Innovation
Twitter + Linkedin = ? for Business
In one word: WOW!
Wow for
· The abundance of helpful, insightful information
· The effortless and casual explanations
· The young, approachable expert speakers
· The sold-out crowd
· The number of people in Ottawa who are so interested
· The number of people in Ottawa who are already so involved in Twitter and LinkedIn
· The endless possibilities!
I just came [...]
In my ‘Business Cake’ Recipe, How Much Culture is Enough?
Canada is one of the most eclectic and diverse countries in the world, it is also one flourishing with cutting edge businesses. So when establishing a new business how much should one’s culture or those of potential customers influence it?
I am a young Sri Lankan, Tamil female born and raised outside of my native country [...]
Entrepreneur’s Edge (e2) Lite Session
Recently I had the privilege to attend an entrepreneur’s edge Lite session – a 3-hour ‘information overload’ concerning anything and everything about building a business. The demographic of attendees was interesting to see as well: an assortment of ages, ethnicities and experience. Despite the differences it was encouraging to sit in a room full of [...]
Malcolm Gladwell @ the NAC June 11th 2009
As you might now, TBridge started a book club and the first book we read was Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. A week after our review, Stephen Daze comes in during our weekly meeting announcing that Malcolm Gladwell will be at the NAC June 11th and since we had all just read [...]
e2 Lite
Through TalentBridge I was introduced to Entrepreneur’s Edge (e2) – a 5 day boot camp offered by OCRI offering intensive interactive classes transferring knowledge form seasoned entrepreneurs and experts to new entrepreneurs.
I was able to attend an “e2 Lite” session last week (May 26, 2009), the condensed version of the main e2 program, hosted by [...]
Infonium: Improving Patient Access and Generating Systemic Accountability
I’m working for Ottawa based Infonium Inc. a native HIT company generating software to move the healthcare industry into the new millenium. Working directly with President and CEO, Jay Lawrence, I’m contributing to busniess development and aiding in some projecet management as Infonium engages in it’s largest internal growth period to date.
Infonim offers two product [...]
Alan Greenspan – The Age of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan’s book The Age of Turbulence – Adventures in a New World may be a bestseller as much for its literary merit as for the man’s perceived role in the global credit crisis. This fact did not escape Greenspan, who went on to add another chapter for the revised edition of the book after [...]
Gordon Cameron – TalentBridge 2009
Gordon Cameron
I’m a recent addition to the TalentBridge team, stumbling into the program through my involvement with a recent E1o1 seminar provided by OCRI. A native of Kingston, Ontario, most of my youth was spent in Sunnyvale, California at the heart of Silicon Valley.
Academic and Professional Experience
I’m currently in my 4th year of Aerospace Engineering [...]
Power of strong sense of community!
Today was an important day in my life. I finally face my biggest fear of kayaking which was Mini Bus, on the Ottawa River.
On the way up to the Ottawa River I was enjoying tidbits with my buddy Simon DeNure and when we hit Cobden, Ontario I got super nervous… It finally hit me in [...]
TalentBridge – Developing Leaders
Just a little introduction, my name is Omar Shammas, I am a computer systems engineering student about to enter my fourth year at Carleton University. I have always had an interest and a passion to start my own business but I’ve never known where to start. Finally, after searching for a long time, a friend [...]