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by Stephen King
on Tue, January 3, 2012 9:14 AM
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A shout out to John Masters who has just recently left his role as President and CEO of Calgary Technologies Inc. (CTI) and President of Innovate Calgary as of December 31, 2011. Read the press release here.
John has been at the organization for 17 years, and has recently been sheparding...
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on Sat, December 3, 2011 4:02 PM
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Empire Avenue out of Edmonton is interesting. Using the stock market as a metaphor, members of the community can buy shares in you using a virtual currency at your going stock price. Using a social aggregator algorithm, Empire Avenue evaluates and quantifies what is now commonly referred to as "social...
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on Fri, December 2, 2011 2:09 PM
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Wicked awesome Startup Calgary Launch party last night. About 350 people filled the Roderick Mah Centre at Mount Royal. Great networking and buzz; it's a continued validation that our tech scene is both exploding in both quantity and quality.
Festivities got under way around 5:00. Nine companies presented to a select...
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on Wed, November 30, 2011 12:38 PM
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Tomorrow night's Launch party is a highly anticipated event ready to fill the Roderick Mah Centre for Continuous Learning at Mount Royal University.
The hosts, Startup Calgary, have contributed to a lot of successes this year, including the Founders Forum, AcceleratorYYC, Powerpoint Karaoke and AccelerateAB last summer.
An anticipated 350 people will...
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on Wed, November 23, 2011 11:49 AM
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Calgary-based Trilogy Software announced today that it has raised $3.3M in private equity with funds from founders and local and North American private investors. Read the full press release.
This is CEO Cameron Peters 3rd company. He co-created Cantax Software in the 1980’s (now part of CCH), and founded GreenPoint Software...
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by Stephen King
on Fri, November 18, 2011 1:50 PM
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If you're hankering for some great Canadian content, look no further than Calgary's Kerfmusic. Kerfmusic has become THE source of Canadian alt-country, roots-rock alternative and jazz / folk around the world.
Kerfmusic has over 450 artists registered on the digital distribution and eCommerce platform, and more than 700 different CD's for...
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by Stephen King
on Thu, November 17, 2011 8:29 AM
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Notice that I removed the word “Shall” from the title of this blog post
After I caught the news about the Facebook hack, I meandered around the internet, thought about some recent events and am connecting loose dots for those that haven’t heard about the goings on. Hell, maybe I'm way...
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on Wed, November 9, 2011 8:00 AM
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I spent Tuesday at The Art of Leadership conference at the Jack Singer Hall in Calgary. An excellent day with great speakers and good networking. Kudos to TechVibes for being a sponsor.
I've always been a strong proponent of personal development … as I say, "I'm never as good as the...
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on Wed, September 21, 2011 2:44 PM
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The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is the Canadian host of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), an international movement designed to inspire millions of young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity through entrepreneurs. Through events and activities the week of November 14th until 20th, people in countries across the world will...
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by Stephen King
on Thu, August 25, 2011 1:14 PM
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The next time you think to yourself "What gift / card do I buy for that person?" why don't you try "Ending Poverty"?
That's exactly the thinking that UEnd.org put into the relaunch of it's platform, announced at it's inaugral event last night in Calgary. Originally founded in 2006, and with...
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