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Ilse Treurnicht On The Purpose of MaRS Discovery District - TVO - September 29, 2012 - 0 views

ww3.tvo.org/...urpose-mars-discovery-district MaRS innovation entrepreneurs small business startups technology social entrepreneurs
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  • Melissa Hughes on 04 Oct 12
     
    Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District, explains the purpose of MaRS, which is to foster and promote Canadian innovations by providing an environment where science, technology and social entrepreneurs work side by side.
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MaRS launches Jolt accelerator for Web, mobile startups - 0 views

www.itbusiness.ca/...News.asp advisors Sue McGill MaRS JOLT accelerator entrepreneurship mentor workspace funding
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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 26 Apr 12
     
    Over 70 companies, entrepreneurs and financiers have signed on to provide advice, services and/or investment to the program, including Polar Mobile, Google, Zynga, CFC Media Lab, The Working Group, Media Profile, PostMedia Network Inc., Global Accelerator Network, and the Jet Cooper Web design agency in Toronto.
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MaRS Launches New Startup Accelerator in Canada - Individual.com - April 27, 2012 - 0 views

www.individual.com/storyrss.php ICE Sue McGill Advisors JOLT MaRS Funding Ilse Treurnicht Board Members Clients Polar Mobile
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  • Assunta Krehl on 01 May 12
     
    MaRS announced the creation of JOLT, a new technology accelerator dedicated to building high-growth web and mobile companies that promise to transform the way consumers and enterprises connect, work and play. 
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Jolt accelerator startups to get $30K in initial funding - IT Business.ca - April 30, 2012 - 0 views

www.itbusiness.ca/...news.asp JOLT Technology Funding accelerator MaRS Global Accelerator Network
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  • Assunta Krehl on 01 May 12
     
    JOLT was created by MaRS and is a new technology accelerator dedicated to building high-growth web and mobile companies that promise to transform the way consumers and enterprises connect, work and play. Applications for the JOLT program are being accepted until May 30. JOLT also announced that the program has joined the U.S.-based Global Accelerator Network, a group of accelerators from around the world which was founded in 2010.
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JOLT's first six startups have heavy social component - IT Business.ca - August 16, 2012 - 0 views

www.itbusiness.ca/...News.asp JOLT clients accelerator technology social media Prof Venpage ShelfLife SlingRide Greengage Mobile tout funding MaRS
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  • Assunta Krehl on 17 Aug 12
     
    The following six start-ups will comprise JOLT's first summer cohort: Prof (interactive social education platform), Vennpage (infographics), ShelfLife (social commerce for fans of collectibles), SlingRide (social network for booking rideshare trips), Greengage Mobile (social platform encouraging eco-sustainable practices in the workplace) and tout.it  (social media platform for sports fans).
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Teens tackle startup boot camp - Yonge Street Media - August 8, 2012 - 0 views

www.yongestreetmedia.ca/...marsfutureleaders0808.aspx MaRS Future Leaders entrepreneurship business plan education
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  • Assunta Krehl on 20 Aug 12
     
    MaRS's launched a Future Leaders Series this summer which offered 20 students between the ages of 13 and 15 the chance to experience the life of a "MaRS-ian entrepreneur."  The participants were provided an opportunity to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges that their business model was feasible and to demonstrate how they planned to use the $1,000 of prize money up for grabs.
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Life on MaRS: Help for over 2,000 startups and counting - IT Business.ca - December 14,... - 0 views

www.itbusiness.ca/...News.asp MaRS Phase 2 Phase II Don Duval Krista Jones Advisory Services ICE Polar Mobile
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  • Assunta Krehl on 22 Dec 11
     
    MaRS Discovery District is expanding. MaRS' Phase 2 development will be completed in 2013. Don Duval, Vice President of Advisory Services states " Our mandate is to work with early stage ventures and help these companies grow ... The program's success, he says, is measured by "the amount of jobs and wealth our companies notable successes.
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Jet Cooper launches Design in Residence program - Financial Post - Nov 7, 2011 - 0 views

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 07 Nov 11
     
    Jet Cooper announces the launch of the Design in Residence program with Montreal's FounderFuel, Waterloo's VeloCity and Toronto's MaRS Commons. The new program - slated to start in January - will provide early stage companies at some of Canada's top startup accelerators with user experience design mentorship, resources and education.
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You really can achieve great things when industry, academia work together - Francis Mor... - 0 views

francis-moran.com/...ndustry-academia-work-together Clients Funding technology MaRS
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  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Feb 12
     
