By Peter Hanschke
Welcome to the second post on my journey toward building a mobile app. In my last post, I talked about why I decided to write my own app. In a nutshell, I’ve never had the opportunity to product manage myself through the process of app development, so I thought this would be an interesting exercise. I don’t plan on revealing the nature of my app until the last post, so, until then, I’m charting the process along the way.
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By Alexandra Reid
Maple Leaf Angels is working with Canadian Women in Technology to create investment opportunities between angels and women-led startup companies.
More than 60 angel investors, entrepreneurs, partners and sponsors filled a room in Toronto last week to hear about why such investments are vital for Canada and to listen to pitches from some high-potential early-stage technology companies led by women.
In her speech, Dr. Cindy Gordon, a startup founder and former VC who also co-founded MLA, directed the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance and chaired CanWit, brought some valuable context to the conversation.
“In order for us to really be successful in supporting women in technology, we have to recognize that we have some fundamental issues that are catastrophic to this country,” said Dr. Gordon. “This is not a women’s issue. It’s a business imperative.”
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By Alexandra Reid
As a regular feature, we provide our readers with a roundup of some of the best articles we have read in the past week. On the podium this week are Mark Suster, Joseph Jaffe, Milo Yiannopoulos, Marla Capozzi and Ari Kellen, David Meerman Scott, Peter Cohen and Mikael Cho.
Entrepreneurshit: the blog post on what it’s really like
What’s it really like to be an entrepreneur? Mark Suster tells first-time wantrapreneurs that it’s far from the glamorous life depicted in the press.
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By Francis Moran
Edit: Edited to add quotes from Victoria Lennox
The results of the largest consultation ever undertaken within the community of Canadian entrepreneurs and their supporters will be unveiled in a series of six cross-country news conferences on Tuesday when Startup Canada releases its national Action Plan. The plan is the outcome of a five-month national tour that Startup Canada conducted between May and September this year that touched down in all 10 provinces and altogether engaged more than 20,000 Canadians in person and another 50,000 online.
Several common themes emerged from the more than 200 town hall meetings, expert discussions, forums and other events that Startup Canada and its more than 300 partners organised during the tour. These themes and the actions that entrepreneurs all across the country said need to be taken are captured in Startup Blueprints, an ambitious new online platform that will also be unveiled on Tuesday. Startup Blueprints shares the reflections and ideas that Startup Canada heard from entrepreneurs who participated in hundreds of conversations across the country. It paints a clear path that Canadians passionate about entrepreneurship can follow together to cultivate a more vibrant and successful entrepreneurial culture in Canada.
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By Megan Totka
Before businesses began to really cash in on the power of social media, people were signing up for Twitter, Facebook and MySpace accounts in the privacy of their homes. These platforms allowed a new medium for self-expression, along with networking opportunities. Businesses began to see the advantages of connecting with their customers and started using social media, too. Just over five years into the social media boom, it is not uncommon to see individual accounts with hundreds, or even thousands, of followers or friends. While there is nothing wrong with being popular in online circles, an unexpected consequence has arisen for businesses: co-branded employees.
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Celebrating 25 years of community support
November 20, 2012 by Alexandra Reid
The Community Foundation of Ottawa yesterday celebrated a quarter of a century supporting nonprofit organizations in Ottawa with a memorable event at the Ottawa Convention Centre’s Trillium ballroom […]
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Lessons for entrepreneurs who wish to globalize their startups upon inception: Part 2
November 19, 2012 by Tony Bailetti
This is part two of a two-part series that throws the spotlight on the need to develop prescriptive rules and practitioner-oriented models that can help technology startups operate global upon or shortly after inception […]
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How to create brighter lives with content marketing
November 16, 2012 by Alexandra Reid
Two content marketing all-stars, Katherine Fletcher and Darin Diehl, presented at Social Media Breakfast Ottawa yesterday on how businesses can use rich, interactive content to increase brand awareness, build communities and generate leads […]
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Lessons for entrepreneurs who wish to globalize their startups upon inception
November 14, 2012 by Tony Bailetti
Entrepreneurs need access to the knowledge, approaches, methods, and tools they require to globalize their startups early and rapidly.
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The subsistence diet of government — and some VC — funding
November 14, 2012 by Francis Moran
Former Canadian Olympic gold medalist and chef de mission Mark Tewksbury gave a keynote address at the National Angel Capital Organization’s summit in Halifax in late October. In urging that Canadian business adopt the Olympic movement’s Own the Podium […]
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Hey, kid, I hear you want to be an entrepreneur
November 13, 2012 by Leo Valiquette
“This is the most manic depressive way you could possibly live life. You’re never having a good day. You’re either having the best day ever, or you are thinking you are about to die.” So begins the trailer for The Startup Kids, a documentary about […]
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Great articles roundup: freemium, firing the founder, the Dropbox effect, corporate accelerators, and higher ed entrepreneurship
November 09, 2012 by Alexandra Reid
As a regular feature, we provide our readers with a roundup of some of the best articles we have read in the past week. On the podium this week are TechCrunch, The New York Times, VentureBeat and Bloomberg Businessweek […]
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