My Experience with TalentBridge
Since early January, I have had the pleasure of working with TalentBridge, one of Ottawa’s finest talent development programs for university students and recent graduates. As time has gone on, I believe that I have developed as an entrepreneur, as a human being, and as a citizen. So, I thought it would be useful for [...]
Read moreOttawa Innovation Challenge is Back
The Ottawa Innovation Challenge is back, bigger and better, and I for one can’t wait. Post-secondary students and new grads will have the opportunity to showcase their problem solving and entrepreneurial skills to local technology executives and entrepreneurs. 48 hours of intense competition…what better way to spend a weekend?
Read more10 Weeks In
So it’s officially been 10 weeks since I started my placement in TalentBridge, and a few months since I originally found out about the program. Considering that my first contact with TalentBridge came through a job posting at the Carleton University co-op website, I find it surprising that my chance to be immersed in entrepreneurship [...]
Read moreOIC 2009 Social
After a weekend long work marathon, four teams of talented entrepreneurs came up with four solution for two startups in the Ottawa area, ThinkSM and Benbria. Now with the competition over, what better way to acknowledge the great efforts made by everyone to make OIC 2009 a success than with a social!
Read moreOIC: Talent-Searching’s New Secret Sauce
Fantastic. Fantastically Powerful? Fantastically Powerfully Inspirational? Perhaps we’ll just toss out a new word here – Fantastirational.
Read moreOIC 2009 (A Grand Success) is officially closed
It is 11:24 p.m. on the night of 23rd of August, 2009, and I just got home after successfully closing OIC 2009 – a new micro initiative that we launched out of TalentBridge. Details of Ottawa Innovation Challenge (OIC), that I co-developed and co-managed with Steve Robins and William Armstrong with support from Sonia Riahi [...]
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