Group items tagged

Top 150 blogs for entrepreneurs - Note MaRS made the list!

MaRS Blogs ranked 100 in the Top 150 Blogs for Entrepreneurs. The top 150 blogs contain relevant information for entrepreneurs in general, with a bias for high tech and social entrepreneurship and a special interest on the funding side.

MaRS Blogs ranked 100 in the Top 150 Blogs for Entrepreneurs. The top 150 blogs contain relevant information for entrepreneurs in general, with a bias for high tech and social entrepreneurship and a special interest on the funding side.

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 Daily Resource for Entrepreneurs' provides free access to INC. Magazine ['Handbook of the American Entrepreneur'] and Inc.TV. It also provides free access to many entrepreneur-centric Resource Centres, Blogs, Technologies, and Events. It is highly current and relevant Though a wonderful resource for all entrepreneurs, Inc.com is also very good for newbies. Its' "Start-Up" section provides links to columns, how-to guides, articles, and other recommended resources. There is even an interactive Ask the Expert section to the site.

Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District is on the judging panel for for the Entrepreneur of the Year. The finalists in this year's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year has been announced. The Ontario winners will be announced October 10, 2012.

Young entrepreneurs and wanna-be young entrepreneurs need to watch this. From Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup, the event is "Totally Wired Youth Entrepreneurs." Moderated by Guy Kawasaki, the panelists are really young and really smart/successful. Inspirational. Making me wish I'd worked on my cool idea when I was 16...

"Johann Olav Koss (Right To Play International), Michael Fergusson (Ayogo Games Inc.) and Sandrine Faust (Allô prof) are this year's recipients of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year Special Citation award for social entrepreneurship." Allyson Hewitt, Director of Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation Generation at MaRS is on the Entrepreneur of the Year's judging panel.

"Ernst & Young has selected Michael Back, president and CEO, Collective Point of Sale Solutions Ltd., as an Ontario finalist in its prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 Awards." Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District is on the judging panel for the Entrepreneur of the Year.

Social entrepreneurs carving out new and innovative ways of simultaneously yielding in financial, social and/or environmental returns.Canada does not have a distinct regulatory framework to guide and support social enterprises' hybrid activities. SiG at MaRS program established to provide social entrepreneurs with knowledge, contacts and capital.

Social entrepreneurs carving out new and innovative ways of simultaneously yielding in financial, social and/or environmental returns. Canada does not have a distinct regulatory framework to guide and support social enterprises' hybrid activities.

VentureTalk Radio (VTR) tackles the difficult decisions that everyone must face when starting or owning a business. Hosted by Dr. Dale Pfost and Don Marvin who together have raised over $300 million dollars for companies, VTR airs every Friday at 3:00PM EST on WWBD AM 860, in Philadelphia. VentureTalk Radio uses a game-show format in which three entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to the show's hosts and guest judges, who ask questions and then score the presentations. Each entrepreneur gives a two-minute pitch about their product and business, and then judges critique the pitch and an executive summary that the entrepreneur sends previously. Judges offer pointers on what to look out for and how viable the idea is for financing. Winners from each week's show are eligible to be considered for the annual grand prize: A road trip with Marvin and Pfost to pitch their business to investors.

RenegadeCEOs.com - all for youth entrepreneurs (under the age of 19). Complete with cool, down-to-earth words, videos, blogs, communities (invite-only, for the top-quality entrepreneurs!?) and other goodies. Love that this is for youth, but has GREAT stuff for ALL entrepreneurs and I love the no-BS straight talk.

Entrepreneurs aren't born, they're made. Vivek Whadwa discusses the features that his research team found define the majority of entrepreneurs... which may not be what you thought. Education, a great idea and boredom?!

If you are starting out as a social entrepreneur or re-vamping your company, this book is for you. It holds insights on how to think like an entrepreneur, how to start an enterprise as a business not a charity. This book will teach you how successful social entrepreneurs: * Focus on community wants and needs * Match those with core competencies to provide the quality services * Assess risk and gauge opportunity * Develop new project ideas and test their feasibility * Write a business plan * Project finances in the plan * Tap into new sources of funding * Develop the idea of social entrepreneurship throughout the organization * Make sure that mission, not money, is the bottom line

Startup Canada spent a day at MaRS Discovery District, touring the facility and meeting with the entrepreneurs and leadership behind one of Ontario's leading drivers of innovation and small business, and interviewed MaRS CEO Ilse Treurnicht.

Biotechnologies au Canada: l'exemple de l'Ontario in Industrie Pharmaceutique, May 22, 2009 mentions that MaRS Discovery District is an Innovation Centre and mentions how it helps entrepreneurs to commercialize their research.

As stated in Burrill Canadian Biotech News, "MaRS Discovery District and Canadian Stem Cell Network have entered into a partnership agreement to pursue long-term public or private financing for the translational development activities currently being undertaken by Aggregate Therapeutics."

As stated in Burrill Canadian Biotech News, "MaRS Discovery District and Canadian Stem Cell Network have entered into a partnership agreement to pursue long-term public or private financing for the translational development activities currently being undertaken by Aggregate Therapeutics."

MobileMonday Toronto, the mobile industry-networking group, will open the floor for prospective mobile entrepreneurs to pitch their business ideas to some of Canada's leading VCs. Ready to Pitch Your Killer Idea? will look at raising capital for mobile ventures.

MobileMonday Toronto, the mobile industry-networking group, will open the floor for prospective mobile entrepreneurs to pitch their business ideas to some of Canada's leading VCs. Ready to Pitch Your Killer Idea? will look at raising capital for mobile ventures. Feb 17, 2009

Fast Company says "Another example of public, private and university collaboration is the MaRS discovery district, a nonprofit innovation center that brings together biotech researchers, VCs, and social entrepreneurs in the same part of downtown Toronto with several research hospitals."\n\nAnnotated link: http://www.diigo.com/058np

The Economist shows how different entrepreneurs around the world are creating businesses with the goal of improving the world, while still making money: social entreprenuership

Vincent Cheung of Shape Collage, a MaRS client, won the student entrepreneur national champion at the 2010 Student Entrepreneur National Competition, held in Calgary May 12.

Vincent Cheung is a recipient of the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneur (ACE) 2010 National Student Champion 2010. Cheung had no business background till he attended MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 course.

Dani Reiss, President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada Goose Inc. is this year's Ontario Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® winner.  Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, Chief Executive Officer, MaRS Discovery District is on the panel of judges.