Showing all articles in the View from the ‘Loo category
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View from the 'Loo: It's that time of year again
17 October 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, View from the ‘Loo
The Waterloo Region tech community has much to celebrate since we launched Techtoberfest a year ago. Since it’s a startup festival, it’s as much about the work as it is the partying, as the list of keynotes… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Kevin Newman starts up, again
19 September 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Startups, View from the ‘Loo
As one of Canada’s most familiar and accomplished network news anchors, Kevin Newman has been around – and been moving around – long enough to see trends come and go, programs launch and die, experiments… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Low-tech time travelling on a working afternoon
13 June 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: View from the ‘Loo
Cloud storage and flash drives can hold tons of stuff, but they’ll never have the musty attraction of an old scrapbook. Finding an old scrapbook under the stairs, we take a dive into the past with several… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: City-building conference set for Oct. 9-10
30 May 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
The Waterloo Region is a tech hub and while you can start a tech business from anywhere, it helps to be around others that have done it. The area has had massive growth in the tech industry over the past… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Canada's new confidence
16 May 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
It’s been an interesting week in Toronto, centre of the country’s media universe, where the annual Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) hosted its annual Canada 3.0 event. Speaker after speaker exuded… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: A big year for BigRoad, Thalmic Labs
09 May 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
BigRoad, based in Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre, is a software-as-a-service business aimed at a tough-to-crack, old-school and decidedly unsexy industry. Kitchener-based Thalmic’s futuristic MYO is a hardware… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: It's about the soil, not the building
02 May 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
Cora Developments next big project to break ground in Waterloo’s David Johnston Research + Technology Park: the International Business Centre, a 110,000-square-foot facility for startups and companies… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Networks matter more than hierarchies
18 April 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Startups, View from the ‘Loo
In a world that seems ever more awake to the power of networks, why are we still hypnotized by hierarchies? Seth Godin, who spoke at Communitech Tech Leadership Conference last month, talks about networks… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: The world outside our door
11 April 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
Cohort 2 of Communitech’s HYPERDRIVE accelerator are in New York this week, plus another from Cohort 1, making contacts, learning from mentors, pitching investors, and seeing how things get done in the… Read more