• Focusing on finding financial success in film from Ottawa

  January 30, 2012 - 15 h 18

  I recently interviewed screenwriter Sharon Buckingham, best known as the writer/producer and creative force behind Sticks & Stones, a CTV made-for-TV movie.

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• An opportunistic acquisitions strategy

  January 18, 2012 - 8 h 34

  One would expect a company with 31,000 employees and revenues of $4.32 billion - making it the seventh-largest systems integrator in the world - to have a big attitude.

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• RocketOwl wises up to products game

  December 19, 2011 - 15 h 25

  While it's often hard to tell whether a tech company is a hardware or software business, or a services or products studio, there's no doubt about RocketOwl.

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  Select Start Studios grows exponentially by helping clients of clients

  November 17, 2011 - 8 h 50

  I recently interviewed the tall, charismatic 30-year old Select Start Studios CEO Tariq Zaid at the company's cool headquarters in an old stone building fronting Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa.

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• Engineering grads pair beauty and smarts

  October 27, 2011 - 14 h 25

  What can a pair of male University of Waterloo engineering grads possibly know about the rapidly growing market for beauty products, where 98 per cent of customers are female?

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• BTI rides wave of global networking demand

  September 26, 2011 - 8 h 55

  BTI Systems may be the fastest-growing tech company flying under the radar of some in Ottawa.

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• ‘Fenix’-like rise into open source profits

  September 15, 2011 - 8 h 39

  Jennifer MacKinnon started Fenix Solutions in 2001 after the Montreal-based tech company she was working for decided to pull out of the Ottawa market. She asked herself: "Why not do it on my own?" So she did.

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• Of bootstrapping, business divorce and outsourcing

  May 24, 2011 - 13 h 15

  In 1996, Paul Vallée left Minneapolis and a lucrative contract consulting position billable at up to $175 an hour to come to Ottawa and live the impoverished life of an entrepreneur.

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• Selling socks and underwear subscriptions

  April 25, 2011 - 8 h 45

  Anyone who starts a company with the following tagline is bound to be different: "We give men (and the people who love them) more time to build empires, climb mountains (and) slay dragons to achieve the goals they aspire to."

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• Connecting with clients before foraging for funds

  February 15, 2011 - 14 h 29

  I built my own Shopify store on the company’s platform in less than 10 minutes.

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• March 16, 2010 Ottawa's tractor-beam effect
• February 24, 2010 Don't trade in your old suit - yet
• November 13, 2009 A question of urban vs. suburban
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