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Karen Schulman Dupuis

How a small startup can attract a big partner - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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    Founded in 2009 and launched late in 2010, Locationary Inc. is a Toronto-based company that synchronizes local business information from many different sources and broadcasts it to diverse kinds of customers. Its mission is "managing the world's local data."
Tim T

TC50: Yext Offers Local Businesses A Smart Inbox For Phone Calls - 0 views

  • Local businesses can use the Yext Calls software to process incoming phone calls and organize them based on semantic analysis of what was said during the conversation, providing them with an easy way of searching or browsing through them at any point
  • Based on keywords that occurred in the call, the software can detect that e.g. price estimates were requested for a car repair or which part of what type of vehicle the caller was having problems with exactly
  • The program can even automatically detect if any appointments
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  • Expert panel Q&A
  • how do you convince business owners of your value proposition?
  • it’s an end-to-end solution for them to advertise smarter on the Web
  • is there adverse selection? are the merchants who are most likely to want phone calls least likely to get the web to get them?
  • We found most merchants overall prefer to receive phone calls
  • What’s the biggest of the 12 categories you support now?
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    Local small businesses want phone calls, not click-throughs?
Sarah Hickman

The Well-Designed Global R&D Network - 0 views

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    Consider the two faces of the global innovation movement. Company A, having grown through acquisition, produces multiple brands for multiple markets and operates a worldwide network of research and product development centers. Each of its R&D sites was initially responsible for its own brands and local market, but with globalization these distinctions have lost their importance. Company B, on the other hand, was built largely through internal growth and has two global brands. It operates one primary R&D center supported by a handful of special-purpose sites around the world. This comparatively sparse network has helped Company B win wide admiration for the efficiency of its engineering. Because expanding the number of nodes in a network exponentially increases its complexity, it is not surprising that Company A's R&D structure is more expensive to operate. Company A has considered closing some sites, but has resisted doing so because it fears losing capabilities and insights, and roiling local markets. Meanwhile, incremental budget cuts have chipped away at engineer and supplier morale. Having built its network to maximize the value associated with market access, it is now forced to manage the network for cost. Most global innovation networks look like Company A's - and suffer the same problems. Company B's R&D structure is clearly more productive, but it is not necessarily ideal either. Its network might be too compact, limiting access to knowledge that could maximize performance. Thus, to identify principles and practices for creating a truly well-designed innovation network, Booz Allen Hamilton and INSEAD, the international business school, surveyed R&D leaders in 186 companies from 17 industry sectors in 19 nations in 2005. The survey results, and our own experience, suggest one central truth: Organizations benefit when they configure their innovation networks for cost and manage them for value.
Sarah Hickman

Northern Light Search: Home - 0 views

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    Wiki-like and boolean-based "Northern Light Search provides access to business and industry news from thousands of hand-selected business news sites, leading business publications, industry authority blogs, regional newspapers, and national news sources." Covered areas include: * Business News: 500,000+ business news stories from newswires, newspapers, corporate news feeds and publications. * Industry Authority Blogs: 200,000+ posts from selected business and industry authority blogs (from journalists, market research analysts, and corporations) * National and International News: 90,000+ news stories from large national and international news feeds. * Regional and Local News: 180,000+ news stories from regional and local news feeds. * White Papers: 7,000+ company submitted white papers, webcasts, case studies and other IT product information. Registered users can browse, search, save, receive Search Alerts, contribute, and set personal user preferences.
George Botos

Loblaws to put solar panels on some local stores - Retail - Local - Ottawa Business Jou... - 0 views

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    Loblaw Companies Ltd. plans to install rooftop solar panels on its Innes Road store in Orleans as part of a pilot project that could see the grocery chain outfitting up to 136 of its Ontario locations with the renewable energy technology.
Assunta Krehl

Time to Connect - OpenFile - May 3, 2010 - 0 views

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    OpenFile finds new and better ways of collaborating with members of the Toronto community and local freelance journalists in order to create, update and curate compelling local news. OpenFile partners include the University of Waterloo, at MaRS and at the Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Assunta Krehl

A globetrotting Canuck journo aims to revolutionize online news - The Globe and Mail - ... - 0 views

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    Wilf Dinnick is the Founding Editor of Thefile.ca. TheFile.ca is a MaRS client and is looking at new and better ways of collaborating with members of the Toronto community and local freelance journalists in order to create, update and curate compelling local news.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Locationary finds $2.5-million in financing - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

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    Locationary Inc., which is dedicated to improving the quality of local business data for mobile and web content, has secured $2.5-million from new investors, including the Investment Accelerator Fund and Trellis Capital. Existing investors Extreme Venture Partners, Plazacorp Ventures, Angels and Management were also involved in the financing.
Melissa Hughes

