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Mix09, ETech, SxSW & Web2Expo
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High-Tech Tools for Social Change
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Communitech to work together with Microsoft to support BizSpark program
Communitech recently announced it will work together with Microsoft to support the BizSpark Program - the software giant’s effort to help put tech startups on the fast track to success. Bi... [read more]
Communitech to work together with Microsoft to support BizSpark program
Communitech recently announced it will work together with Microsoft to support the BizSpark Program - the software giant’s effort to help put tech startups on the fast track to success. Bi... [read more]
Communitech to work together with Microsoft to support BizSpark program
Communitech recently announced it will work together with Microsoft to support the BizSpark Program - the software giant’s effort to help put tech startups on the fast track to success. Bi... [read more]
Communitech to work together with Microsoft to support BizSpark program
Communitech recently announced it will work together with Microsoft to support the BizSpark Program - the software giant’s effort to help put tech startups on the fast track to success. Bi... [read more]
Communitech to work together with Microsoft to support BizSpark program
Communitech recently announced it will work together with Microsoft to support the BizSpark Program - the software giant’s effort to help put tech startups on the fast track to success. Bi... [read more]
Communitech to work together with Microsoft to support BizSpark program
Communitech recently announced it will work together with Microsoft to support the BizSpark Program - the software giant’s effort to help put tech startups on the fast track to success. Bi... [read more]
How do you deal with a mess in your CSS?
Quick question. If you have multiple devs working on a few different screens, each monkeying with CSS, it takes very little time to end up with a huge mess of CSS. How do you deal with that? Do you:Del... [read more]
Software, support & visibility
It’s funny, I’ve asked about startups building on .NET in the past. And with the development of programs like BizSpark the continued support of events like StartupCampMontreal and Founders & Funder... [read more]
IAF announced funding 8 companies
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How much do you make for selling wine?
The article “Passionate oenophile finds niche” is found on Financial Post. It comments on the profit margin for importing wine — 15% margin. For example, $1.2 million revenue would be... [read more]
LawyerLocate.ca Member named “Lawyer of the Week”
Daniel A. Lublin, a Toronto Employment Lawyer, was named “Lawyer of the Week“ by The Lawyers Weekly in December 2008. You can read the review on-line by clicking here.
Tackling the biggest problem in Higher Education
Karlyn Morissette has set her ’biggest problem in Higher Education’ on the total inefficacy of higher education institution and how that is enshrined in the culture. I agree. From my viewpo... [read more]
CEOs paid in Canada
“Prepared by economist Hugh Mackenzie, the report finds the top 100 chief executive officers of publicly traded corporations averaged more than $10 million in pay apiece in 2007, the most recent ... [read more]
Cosmetic in Canada
On my way to Blue Mountain yesterday (Thank you again for Dora’s invite and Carmen’s transportation arrangement), I was reading an article “Cosmetic sales an eye-opener” (See li... [read more]
Discover Music
This is the new commercial from Sirius Radio. Great ad! I was touched while I was watching it! Great job!
109 things
Welcome to 2009. The new year means it’s been a little more than two years, 109 weeks actually, since I started working for myself. When I passed my first anniversary, I wrote up a post of 53 hig... [read more]
Looking back at 2008 and forward to 2009
Following what was an interesting 2007, 2008 proved to be one of personal and professional growth. Here is my reflection/projection post for the year. Personally: Probably the oddest thing about the la... [read more]
Happy New Year
Year 2009 is the year of challenge! This is the time to truly show what we are capable of. We need to be focus, to be consistent, and to be forward-looking. Things may not turn out as expected; however... [read more]
My *secret* NYE dish
Some attentions has been caught on my Facebook. So what is my so-call *secret* NYE dish? This is a secret dish because I haven’t finalized what to bring to tonight’s housewarming/NYE party ... [read more]
Smartphone arena in 2008
This is a rather interesting but not too surprising article on Toronto Star this afternoon. The article title is “The year the cellphone changed forever” (see below). It primarily talks abo... [read more]
LinkedIn Apps for WordPress
LinkedIn has rolled out Applications which enhances the user interactivity with their platform. WordPress Apps is the one that I am particular interested in since I have been using WordPress for awhile... [read more]
Merry Christmas!
It's Christmas, there is snow on the ground, and there are gifts strewn about our family room. Even the dogs are playing with their new bones. Merry Christmas to all!Powered by Bleezer
What is X’mas to you?
X’mas is the season of giving. Sharing your joy and happiness to people around you. With the Internet, you can also share them to people around the world! To make everyone feel warm and special i... [read more]
Common Pitfalls of Market Sizing
Rick Segal published a post last week titled The Great Myth of Market Size. The topic of market size has been on my to do list for a while so I thought it would be a good time to share my experiences. ... [read more]
Common Pitfalls of Market Sizing
Rick Segal published a post last week titled The Great Myth of Market Size. The topic of market size has been on my to do list for a while so I thought it would be a good time to share my experiences. ... [read more]
Congratulations to Jonathan Howard
Jonathan Howard completes his 10 month, 8020 km, cross-Canada run, known as Run The Dream today. There is a re-post of the press release giving details of this remarkable quest and fundraiser for Autis... [read more]
The things we take for granted.
