Startup Canada invites #EveryEntrepreneur to join nationwide tour
On October 14, Startup Canada is launching its #EveryEntrepreneur Tour, where entrepreneurs can find mentors, support, and…
Events
Startup Slam wants to help build a real tech community in Victoria
How do you build up a tech community on Vancouver island? One coder at a time, apparently. Victoria’s startup community…
#VanStartupCity: tech entrepreneurship tips from the leaders
“If you want to be successful, follow your contribution, not your passion.” This and other bits of wisdom resulted…
Startup Canada and Intuit team up to give entrepreneurs a crash course in financial literacy
From September 28 until October 4, Startup Canada and Intuit are teaming up with entrepreneur community leaders across Canada…
#VanIMPACT: investing for profit, people, and the planet
Driven by purpose as well as profit? You might have joined hundreds of earnest entrepreneurs, non-profit folks and investors…
Remember these last-minute hackathon tips before #MastersofCode
MasterCard’s Masters of Code hackathon starts tomorrow in beautiful Montreal. Last week, we hosted a Twitter chat with our…
Collaboration trumps competition at #HackTheNorth
Bring together 1,000 student hackers from 200 schools and 15 countries, and connect them with Y Combinator, mentors from companies…
CIX Cleantech reveals 10 most innovative cleantech companies
Today, CIX Cleantech announced the 10 most disruptive Canadian clean technology companies chosen to present at the CIX Cleantech:…
Why Indiegogo’s Steve Tam says work-life balance doesn’t exist
In case you missed it, #Firesideconf brought together 80 people from the tech community for speeches from fellow entrepreneurs,…
Edvisor, Ziva Dynamics & Change Heroes top BCIC-New Ventures competition
New Ventures BC and the BC Innovation Council (BCIC) awarded over $300,000 to tech startups at their 15th annual awards ceremony,…
Communitech Rev awards $50,000 to protein testing solution Nicoya
Waterloo-based Nicoya Lifesciences wants to change the way scientists run protein tests, and on Friday night, the company had…
#VanIMPACT15: Building the purpose-driven enterprise
Van IMPACT 2015 aims to attract hundreds of socially-minded enterprises looking to combine purpose and profit this Wednesday.…
Beyond the Code conference brings diverse perspective to tech
The tech sector has a rep for being a boys’ club, and perhaps rightly so — according to StatsCan, in 2011, 39 per cent…
See Shopify’s Tobi Lutke at AccelerateOTT this Thursday
For AccelerateOTT’s third year, organizers C100 and Invest Ottawa will be bringing in Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke for a fireside…
IoT613 conference tackles everything Internet of Things this week
September 24 and 25, tech enthusiasts looking for the future in Internet of Things will congregate at IoT613 in Ottawa, a conference…