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High Tech? Ensure You Know About the IRAP Small Project Accellerated Review...
Posted in Best practices, Business, Canada, Commercialization, Creative Class, Economy, Ecosystems, Entreprenuerism, General Interest, Government, Government Policy, Information Technology, Innovation,...
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Ottawa Tech Jobs Melting Away
The Ottawa-Gatineau unemployment rate took a sharp jump recently and currently sits at 5.2%. Under the surface, the situation for tech jobs is increasingly serious. In Ottawa-Gatineau technology jobs...
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Lead to Win Program Update – April 25th
CTV Ottawa News Coverage This Sunday! Tune-in to CTV Ottawa TECH NOW with Paul Brent on April 26th at 6PM for a special report on Lead to Win! City of Ottawa, Carleton University and Business – United...
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Lead to Win Videos
Message from Dr Tony Bailetti for Prospective Lead to Win Participants Testimonial from Jerry Everett, President of onconference Want more information? Visit the Lead to Win website at...
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Lead to Win May-June Sessions
The 2009 Lead to Win program kicked-off this week. The program was originally planned to support 30 participants per session. Due to overwhelming demand from highly qualified candidates the program...
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Broadband Infrastructure Projects for Economic Development
A recent report from OECD advocates government policy makers deploy stimulus funds and investment into broadband infrastructure - Broadband infrastructure, in particular, can be a good target for...
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Canadian Small Businesses Outlook Improving
Survey results from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business showed some improving outlooks among small business owners polled: 38% considered the condition of their business to be “good”, 18%...
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US and Canada Job Losses Continue – May Numbers
Latest unemployment numbers today: Canada – 8.4% (highest in 11 years ) – Ontario is now at 9.4% (highest in 15 years) US – 9.2% (up from 8.9% in April) Other interesting lists: US Economy at a Glance...
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Nortel Collapse and Kanata Future
“Nortel’s collapse could spell the doom for the industry and trigger an exodus of high-tech companies from north Kanata.” Posted in Business, Canada, Economy, General Interest, Government, Government...
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INTERESTED IN LAUNCHING A NEW TECH BUSINESS? LEAD TO WIN WANTS TO HELP YOU!
Here is a recent call for participants from Dr Tony Bailetti for the 3rd session of the Lead to Win program which starts on July 28th – please spread the word! INTERESTED IN LAUNCHING A NEW TECH...
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Fewer People Dying?
According to the Globe and Mail today - the funeral industry is in decline due to a decline in the death rate. Posted in Business, Canada, depression 2.0, Economy, General Interest, Jobs, Trends,...
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Robert Half Technology IT Jobs Outlook Released
Robert Half Technology issued data on IT jobs outlook this week, key findings from their survey: Technology executives attribute staff reductions largely to reduced IT budgets and company wide layoffs...
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BDC Gas Tank is Filled Up!
Industry Canada announced on Monday that they will be providing additional funding for BDC. The funding allocation includes $350M for BDC‘s venture capital activities that will allow it to make...
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Lead to Win Reception
Lead to Win held a reception on Monday evening for participants and supporters. Special guests included the Mayor of Gatineau and the acting Mayor of Ottawa. Both expressed their support for the...
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OBJ Articles on Nortel
For you ex-Nortel and Nortel types – in case you haven’t seen it – Elizabeth Howell at the Ottawa Business Journal is running a three-part story on Nortel, the first two installments have been...
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Canadian Venture Capital Investment Down 42%
The CVCA has released their Q2 2009 Venture Investment data. Venture investment down 42% from 2008 - $179M in 2009 compared to $309 at the same point in 2008. Average deal size decreased to $1.9M from...
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Purple Forge is Hiring
Purple Forge has two immediate openings: iPhone developer (full time) Website developer (part time) Visit http://www.leadtowin.ca/jobs/app/ for more information. Posted in Business, Canada,...
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Carleton and Ottawa University Publish World Leading Research on Zombie Plagues
A recently published research paper from professors at Carleton and Ottawa University has determined that A zombie outbreak is likely to lead to the collapse of civilisation, unless it is dealt with...
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The Entrepreneurial Effect
I am involved in a new book that is now out. Members of the local Ottawa tech community have gotten together to produce a new book called “the Entrepreneurial Effect” with the foreword by Terry...
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Lead to Win – November Session Accepting Applications!
The Lead to Win program is accepting applications for the November session. If you are interested in creating your own company – check out the program at http://www.leadtowin.ca. Spaces are limited and...
