This is a good follow up to the Sunny Day Umberella post. If there is no funding out there then what do you do? Well I’d start by saying have a listen to a few of the start-ups that are going about it under their own steam. We are fortunate to have three of Ottawa’s finest bootstrappers on tap tomorrow night at TheCodeFactory. The theme of the event is bootstrapping for success and our speakers are:

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Nikhil Adnani, CEO, thinkRF
Nikhil has over twelve years of experience in the area of  wireless.  He has held engineering positions at Nortel and Communications Research Centre Canada. Nikhil has a BSc and an MSc from the University of Manitoba and a  PhD from Carleton University, all in Electrical Engineering.

Jay Lawrence, CEO, Infonium
Jay is an entrepreneur in the software industry specializing in performance in third party governance environments. He has proven experience in leading the development of effective software applications suitable for enterprise deployment. Jay and his company Infonium are leaders in Performance Governance.

Mike Ball, CTO, Loyalty Match
Mike has over 22 years experience building and leading high technology development companies. Mike was one of the architects of Bell Sympatico and Advantage Business Internet Solutions, served as VP Technology for SpiderTop Rich Media Internet Corporation, and is an accomplished game developer and author. He is a computer science graduate of Confederation College and a member of OACETT.

Ian Graham
 

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