Today in hires: Wealthsimple, Breathe Life, FrontRunner
In the last week, three Canadian startups have added new members to their teams. Here’s a breakdown of who is joining, and what they…
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Rob Maurin wants to replicate Wave’s success at Plooto
Rob Maurin knows a thing or two about crafting an identity for an early-stage FinTech startup. In 2009, when financial services startup Wave was…
Canadian Growth Hackers: Shopify’s Amy Martin on Marchitecture and building growth teams
In this series, brought to you by the Toronto-based native advertising technology company StackAdapt, you’ll join Vitaly Pecherskiy as he meets with top minds…
Canadian Growth Hackers: Neo’s Kyle Sergeant on the power of strong choices
In this series, brought to you by the Toronto-based native advertising technology company StackAdapt, you’ll join Vitaly Pecherskiy as he meets with top minds…
Canadian Growth Hackers: Exact Media’s Elena Armstrong on how retailers break through the noise
In this series, brought to you by Toronto-based native advertising tech company StackAdapt, Vitaly Pecherskiy meets with the top minds in the marketing and…
Canadian Growth Hackers: GrowthGenius shares B2B sales and marketing wisdom
In this series, brought to you by the Toronto-based native advertising technology company StackAdapt, you’ll join Vitaly Pecherskiy as he meets with top minds…
Rory Capern tells tech companies to “Tear Down This Wall” at #MarketingTO
TechTO held its first MarketingTO event earlier this month to encourage startups to go beyond traditional boundaries and focus on collaboration as a way…
Hack To Start EP.171: Livefyre founder Jordan Kretchmer
Jordan Kretchmer is the Founder & CEO of Livefyre, which was acquired by Adobe in 2016, where he is now a Senior Director continuing…
Sprint.ly’s April Dunford gives some context to the sticky struggle of pitching at #TechTO
For entrepreneurs looking for ways to pitch a product with the right context, April Dunford of Sprint.ly has some words, and a few jokes,…
Hack To Start Ep.134: Mike Schmidt, co-founder of Dovetale
Mike Schmidt is the co-founder of Dovetale. Schmidt grew up outside Toronto and later attended Queen’s University, studying chemical engineering. While at Queen’s, he…
Abacus is a VC-backed Facebook marketing agency built to arm startups with data
A new digital marketing agency has sprung up in Toronto, led by some familiar names. Called Abacus, the company was founded by Peter Reitano,…
Hack To Start Ep. 124: Hailley Griffis, communications specialist at Buffer
Hailley Griffis is a communications specialist at Buffer. Griffis started building her personal brand as a communication strategist while in school. She then launched…
How new SaaS companies should be using content marketing
CMI’s 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Survey found that 88% of B2B companies are using content marketing. Why? Because it works. Content improves…