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by Rob Lewis
on Thu, March 18, 2010 4:38 PM
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On Tuesday, March 23rd the Vancouver Enterprise Forum (VEF) is hosting Winning the Cleantech Game – Real Growth Stories hosted by Yaletown Venture Partners' Kirk Washington.
Cleantech is one of the fastest growing areas of technology in BC and the VEF have assembled a panel of Cleantech CEOs that are leading...
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by Rob Lewis
on Thu, March 18, 2010 3:22 PM
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The 10th annual New Ventures BC (NVBC) competition begins April 19th and there is $300,000 in prize packages up for grabs for BC technology entrepreneurs and inventors. The five-month, four-round competition includes a unique mix of business education, networking and mentoring and is well worth entering if you have a...
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on Thu, March 18, 2010 9:57 AM
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Are you a first time CEO or founder worried about how to take your new technology to market? On behalf of the Discovery Foundation Education Program, ACETECH is delivering a Market Entry Program for very early stage technology companies.
Taught by Ralph Turfus, the program provides a structured process...
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by Rob Lewis
on Wed, March 17, 2010 1:47 PM
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With all the talk of Canadian brain drain to the United States and the lack of a strong tech startup ecosystem in Canada, it's great to hear about companies like San Francisco-born A Thinking Ape moving the opposite way.
Founded by three twenty-something Canadians who met in the Bay Area, A...
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by Karim Kanji
on Wed, March 17, 2010 1:09 PM
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As a professional in the technology or social media space, chances are that you are an independent contractor or are considered a small business owner. A new online business solution is now available to those of you whose most dreaded job is accounting and bookkeeping: Wave Accounting. Kirk Simpson is...
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by Rob Lewis
on Tue, March 9, 2010 3:50 PM
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Today Business Week's Michael Arndt added Vancouver's Indochino to their America's Most Promising Startups list - an ongoing series profiling new companies from across the country that embody the creativity and resilience common among today's entrepreneurs.
In a profile titled This Business Suits the Internet, Arndt tells the story of how...
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by Varun Mathur
on Tue, March 9, 2010 11:50 AM
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Remember John Kerry, the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2004 ? Well, couple of weeks ago he introduced a bill in the US Congress on a special visa for foreign start-up entrepreneurs. This bill is the result of extensive lobbying efforts by prominent Silicon Valley folks who figured that easing the...
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, March 9, 2010 11:30 AM
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Invis recently renewed their annual contract with HomeZilla to provide them with real estate related geo-data. Invis, Canada's largest mortgage broker, is a leader in using technology to help their brokers. The geo-data is used to help produce an Invis Feature Sheet that outlines all the information a home buyer...
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by Rob Lewis
on Tue, March 9, 2010 10:05 AM
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Today is the official launch date of C100 in Silicon Valley and they're hosting a reception and dinner in San Francisco to celebrate. C100 is a non-profit, member-driven organization dedicated to supporting Canadian technology entrepreneurship and investment.
C100 is comprised of a select group of Canadians based primarily in Silicon Valley,...
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on Tue, March 9, 2010 8:52 AM
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If you haven't used or even heard of the mobile location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla then you are in the minority. Such services, in case you don't know yet, are used to tell the world where you’re visiting, And now a company has created a service that can...
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