This past weekend, in my role as President of The Ottawa Network, I had a great experience working with more than 50 aspiring entrepreneurs as they formed teams and competed for $5000 in seed money to start a new enterprise at the first ever Ottawa Network Startup Boot Camp. Together with my peers on the [...]
Best selling author of ‘The Tipping Point,’ ‘Blink’ and ‘Outliers’ and staff writer for The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell will be in Ottawa at the NAC on June 11. Using anecdotes, fresh insights and engaging stories he will leave you brimming with ideas and creative solutions – no matter what your line of work [...]
Do you truly understand the value your customers place on your product offering? Your approach to product development will directly affect your ability to create money-making products your customers must have versus products that provide no value to customers and contribute nothing to your bottom line. Developing a must have product instead of a lame-duck [...]
Welcome to our initial blog post. Our blogging will focus on topics related to driving technology based businesses. We’ll cover corporate strategy, marketing, collaboration, innovation, new product introduction (NPI), business development, etc. So why these topics? What can possibly be new here? Well, in our view, these topics are fundamental to [...]