    Jason Flicks shares his insights of his successful adventures with his companies levering IP and provides entrepreneurs ideas for alternative funding options for their ventures. i.e. MaRS Centre helping entrepreneur and associate professor at the University of Toronto with his project of radical uses of Bluetooth.
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PriceMyRide.com featured on CTV's On Your Side with Pat Foran - 0 views

toronto.ctv.ca/consumer clients marscommons consumer entrepreneurship startup
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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 08 Feb 12
     
    PriceMyRide is featured by CTV's Pat Foran "On Your Side"
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Why Canada's tech entrepreneurs prefer American backers - Financial Post - July 21, 2013 - 0 views

business.financialpost.com/...reners-prefer-american-backers MaRS canada tech entrepreneurs
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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 25 Jul 13
     
    "Carol Leaman recently raised $3.3-million for her Waterloo-based startup, Axonify. The funding round involved two U.S. investors: Harmony Partners, a venture capital firm, and education giant Kaplan. Ms. Leaman, who sold another company, PostRank, to Google in 2011, had the choice of adding a Canadian investor to the round, but declined. "
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How Incubators Speed the Start-up Process - 1 views

www.inc.com/...more-startup-incubators.html entrepreneurship policy innovative organizations
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  • Cathy Bogaart on 24 Aug 10
     
    Seasoned entrepreneurs and investors select a few founders with sound business ideas, provide space to work, hands-on coaching, strategizing and butt-kicking. The incubator companies go on be profitable. It's a recipe for success.
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Why We Need More Funding for Big Science - 0 views

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  • Why We Need More Funding for Big Science
  • fundamental research and technological development
  • Often wildly speculative, expensive, and with no explicit commercial purpose, this research nonetheless has a powerful spillover effect in the long term.
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  • We're riding on innovations that happened 20, 30, 40 years ago. One has to keep having ideas."
  • "You cannot have innovation without a fount of new knowledge -- and that is what research is about,"
  • has laid the foundation for much of America's economic growth over the past half a century.
  • Cathy Bogaart on 24 Aug 10
     
    R&D has laid the foundation for economic growth, giving us fuel cells, computer databases, the Internet, satellite navigation -- unexpected spillovers of R&D funding. To stay competitive in the innovative industries, government funding, it is argued, is required to continue.
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen | Derek Sivers - 1 views

sivers.org/how2hire ict startup basics hr
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  • Cathy Bogaart on 14 Dec 10
     
    You've got an idea. But you're all business. You need to bring your brilliant idea to a technical reality (virtual or otherwise). Here's the step-by-step on how to find the right guy or gal for the (coding) job.
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Addictive Campaign Captures Mobile Award - eSource Canada Business News Network - 0 views

www.mediacastermagazine.com/...ISArticle.asp awards & competitions 2009 MobileMonday Toronto Marketing Award MobileMonday Toronto
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  • Addictive Mobility and its Brisk iPhone campaign as the winner of the 2009 MobileMonday Toronto Marketing Award.
  • Mobile Media World 09 is one of the key anchor events of MOBILEINNOVATIONWEEK in Toronto September 12-16, 2009.
  • The September 8th award event was held at the MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto. Since announcing the partnership with MaRS in February 2009, MobileMonday Toronto has experienced explosive growth with monthly attendance exceeding 250+ attendees and has received general appreciation for the chapter's approach in supporting all stakeholders within the mobile industry which includes telecom providers, agencies, advertisers, device manufacturers, startups, venture capital and developers in addition to many industry verticals such as search, m-commerce, advertising, and media.
  • Assunta Krehl on 11 Sep 09
     
    Addictive Mobility and its Brisk iPhone campaign was the winner of the 2009 MobileMonday Toronto Marketing Award. The award event was held on Sept 8, 2009 at the MaRS Centre. Sept 10, 2009
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Creating an Early Stage Series A Pitch « Adventures in Startups & VC - 0 views

commonangels.wordpress.com/...-an-early-stage-series-a-pitch finance investors strategy early stages venture capital
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  • Sarah Hickman on 08 Sep 09
     
    Series A pitches have a different emphasis than pitches for later rounds. Improve your presentation by reading this blog post from Common Angels (a Boston-based group of 70 private investors and two co-investment funds under management). The powerpoint template is worth adding to any start-up's collection of resources.
  • Sarah Hickman on 08 Sep 09
     
    Series A pitches have a different emphasis than pitches for later rounds. Improve your presentation by reading this blog post from Common Angels (a Boston-based group of 70 private investors and two co-investment funds under management). The powerpoint template is worth adding to any start-up's collection of resources.
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