TBridge @ Tech Venture Challenge
The 2009 Tech Venture Challenge will be wrapping up, with the finalists presenting their final pitches tonight at Ben Franklin Place, Ottawa. TVC is Ottawa’s most prestigious business plan competition and is a member of MIT’s Global Network of University Business Plan Competitions.
35 business proposals were submitted this 2009 season, and the 3 finalists [...]
TalentBridge – How Do We Snag the Talent?
It’s out there. We know it exists, we know it’s hungry, and we can feel it lurking. Ottawa is full of supremely talented individuals and yet a program deriving it’s namesake from that very thing, “TalentBridge”, is perpetually hungry. A starving tiger wandering amongst a veritable feast of young, undeveloped prey, for some reason unable [...]
Social Media – a necessary element of success.
I took part in a Social Media Breakfast for the first time today, and quite enjoyed the talk given by Mark Kuznicki. He discussed the use of social media tools such as twitter, and blogging as it can be applied to citizen participation by communities and governments, in the context of unconferences.
If you don’t know [...]
Willing and able in Entrepreneurship
I think we all have, at one point or another, heard the spill on being an entrepreneur: you should be able to motivate your team, manage time lines, set goal, and so on. However after reading Stephen Daze’s post, I started realizing how those skills are manifestations of other traits like self confidence and self [...]
Desire, willingness AND ability
I recently found myself indicating my desire to do something – something that I hadn’t yet done but had been asked to.. a couple of times. It got me thinking about how desire alone isn’t enough for something to be done – of course that is obvious for most but not always a concept that [...]