When you think about your business, any business but start-ups in particular. There are arguably two types of tasks that you perform; Value adds tasks and administrative tasks. Value Add tasks are good because they create goodwill for your company and contribute positively to your top line. Administrative and backend tasks that are required toContinue reading
TheCodeFactory survey is online and live until this Saturday at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=NDZgQRZCJaFrwSmtAIrmNQ_3d_3d If you are thinking about finding your own space within the next year we would like to hear from you. TheCodeFactory is an early stage business accelerator intended to help entrepreneurs and start-ups improve productivity, better manage costs and minimize the risks associated withContinue reading
Fred Ngo from Montreal is in the process of starting out on a bold new adventure called standout jobs. We here at TheCodeFactory wish Fred and all the folks at Standout jobs great success. I also believe that there is the opportunity for start-ups to learn from their experience. Fred’s’ recent post “The Wild andContinue reading
Had a great meeting this morning with Peter, Scott Lake, Craig Fitzpatrick and myslef. It seems that many of us here in Ottawa are on the same wavelength. That wavelength being the one were we want to take some positive steps to help bring the start-up community together. In fact it is even more thanContinue reading
I am even keener on the idea of an open source cluster after reading an article in National Capital Scan by Denzil Doyle in his column Loud and Clear entitled “Risk Money for High Tech”. The article is on the second page of the PDF found at this link: http://www.nationalcapitalscan.ca/news/print_editions/files/060107SCAN.pdf The gist of the articleContinue reading
The Ottawa tech sector has a number of cluster initiatives and the cluster program that seems to be working quite well in Ottawa. Kudos to OCRI for supporting the clusters. Little known to many people in the Ottawa Tech community there is a burgeoning new centre of excellence and potential new cluster already in process.Continue reading
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What do you get when you cross the Industrial Revolution, with Knowledge Based Start-ups? . Why … “The Code Factory” of course. . Word of “The Code Factory” hit the airwaves in Ottawa tonight at DemoCamp4 and the announcement seemed to be of resonate many of those in attendance. In fact it even dwarfed theContinue reading
We are making progress on the Code Factory and lining up a number of ducks. In fact one of the ducks we are trying to line up is to quantify the level of interest from the community. Therefore we have drafted a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) that can serve as an expression of interest. IfContinue reading
The organization is changing and “The Code Factory” is an reflection of this type of change. In the past organizations had been very hierarchical and structured. The movement today is toward a more loosely coupled organization based on ecology. This is evident in the number of independents and small businesses adopting different models of operation. Barcamp andContinue reading