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Kenneth M. Kambara blogs about the interesting lessons he learned from Robert Deluce, CEO of Porter Airlines, speaker at CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 event taken on February 17, 2010.

Sramana Mitra has put together a series on bootstrapping by surveying the blogosphere and collating the best pieces out there. Read her summaries and follow the links to the stories and articles for more detail. It includes a link to the MaRS Blog post, "Bootstrapping or "How to be a cheap b@st@rd"" by me, Cathy Bogaart.

Blog mentioning the Mobile Monday's event at the MaRS Centre, on March 1, about the venture pitch. WirelessNorth.ca will help to moderate an all-star panel of mobile investors as they judge pitches from Canadian mobile start-ups.

Brett Virmalo of Foward Thinking writes a great must-read about what the "new marketing" really is: your customers and your employees and really great products. Stop marketing. Start being genuinely good. It's the "new" secret sauce.

Elbert van Donersgoed blogs about the Cultural Mapping and Cultural Planning: Making the Connection event will happen on March 2 & 3, 2010. This event will include presentations on Creative City Network of Canada's cultural planning and mapping toolkits, panel discussions from those in the field and a facilitated discussion on what's next will give you the knowledge and connections to move the cultural planning agenda forward in your community.

Linda Ko blogs about The Business of Aging Summit which was jointly organized by Toronto's innovation incubator, the MaRS Centre, and the Ontario government. This event plans to showcase the work of 14 up-and-coming Ontario companies now developing software, diagnostic tools and other technologies aimed specifically at the aging population. Dec 1, 2009

A blog about the business of giving - a good read for non-profits and other social-good institutions who would like to rely at least partially on philanthropy.

T. the City Blog features articles about -- surprise, surprise -- the city of Toronto. Captures the innovations, the news, the culture, the people.

Entrepreneurs: Want to know whom to follow on Twitter? Check out this list of Entrepreneurship Lists on Twitter. It also shows a list of the Top Entrepreneur Curators (the folks who CREATED the lists of entrepreneurs). Includes Social Entrepreneurs, blogs for entrepreneurs, start-ups and CEO lists.

The Relentless Foundation is starting up an entrepreneur's website and are looking for donations to support it. NetSquared writes about the ask.

Kevin Young, sent by the Cabinet Office, blogs about his experience about taking photos at the MaRS Centre during Advertising Week 2010.

Elisa Birnbaum blogs about Manon Barbeau's dream: giving young people from First Nations communities an opportunity to express themselves using video and music, promoting a sense of healing, empowerment, and community engagement.As Barbeau's story attests, when it comes to Canada's Aboriginal people, social enterprises can be a strong force of change.former Prime Minister, the Rt. Honourable Paul Martin spoke at an Event that was co-sponsored by SiG and MaRS and announced the launch of a $50 million fund to promote Aboriginal business and entrepreneurship.

Blog review of the principal difference between the Expo and Mesh and why the Mesh experience is more advantageous than the more established US counterpart.

Mark Cullen, Canada AM gardening expert, blogs about the new products and concepts that appeal to Canadian gardners. Light From A Stone, a MaRS Client is featured.

Vincent Cheung and Wenfei Yu, MaRS clients and University of Toronto students, took home $25,000 for their business Shape Collage, which placed first in the 12th annual IBK Capital-Ivey Business Plan Competition on March 26 & 27 at Ivey Business School.

Chim Kan blogs about his reflection about being an MBA graduate and mentions about the MaRS CIBC Entrepreneurship Upstart Competition 10K which will feature entrepreneurs showing their latest ideas.

The Village Gamer mentions MaRS' funding sources database in a blog that shows how Canada is Creative Central. It's listed along with a number of other awards for those in the digital media space.