This is the fourth post in the Transitioning to Entrepreneurship and what to expect or employee to entrepreneur series. Photo Attribution: HA1-000674 by Highways Agency If you find spending time in long boring meetings uninspired, would rather do something tangible than write a 40 page report or prefer to be accountable for the results youContinue reading →

The transition from industrial to knowledge epoch has been marked by profound and significant changes. I had originally blogged about the macro level changes back in August of 2008 with posts: Forces of Change, Business Model Migration, Decline of the TV industrial complex and (from December 2009) Rise of the micro-multinatnional. At a national andContinue reading →

The global economic outlook is very uncertain and there are those reading this post that would likely say: “This will strike many as a profoundly gloomy message.” which is a direct quote from the Drummond Report. However, the current economic reality is that we are in times of significant change that will be framed byContinue reading →

If was four years ago on February 29th, 2008 that the rubber hit the road for TheCodeFactory. The lease was signed we had a space and everything was real. Time to look back over the four years and reflect on some of the many small victories and great people met along the way. We areContinue reading →

Students want meaningful and relevant employment. Start-ups want energetic and enthusiastic employees. Sign up for SNS-12 is here: www.sns-12.eventbrite.com This is the premise of Students and Start-ups. We have had 11 previous events with 24 confirmed hires many of which are on our YouTube Channel (TheCodeFactory). There are 6 start-ups signed up for SNS-12: BlindsideContinue reading →

I’ll be speaking toward the end of February on transitioning to entrepreneurship and what to expect. The presentation will be turned into an ~15 part blog post series that I’ll start writing today. So … where to begin … well at the beginning of course. I like to use mind maps and find for aContinue reading →

Let’s start by looking back … way back. In 2001 Ottawa was a tier 1 technology center acknowledged as “Silicon Valley North” a world leader in Telecommunications, Semi-conductor … Tier 1 … World Class. Fast forward a decade and Ottawa is still in the news “Which Canadian city will be 2012’s Silicon Valley North” andContinue reading →

Long before starting TheCodeFactory I had blogged extensively about the challenges and opportunities facing the Ottawa Tech community. Topics covered everything from funding to entrepreneurial support systems. One of my favourite posts and IMHO one worth revisiting is called; The Entrepreneurial Hockey Analogy written on April 3rd, 2007 (roughly the same time as TheCodeFactory ahaContinue reading →

When is Students and Start-ups 12? Date: Tentatively Monday February 13th, 2012 Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm Location: @TheCodeFactory of course! Who is it for? Student registration is here: http://sns-12.eventbrite.com computer science, engineering and programming STUDENTS are looking for work in the next 3 months. START-UPS looking to hire technical students in the next 3 months.Continue reading →

This is the second in a series of blog posts on the inevitable change that is coming our way in the next couple of years. It is difficult and irresponsible to put a finite time frame on the gathering economic storm because the economy is irrational and sets its own schedule. Prior to the onsetContinue reading →