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UW pair find viral success with Rob Ford ‘Crackathon’ game
09 April 2014 | By tr in: Featured, Startups
During last weekend’s annual spring hackathon at HackNY, Nick Mostowich and Chris Ngan created a fun game in 16 hours, featuring Toronto mayor Rob Ford Read more
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Third Startup Weekend creates new initiatives and inspires passion in community
07 April 2014 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Startups
Erin Atchison won first place at the Startup Weekend Waterloo Region, Community Edition pitch competition with her idea for Barn Raiser, a website that would connect local businesses, community builders,… Read more
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Industry Minister unveils bold plan to boost Canada's digital economy
04 April 2014 | By Communitech in: Featured
On Friday Industry Minister James More unveiled Digital Canada 150 which encompasses 39 new initiatives that build on the government's successful measures for a more connected Canada. Read more
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Spirit of artful collaboration shines on Hyphen-U of G partnership
04 April 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
A new partnership between Christie Digtal's Hyphen division and the University of Guelph is helping to create art installations like Christian Giroux's installation called Nyctophilia in the Mt. Dennis… Read more
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Communitech HYPERDRIVE – one cohort at a time
02 April 2014 | By Communitech in: Featured, Startups
Companies that have completed the HYPERDRIVE program have provided valuable feedback. Companies have advised to not over-program, and to make more opportunities to meet with investors and mentors. Read more
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Cream.HR finds CMO with help from Embedded Executive Funding program
31 March 2014 | By Samantha Clark in: Featured, Startups
For a capital efficient startup like Cream.HR, hiring an executive through the Embedded Executive Funding program, can be the best way. The executives are funded through the Business Acceleration Program… Read more
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Links We Love 03.28.14
28 March 2014 | By Samantha Clark in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
Another edition of the Communitech Grow Factor Links We Love blog! This week we’ve got your medium-to-large sized business covered with news and tips that we think you should know. Read more
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Judges inspired by ASCEnt social enterprise competition
25 March 2014 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Startups
Winning first place in Waterloo Region’s newest pitch competition for social enterprises, $5,000 in cash and a year of mentorship by ASCEnt, was Edusight, an online tool for elementary and high school… Read more
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Velocity startup PiinPoint announces Y Combinator backing
24 March 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
PiinPoint received funding from Y Combinator as the seventh Waterloo Region startup to complete the prestigious California-based accelerator program. Their software, which has been likened to “Google Analytics… Read more
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M-Theory: Who needs humanity? There's an app for that . . .
20 March 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Communicating so much via WhatsApp and Instagram has stripped us of our basic humanity, made us slaves to Poe’s Law. Our Paleolithic brains can’t evolve fast enough to properly understand this tech-saturated… Read more