Local education startup Crowdmark aims to change how teachers grade - YongeStreet - Jun... - 0 views

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    It is the bane of every teacher's existence: grading. Though essential, it's also repetitive and time-consuming. It is also increasingly prone to concerns about inequity: from grade inflation to inconsistent standards across different classrooms, sometimes parents, students, and even teachers themselves have a hard time deciding just what the grades they have assigned actually mean.
Assunta Krehl

Sowing the seeds of curiosity to grow Canada's bio-economy - Vancouver Sun - May 22, 2012 - 0 views

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    Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada is a biotech competition where high school students are mentored by local scientists. MaRS helps create successful global businesses from Canada's science, technology and social innovation.
Cathy Bogaart

Local Data DJs Can Spin Their Own Around Locationary's 'Saturn' - Street Fight, Nov 16,... - 1 views

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    MaRS client Locationary talks about Saturn, its new beta -- a "Federated Data Exchange Platform." -- what the system can do, and how location-based startups can use it.
Assunta Krehl

Extra, Extra: Bixi Benched, Startups Mapped, and Gary Webster's Shelved Subway Report -... - 1 views

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    Hamutal Dotan, Torontonist blogger states "MaRS infographics provides insights on local startups, where they are located, and why they cluster where they do."
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Storage system software | 2011 Products of the Year - 0 views

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    The cache optimization technology of Nevex Virtual Technologies CacheWorks 1.0 lets data storage administrators accelerate specific data by application, file type and location. The product installs on physical and virtual servers, and offloads I/O from primary storage to local high-performance media so storage is used for capacity, not overprovisioned for performance.
Miguel Amante

No-frills project offers ownership at affordable price - Yourhome.ca - June 4, 2010 - 1 views

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    A local affordable condominium development partners with SiG@MaRS client Home Ownership Alternatives, a non-profit financial company that potential homebuyers on the edge of the market
Cathy Bogaart

Building New York City's Innovation Economy - Center for an Urban Future - 1 views

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    Looks like Toronto/Ontario/Canada is not the only place having problems... A report released by the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank, finds that while New York City is home to several of the world's leading scientific research institutions, these universities and research centers have not yet become powerful catalysts for entrepreneurship and local economic development the way similar institutions have in a number of other regions. The study concludes that New York has long failed to harness the full potential of its pre-eminent academic research institutions to build a meaningful innovation economy; an enormous missed opportunity given that the city desperately needs to diversify its economy and cultivate new engines of job growth.
Cathy Bogaart

Waterloo Region Economic Development - Canada's Technology Triangle - Waterloo, Ontario... - 0 views

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    Canada's Technology Triangle Inc (CTT) is a not-for-profit, public-private regional economic development partnership that markets the competitive advantages of the Waterloo Region to the world, and works to attract new businesses, investment and talent to the Region. As an information provider and business network facilitator, CTT is typically the first point of contact for enterprises outside the Waterloo Region interested in start-up, expansion, or relocation to the Waterloo Region. CTT's activity complements its partner municipalities, who focus on local business retention and expansion, and investment-related site location, business cost, servicing, and development approval considerations. CTT's municipal partners are the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, and the townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich.
Cathy Bogaart

Sprouter - 0 views

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    Facebook for entrepreneurs. Connect with other innovators to network, share ideas and collaborate. Solicit real-time feedback and benefit from previous discussions. Events - Discover and post relevant events in your local area. Answer : "What are you working on?"
Assunta Krehl

Taste T.O. - Food & Drink In Toronto » T.O. Tidbits - Sunday June 14th - 0 views

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    Article list the latest local food and restaurant news in Toronto. Mercatto is mentioned as having its' opening in the MaRS Centre.
Sarah Hickman

Business Edge News Magazine - businessedge.ca - Ontario Edition - 0 views

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    Business Edge provides in-depth coverage of Canadian business scenes. Albeit general in nature, entrepreneurs can use this source to stay on top of local and national entrepreneurial scenes: * Business Edge offers business and tax tips, news, and profiles. * Business Edge publishes entrepreneurial competitions and awards. * "Edge Lists" are available (for a price); provided with the intent to help better market oneself or company. Business Edge publishes 5 regional editions: Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba/Saskatchewan, Edmonton/North, and Calgary/Red Deer.
Cathy Bogaart

Science for the greater economic good : Nature - 0 views

  • A 2006 study (see http://tinyurl.com/bv8xk6) concluded that if the university disappeared, 77,000 local jobs and a net value in the region of £21 billion (US$29.5 billion) would go with it.
  • universities in the United States have similarly become important generators of local and national economic growth.
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    Shows again how innovation could potentially help us out of the recession: BOOK REVIEW -Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth by Roger L. Geiger and & Creso M. Sá
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