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All hands on deck: Laurier researcher and DATA.BASE take a close look at port traffic
13 December 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
Michael Haughton is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University who has recently teamed up with Communitech's DATA.BASE program to track the data behind ship movements and make harbours more efficient. Read more
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View from the 'Loo: BufferBox one year after the Google acquisition
12 December 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
Mike McCauley co-founded BufferBox, a student-led startup that was acquired by Google. He discusses the acquisition and the future of BufferBox. Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Bring on the Waterloo Region-Toronto supercluster
05 December 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
Imagine the potential if we could build stronger links between our ecosystem and greater Toronto’s formidable innovation economy and Waterloo, strengthening both communities and those in between; an innovation… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: A hub for grownups and startups alike
28 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Small to Mid Size, View from the ‘Loo
Communitech Hub has about 120 startups residents, is the centre of a network. There is some large companies, like Intuit, a $25-billion player in financial software headquartered in California, and non-tech… Read more
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Sounds like a plan: New audio courses focus on modern tech tools
25 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured
Egan and Gray are setting out to start an innovative education program at the soon-to-launch Kitchener Studio Project (KSP), teaching the hands-on courses using readily available software popular on today’s… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: HackerNest builds tech communities, one beer at a time
21 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
HackerNest, the volunteer-run, non-profit organization, has meetups that enable the spontaneous relationship-building that underpins great startup communities. Read more
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Manufactured reality; great PR: Dragons' Den debrief with PumpUp
15 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, Startups
Phil Jacobson, the young co-founder of PumpUp, developers of a popular mobile workout app, appeared to be caught flat-footed during a recent episode of CBC’s Dragons’ Den. I sat down with Jacobson this… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: The good word on government funding
14 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
Ontario’s $15-million pledge to fund Communitech over the next three years, and the federal government’s five-year, $8.75-million contribution to the Canadian Digital Media Network, Communitech’s national… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: VeloCity Foundry to be a forge for hardware startups
07 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
The VeloCity Garage tech incubator is not exactly the place for people to be bending metal and drilling holes. That much became clear in 2012, when a student-led startup called BufferBox moved into the… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: On venture partners who invest in people
31 October 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
Social Venture Partners, a global network of philanthropists, look for the same things any venture capitalist would: a good team, solid fundamentals and the potential to change the world, the difference… Read more