Showing all articles in the startups category
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Feld thoughts, Wise words: Startup Opportunities tackles tough questions
25 March 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Event recaps, Featured, News, Startups
Brad Feld talks about his journey and what led him to co-write Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job, with Canadian Sean Wise. The book is aimed squarely at those still considering whether… Read more
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Giving back and getting involved: How one university student spends her free time
18 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, News, Startups, Tech About Town
Communitech News follows busy student, Alexa Roeper, on how she spends her free time getting involved. Read more
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Communitech Rev names 10 companies to first cohort
16 March 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups
Communitech's new program, Rev, has announced their first cohort. Read more
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP Lunch and Learn
13 March 2015 | By Angela Larraguibel in: Announcements, Startups
This technical session provides the audience with an understanding of the fundamental concepts of which CRM and NAV is built, and how those concepts help organizations innovate, integrate, collaborate… Read more
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Shinydocs serves up an exciting solution to a boring problem
12 March 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Enterprise, Opinion, Startups, View from the ‘Loo
Shinydrive, overcomes a big, boring and expensive problem: the reluctance of office workers to store and share documents on company systems, and their risky reliance on local desktops and cloud solutions… Read more
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Kitematic joins Docker and heads to Silicon Valley
12 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
Kitematic (formerly local startup Kite) announced Thursday that it has been acquired by Docker. Kitematic automates the typically manual effort of deploying and managing Docker environments, an open platform… Read more
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DraftingSPACE hones vision at Blackbox
11 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
The two-woman team at DraftingSPACE, a company specializing in renovation design software out of the University of Waterloo Velocity Garage, has taken part in the Blackbox Connect program. They spent two… Read more
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Azure Websites Lunch and Learn - More Than Hosting
11 March 2015 | By Angela Larraguibel in: Announcements, Startups
Azure Websites Lunch and Learn to teach people that their platform is a lot more than just hosting. They have many different ways to deploy, manage & scale .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python and Java websites… Read more
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Solve a problem, find a business: the Bridgit story so far
06 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Startups
Bridgit is the number one construction workforce intelligence solution. Lauren Hasegawa talks about her path to creating her business and how she has innovated the construction workflow and management… Read more
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Google ignites fresh batch of startups
06 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
On Friday, Google’s Waterloo Region office, above the Communitech Hub, hosted the incoming and outgoing cohorts of the Google for Entrepreneurs program. The four new companies, Coqui, FunnelCake, PickUpHub.net… Read more