This is a good follow on article to the “Forces of Change” Series. . The Canadian socialist tendencies toward entrepreneurship are a bit perplexing and perhaps a significant contributing factor to our dismal performance in innovation. In my opinion socialism and entrepreneurship are indeed something of an oxymoron. Why then you might ask is thereContinue reading
TheCodeFactory friend and supporter Darren De Jean forwarded information regarding a workshop opportunity that may be of interest to Ottawa start-ups looking for some coin (and frankly who isn’t, looking for coin that is). CLF stands for Common Look and Feel and “The Treasury Board Secretariat” and “Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade” areContinue reading
Third (from Ben Casnocha presentation at the U of Waterloo on Oct 4th) and possibly the most important point regarding entrepreneurship is to take action. Ben gave a number of excellent quotes that speak to the importance of entrepreneurs being action oriented. Lots of people can come up with ideas, in fact probably everyone, butContinue reading
The Ottawa Network held the second in the series of 3 x 10 events on Seed Funding at TheCodeFactory. Our speakers were Shirley Speakman from MRIO (Ministry of Research and Innovation), IAF (Investment Accelerator Fund), Matt Williamson IPeak and Paul Dawalibi from St Lawrence Capital. The crowd was one of the more diverse I haveContinue reading
We at TheCodeFactory are always excited by news of success of our members and alumni. Check out this press release regarding Ottawa Start-up Exocortex. WAY TO GO BEN! Softimage Enters Strategic Development Relationship with Exocortex Technologies Industry-renowned innovator Ben Houston to develop next-generation fluid dynamics simulation technology leveraging the Softimage Interactive Creative Environment MONTRÉAL, Québec,Continue reading
I had the opportunity to attend Ben Casnocha and Fred Ngo presentation in the student life centre at the University of Waterloo. I wanted to take the time to share my learning’s with blog readers. There are some excellent lessons learned from both entrepreneurs and some interesting similarities between the two presentations. Here is theContinue reading
I am taking the train to Waterloo tonight and checking out Ben Casnocha and Fred Ngo’s presentation tomorrow. I am really jazzed about this opportunity. What an AWESOME looking event “Entrepreneur Week“. The line up for this event is just spectacular, wish I could stay for the whole week. Fred and I will be onContinue reading
Thank you very much to Scott Lake yesterday for his words of wisdom at our “Been there done that” lunch and learn session. Thank you as well to Cameron from Lang Michner who were kind enough to sponsor the session. While there were certainly many lessons learned from Scott, what I found most interesting wasContinue reading