Via Captain Capitalism by way of small dead animals.Technorati: lifePowered by Bleezer
When Adwords go Terribly Wrong (Oops)
Recently, someone at Well.ca (I won’t name names…) had the brilliant idea of creating a test campaign of adwords purchasing thousands of words based stuff including tags associated with pro... [read more]
Ray Simonson Video Replay of MaRS Entrepreneurship 101
Ray Simonson, successful serial entrepreneur and consummate storyteller talks of his first startup and exit. Sure to inspire any budding entrepreneur, even in these challenging times. [[Summary only.]]
Everyone wants money.
I started reading my morning paper today, only to find that everyone wants money. It started with the headline about Detroit auto companies demanding to be bailed out. Then the Grand Philharmonic Choir... [read more]
Was 2008 the Year of The Semantic Web?
In the November/December edition of the Semantic Web Gang we looked back at the Semantic Web highlights of 2008, after discussing the recent launch of Glue from AdaptiveBlue.
Apparently size does matter.
A recent survey indicates that women may prefer the internet to sex:An online survey commissioned by Intel has found, among other things, that 46% of women would rather go without sex for two weeks tha... [read more]
“People Levers” – Working with people generations apart
Bob, 57, a senior sales director, prints out his client emails, annotates them, and files them in a banker’s box – he refuses to use the corporate CRM. Iris, 23, has been with the company for 12 weeks,... [read more]
“People Levers” – Working with people generations apart
Bob, 57, a senior sales director, prints out his client emails, annotates them, and files them in a banker’s box – he refuses to use the corporate CRM. Iris, 23, has been with the company for 12 weeks,... [read more]
“People Levers” – Working with people generations apart
Bob, 57, a senior sales director, prints out his client emails, annotates them, and files them in a banker’s box – he refuses to use the corporate CRM. Iris, 23, has been with the company for 12 weeks,... [read more]
“People Levers” – Working with people generations apart
Bob, 57, a senior sales director, prints out his client emails, annotates them, and files them in a banker’s box – he refuses to use the corporate CRM. Iris, 23, has been with the company for 12 weeks,... [read more]
“People Levers” – Working with people generations apart
Bob, 57, a senior sales director, prints out his client emails, annotates them, and files them in a banker’s box – he refuses to use the corporate CRM. Iris, 23, has been with the company for 12 weeks,... [read more]
“People Levers” – Working with people generations apart
Bob, 57, a senior sales director, prints out his client emails, annotates them, and files them in a banker’s box – he refuses to use the corporate CRM. Iris, 23, has been with the company for 12 weeks,... [read more]
Tips for the new entrepreneur, courtesy of Miovision’s CEO
Much celebrating at the Accelerator Centre yesterday, during “graduation ceremonies” for Miovision – the latest start-up to leave the relative safety and security of the AC and its bu... [read more]
Tips for the new entrepreneur, courtesy of Miovision’s CEO
Much celebrating at the Accelerator Centre yesterday, during “graduation ceremonies” for Miovision – the latest start-up to leave the relative safety and security of the AC and its bu... [read more]
Tips for the new entrepreneur, courtesy of Miovision’s CEO
Much celebrating at the Accelerator Centre yesterday, during “graduation ceremonies” for Miovision – the latest start-up to leave the relative safety and security of the AC and its bu... [read more]
Tips for the new entrepreneur, courtesy of Miovision’s CEO
Much celebrating at the Accelerator Centre yesterday, during “graduation ceremonies” for Miovision – the latest start-up to leave the relative safety and security of the AC and its bu... [read more]
Tips for the new entrepreneur, courtesy of Miovision’s CEO
Much celebrating at the Accelerator Centre yesterday, during “graduation ceremonies” for Miovision – the latest start-up to leave the relative safety and security of the AC and its bu... [read more]
Tips for the new entrepreneur, courtesy of Miovision’s CEO
Much celebrating at the Accelerator Centre yesterday, during “graduation ceremonies” for Miovision – the latest start-up to leave the relative safety and security of the AC and its bu... [read more]
Blogging Azure
Microsoft released the initial details about the cloud computing platform at PDC in October. The platform is roughly a 3 layered approach. Best I can figure it’s very similar to an existing server conf... [read more]
Managing People is not a Science
The most important lesson I’ve learned when it comes to managing, coaching, and teaching people is that there is no silver bullet. There is no single management methodology or formula that works ... [read more]
Passively Updated Microblogging For Business
Two companies (at least) are trying to apply the concept of Twitter to business intranets. This starts to sound more exciting when you wrap your head around the promise: complete elimination of status ... [read more]
Facebook and Canadian Innovation
Albert Lai sent me a link to his blog post about 60% Facebook Fund Phase 2 investments being Canadian. Each of these “winners” recieved US$250,000 with “no strings attached” (the initial US$25,000 gran... [read more]