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The Nimble Hippo: On culture and behaviour
24 October 2016 | By Craig Haney in: Enterprise, Featured, Opinion, The Nimble Hippo
The Nimble Hippo explores culture and how an innovative culture does not need to be widespread to be effective. Read more
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Diversity a key theme at Techtoberfest 2016
13 October 2016 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups
Techtoberfest is Communitech's yearly startup festival at the Tannery Event Centre. This year, speakers stressed the importance of diversity in the ever-more-global tech industry. Read more
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The Nimble Hippo: Building the business case
11 October 2016 | By Craig Haney in: Enterprise, Featured, Opinion, The Nimble Hippo
Innovators need the discipline to follow through with the process in order to create the data required to build the business case. By showing product evolution, the business case tells a compelling story… Read more
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Competence, collaboration and culture: Why Shopify acquired Boltmade
06 October 2016 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Enterprise, Opinion, Startups, View from the ‘Loo
Cultural and innovative similarities drove Shopify to acquire Boltmade, a highly regarded product design consultancy that Shopify Plus had hired to build a dashboard for clients of its enterprise e-commerce… Read more
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Nimble Hippo Radio: Amanda Lang
04 October 2016 | By Craig Haney in: Featured, Multimedia, Opinion, Podcast, The Nimble Hippo
Amanda Lang, host of Bloomberg North discusses the fear that large companies have of rapid disruption. Read more
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Shopify acquires Boltmade to speed development in Waterloo
03 October 2016 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Ecosystem, Featured, News, Startups
Boltmade, a product design and development firm has been acquired by Shopify and will be incorporated into the Shopify Plus team in Waterloo. Read more
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Dozr raises $2.5M from FairVentures as U.S. market beckons
29 September 2016 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups
Dozr, A Waterloo-based tech company with a platform for heavy-equipment rentals, has raised CAD$2.5 million in equity funding from FairVentures Inc. Read more
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CEO Q+A: New platform set to spark global growth for Industry Corporation
22 September 2016 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Opinion, Startups, View from the 'Loo
Andrew Matlock and Tim Nosal, co-founders of Industry Corporation discuss their product Spark – a software platform to centrally manage content for virtually any type of display. Read more
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Swinging for the fences: Stephen Lake on Thalmic Labs' Series B round
20 September 2016 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups
Stephen Lake, CEO of Thalmic labs in Waterloo Region, discusses their new product and their growth in the region. Read more
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Scaling the summit: The Nimble Hippo at #WINS16
19 September 2016 | By Craig Haney in: Featured, Opinion, The Nimble Hippo
The Waterloo Innovation Summit is hosted by Communitech and the University of Waterloo and brought in 300 guests from around the world. The 43 speakers focused on the innovation imperative in an age of… Read more