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M-Theory: Would not buy again
14 January 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
In order to attract potential buyers, good sellers need to clearly answer the question "What's in it for me? for their audience. The same logic can be applied to tech companies trying to attract talent. Read more
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M-Theory: Curiouser and curiouser: team building lessons from Rob Drimmie
19 December 2013 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Rob Drimmie, Development Manager at Apps Factory shares how he builds teams with co-op students who are just gaining work experience for the first time. Read more
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Attack of the green monster: DATA.BASE partner takes on algae threat
05 December 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
A local company now partnered with Communitech’s DATA.BASE program has joined the fight against algae blooms that sap waterways of oxygen and threaten other forms of aquatic life.The Centre for Community… Read more
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M-Theory: I got a fever...for some meaningful technology
22 November 2013 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion, Startups
With a lot going on in the world between exalted altruism and rank banality, Melanie still believes that the people who built the apps changed the world Read more
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M-Theory: Startup lessons from Girl Geek Carol Leaman
05 November 2013 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion, Startups
Carol Leaman joined us to talk about her startup, Axonify, its background and the neuroscience upon which the software is based. This column will look at some of the broader startup lessons learned. You’ll… Read more
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Participation: Essential fuel for new-age cities
15 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Smart cities need people like Anna Beard. She blogged a civil, measured critique of Day 1, noting that for all that was said about their importance, millennials (the under-34 cohort) seemed under-represented… Read more
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Weather challenges could be opportunities for smart cities
10 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Flood-control and power-grid investments are expensive, but Hoornweg, who is also Ontario’s chief safety and risk officer, said Toronto and its neighbours in the Greater Golden Horseshoe already have measures… Read more
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CityAge conference explores the big ideas that make city living attractive
09 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Municipal governments planning attractive urban centres would do well to satisfy Generation Y and they should also build urban features appreciated by women, who will make up two-thirds of the white-collar… Read more
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CityAge conference Oct. 9-10 looks at challenges, opportunities of urbanization
03 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
We are trying to integrate planning and transportation infrastructure. Economic development is intimately related to planning issues and infrastructure issues. The real premise underlying CityAge is that… Read more
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Where there’s light: P & P Optica broadens uses of spectrometry
24 September 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
P&P Optica is in the spectrometry business, developing better devices for reading the light signatures that compounds and elements give off. The heart of P&P’s success lies inside those discs: A thin layer… Read more