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TalentBridge Reflections
This past summer I had the opportunity to participate in the TalentBridge program and it was truly a great experience. TalentBridge makes it possible for students to work on the business side of some of Ottawa’s hottest, up and coming startups, which I believe is the ideal opportunity to learn.
Read moreWhy Students Don’t Start
I bought some web hosting this week, hosted my blog, threw up the UWO Debate website and I’ll put up some other projects that I’m working on over the course of the year. Hosting is dirt cheap, I probably spend more in one week socializing with friends than I did for two years of web [...]
Read moreSoftware Standards – Is There a Point?
When GMail got rid of the pesky “sent on behalf of” and allowed me to send mail using the UWO SMTP server, I finally ditched Microsoft Outlook (which I had been using for 4+ years) and went to the cloud. Over the last week, I have loved having access to my e-mail, no matter which [...]
Read moreMicrosoft – Yahoo Merger?
Its sounding more and more likely that some form of search licensing deal will be announced tomorrow between Microsoft and Yahoo. I remember reading a quote last week from someone, and I can’t remember who, saying that the time you can stop worrying about your competitors is when they start merging. It means that they’ve [...]
Read moreDavid Crow: Ottawa Social Media Breakfast
At today’s Ottawa social media breakfast, David Crow spoke about building communities around your products, and how those communities have changed over the years. He charted the change over the last 60 years from geographic communities, where a person is only a member of one community and mass broadcast marketing was effective, to today where [...]
Read moreRelationship Building
To me, one of the most important things that TalentBridge has given me is the opportunity to meet so many other entrepreneurial students. For university students, its hard to make meaningful connections with people you can start ventures with. I was reading Paul Graham’s blog (one of the founders of Y-Combinator) about fundamentals for start-up [...]
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