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Startup Boot Camp Experience

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 [...]

Win a Pair of Malcolm Gladwell Tix

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 [...]

Is your Startup in Trouble? What now?

My last blog post covered why launching a startup in a downturn can be a good thing.  So what if you’re already well into your startup and the 2009 economy has you running scared?  What now?

Hang in there and persevere, reputations are made in bad times more so than in good times.

Building on how Jason [...]

Mini-Crowds Will Drive Your Strategy

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 [...]