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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
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The biggest hack at Hack the North
| By Phil Froklage in: Event recaps, Events, Featured, News
Hack the North draws 1,000 participants from all over the world to the University of Waterloo for Canada's biggest hackathon. Read more