with a business idea that requires a technology-related solution, product or prototype. “That leaves the group of students to find the solution and build the technology stack. Creativity often comes into play as they research things and figure out what the best solution to build for the entrepreneur will be.”

“我知道他们在学校经历了什么，也知道他们有哪些才能。因此，我们在更复杂的技术堆栈上进行了更密切的合作，”沃伦继续说道。 “ACE 为 Jared 和我提供了较低的管理费用和接触学生的机会，因此我们可以作为一个团队使用更新的技术，而不必关注底线。我们可以继续专注于构建易于维护且持续维护成本较低的可持续技术。”

The software systems that Warren and his students started to build when they were in the ACE Project Space pivoted for him into the new company, .

“A lot of times, a company will build what is known as a monolithic system, shaped like a pyramid. It has a heavy base, and if you need to change something on the bottom, it’s very costly; very big and cumbersome,” he explains.

“At Karve, we build microservice architecture. Our microservice system is more like a children’s ball pit. Each one of our systems is an individual ball — they can interact with each other, you can move them around easily, and each node can interact with other nodes. Because we were able to build our technology in that way, we were able to pivot our software very quickly to adapt to different types of clienteles and other applications.”

Named for a mid-sized Viking ship with an agile design that allows it to be highly mobile and to immediately change course, Karve was founded in April 2021. A third-party investor had approached Warren and Kozak, at first interested in investing in the software platform they co-owned under DueNorth Systems.投资者是一家名为 Plank Ventures 的上市投资公司，要求进行天使交易并获得该公司的控股权。

However, DueNorth had developed relationships with several clients who were not part of the deal offered by Plank. “We had a pool of assets, and this investor wanted only a controlling share in a single asset, the platform,” says Warren. In a savvy business move, he and Kozak established Karve. “我们将平台从 DueNorth 卖给了 Karve，这使得 Plank（以及最终的其他人）可以自由地投资新公司，而 DueNorth 则保持不变。”

With Karve established and growing, Warren and Kozak quickly hired developers directly out of the ACE Project.

“We knew what the students were capable of, we knew what they had learned, and so we already had this crystal-clear picture of what they know. From a management perspective, if you know what your team knows, it’s easier to apply that knowledge and encourage them to continue to grow past that. It allowed us to propel that onboarding and training process by continuing to work with the ACE Project Space students.”

Alexander Rennie was hired first out of the ACE program, as Karve’s lead front-end developer. “当 Alexander 在 ACE 项目空间参与我们的项目时，我们看到了他的才华，我们帮助他培训了我们想要使用的技术。因此，现在我们有一名学生从学校毕业，精通我们需要他精通的知识。他态度很好，并且与团队文化契合，所以他加入我们是理所当然的，”Warren 说道。

不久之后，Warren 和 Kozak 聘请了另一位 ACE 学生 Jeremiah Ducut，作为他们的首席后端开发人员。

“我离开 ACE 项目空间后，耶利米正在从事另一个项目，但他是由教员推荐来的。亚历山大也认识并喜欢他，”他说。

Nigel Moore 的简介（创意传播，1998 年）