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Social “Things” and E-democracy
Social networks and services offer interesting possibilities for the future of e-democracy. E-democracy is a combination of the words “electronic” and democracy.” E-democracy represents the use of...
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Social Networking + Mobile = Next Killer App
Morgan Stanley recently published data on key economy and internet trends. The presentation is available online at various locations, including SlideShare below: Some key highlights: Mobile internet...
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Latest Employment Stats for October
Region Unemployment Rate Ottawa 5.2% Gatineau 5.9% Ontario 9.3% Canada 8.6% U.S. 10.2% (26 year high) / 17.5% (including underemployed) The Globe and Mail has this interactive webpage that gives...
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H1N1 Useful Links
Ottawa H1N1 Vaccination Clinics Public Health Canada – H1N1 Website Public Health Canada – Deaths Associated with H1N1 flu virus in Canada Interactive Map of H1N1 Cases Across Canada United States CDC...
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Canadian Business Barometer October 2009
CFIB’s Business Barometer® Index dropped to 67.0 in October, from 68.7 a month earlier. Measured on a scale between 0 and 100, an index level above 50 means owners expecting their business’...
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Key Economic Indicators
CIBC publishes two documents that provide a good summary of key economic indicators for US and Canada: Key Canadian Economic Indicators Table Key U.S. Economic Indicators Table The Economist publishes...
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U.S. Imports from Canada down 50%
Import declines seem to have hit bottom and are now on the way up. ref: Economic Research Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis Posted in Business, Canada, depression 2.0, Economy, General Interest,...
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Ottawa-Gatineau #9 in Small Business Growth
Ottawa-Gatineau is #9 in small business growth among Canadian CMA’s (Census Metropolitan Areas): Some Interesting Statistics Small businesses employed roughly five million people in 2008, comprising...
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Pharmaceuticals to Replace Telecom as Canada’s Top R&D Spenders?
RESEARCH Infosource released a report last week titled “Canada’s Top 100 Corporate R&D Spenders List 2009 Analysis“ Canada’s communications/telecom sector was the number one R&D spend – with...
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Ottawa University #8 in Research Income in 2008
Research Infosource published a report titled “Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities List 2009 Analysis“. Ottawa University came in #8… unfortunately Carleton University didn’t make the list. Posted in...
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Looking for a Tech Job? Move to Waterloo…
According to this Globe and Mail news report - Jobs disconnect in RIM’s hometown apparently there are over 2,000 tech jobs that are open… A related article from the Globe and Mail identifies who is...
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Smart Phones, New Politics
Purple Forge Ottawa Citizen – Smart Phones, New Politics Posted in Business, Canada, Canadian Politics, Ecosystems, Entreprenuerism, General Interest, Government, Government Policy, Innovation, Jobs,...
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Social Networking and New Media Stats
Survey stats as of April 3, 2010 from Purple Forge iPhone applications show that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are the top 3 social networking/media applications used by Purple Forge application users...
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Ottawa-Gatineau Tech Jobs Lowest in 5 years
According to the latest from Stats Canada, Ottawa-Gatineau tech jobs have hit a new five-year low: The technology sector bled another 800 jobs, dropping to 46,900, a new five-year low. Layoffs at...
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Go West! To Waterloo…
Waterloo companies are looking for tech workers - WATERLOO REGION, ON, April 13 /CNW/ – Some of Canada’s hottest tech companies will head to the nation’s capital to look for talent when Communitech,...
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Mobile App Companies in the Ottawa Region
UPDATED: go here http://purplejunction.com/2012/08/25/updated-mobile-companies-in-ottawa/ ———- There has been a lot of interest in the mobile app development cluster in Ottawa. I recently took an...
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Government Grants, Loans and Financing
Yesterday I attended the TiE event on “Leveraging Government Funding – Sources and Strategies”. It was a good session. For any aspiring entrepreneur in Ottawa, I highly recommend joining the TiE...
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The Top Entrepreneur Organizations in Ottawa
If you are an entrepreneur in the Ottawa region working on launching or growing your start-up, the following organizations have the most to offer: The Ottawa Network – Networking events – connect with...
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Smartphones reduce accessibility barriers by 45% (or more)
The economics of mobile smart phones and mobile service are reducing the financial barriers to access the Internet. People who in the past might not otherwise be able to afford to access the...
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UPDATED: Mobile App Companies in Ottawa
There is a lot of interest in the mobile app development cluster in Ottawa. I have been maintaining an inventory of companies in Ottawa who are/were developing mobile apps or mobile related software....
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