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.
The event featured a keynote address from Canada’s governor general, David Johnston, and Ottawa mayor Jim Watson presented the key to the city to the organization for “a job very well done.” Fittingly, Jim Durrell, who was mayor of Ottawa and supported CFO when it was first organized, also offered a few words. He said, quite truthfully, that the event welcomed “the very best of Ottawa.”
More than 500 people attended the event and saw performances from local artists, including The Joynt, who opened with a rap called CapCity, the inclusive dance works company Propeller Dance, and the Leading Note’s Children’s Choir, which sang Waving Flag. Award-winning videos from the CFO’s supported organizations were also presented, including those of the Ottawa Humane Society, Rotary Home and CompuCorps.
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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 globally upon or shortly after inception.
The lessons in this series are extracted from reading the literature and examining 21 companies that globalized early and rapidly. They were first published in the October issue of the TIM Review, a journal that provides free and unlimited online access to high-quality articles about technology and global entrepreneurship.
Part one covered the lessons learned from the literature. This post will share the lessons learned from examining publicly available information on 21 startups in 12 countries that globalized early and rapidly.
The three main findings are as follows:
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By Alexandra Reid
Two content marketing all-stars, Katherine Fletcher and Darin Diehl, presented at Social Media Breakfast Ottawa on Wednesday on how businesses can use rich, interactive content to increase brand awareness, build communities and generate leads.
Katherine is the senior vice-president, senior partner and managing director of digital at High Road Communications, an interactive communications agency. She was also appointed in 2007 as a global chair for Fleishman-Hillard’s international digital practice group where she works with a small, global team of digital leaders to drive innovative digital communications with specialists worldwide.
Darin is the assistant vice-president of digital communications at Sun Life Financial Canada, and the leader of the team that developed BrighterLife.ca, a social media-powered, consumer-focused portal where Canadians can engage with the brand and each other about financial challenges and opportunities they face in their everyday lives.
Katherine and Darin developed and executed the content marketing program that would support the launch and ongoing success of BrighterLife.ca. On Wednesday, they explained the efforts that went on behind the scenes that helped it become an award-winning site. I also had the opportunity to chat with Katherine before the show to glean some more details about their content marketing program.
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By Tony Bailetti
Entrepreneurs need access to the knowledge, approaches, methods, and tools they require to globalize their startups early and rapidly.
For the purpose of this series, globalization refers to the process by which a company meets the needs of a global market, one which integrates many formerly domestic markets including the company’s home market. A global market is the result of nation-states breaking down barriers to international trade, shifts to market economies, mobility of talent and capital, and advances in transportation, information, and communications technology.
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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 approach that sees athlete funding going disproportionately to those who show the best promise of winning a medal, Tewksbury said we have to move away from the old Canadian funding model. That approach, he said, sees government spread its limited funds across too many recipients, ensuring that nobody starves but also that nobody gets the resources they really need to succeed. As Tewksbury put it, funding before Own the Podium was “one for me, one for you,” ensuring “one for me-diocrity.”
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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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Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes inspires hometown crowd: Video
November 08, 2012 by Accelerate Okanagan
Ryan Holmes, CEO and founder of HootSuite, gave an inspirational talk as part of the ignITE speaker series in the Okanagan about his journey as an entrepreneur, followed by a fireside chat and Q&A with Jeff Keen, CEO of Accelerate Okanagan […]
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Give capitalists the ball, let them run
November 07, 2012 by Leo Valiquette
The Ottawa-Gatineau economy, according to the Conference Board’s Mario Lefebvre, is one that cannot be counted down and out. That was the sentiment he delivered last week at Forecasting Ottawa’s Economic Future, an inaugural event that featured his outlook for the local economy and a panel discussion with frank perspectives from several of Ottawa’s business leaders […]
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CMI-MarketingProfs report reveals B2B content marketing confusion
November 06, 2012 by Alexandra Reid
Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs recently released a report on the state of B2B content marketing in North America that declared, “B2B marketers are spending more, using more tactics, and distributing their content on more social networks than they […]
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The neuroscience behind elections
November 05, 2012 by Bob Bailly
Over a year ago I wrote a blog entitled Election emotion, where I looked at an article from Margaret Wente in the Globe and Mail. In it, she examined how decision are made during elections. I’ve always been intrigued by electioneering, and must admit in my career to […]
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October roundup: What does it take to bring technology to market?
November 02, 2012 by Alexandra Reid
As usual, we covered a lot of ground on our blog over the last month […]
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