Manu is engaged with the Ottawa Centre for Research & Innovation (OCRI) as the Manager of Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Support, a role in which he manages, facilitates and supports different Youth Entrepreneurship programs in the Ottawa-Hull area. In this role Manu is closely associated with a number of Ottawa youth entrepreneurship programs, including the Talent Bridge Program, the Foundry Program, the EIEF program of the Faculty of Engineering in University of Ottawa, the Wes Nicol Business Plan Competition and the Tech Venture Challenge (TVC). Read more...
My fascination with ideas goes back to my early days growing up in - what in a Canadian context would often be classified as - a tough environment. With not much going on around us, us being my younger sister and I, our ideas were our imaginary jet streams that we rode to give shape [...]
Yaaaaahooooo … I am finally done with my Forum for International Trade (FITT) training and I am now a “Certified International Trade Professional (CITP)“. After eight (over two full days) courses, six (three hours each) exams, one (take home killer) international marketing plan and another (take home killer) international business plan … over almost one year [...]
TalentBridge is hosting another E1O1 session and this time we are dedicating the session to a discussion around Social Media. The world took notice when Microsoft paid $150 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook back in late 2007 raising the valuation of Facebook to a whooping $15 billion, and the world actually fell backwards when Facebook recently accepted a $200 million investment from Digital Sky Technologies for 1.96 percent of Facebook stake giving Facebook a valuation of $10 billion. What is happening with this Social Media …
Another edition of Tech Venture Challenge (TVC) is behind us, and was it a “blow your mind” edition or what … The 2009 TVC, in my opinion, had the strongest competition that I have seen in my eight plus years of association with the challenge. All three presenting teams deserve a huge round of applause, even [...]
TiE Ottawa is rolling out the Microsoft Biz Spark Program in Ottawa as a network partner, and I will be the principal on this particular initiative for TiE with the core mandate for the management and delivery of the program in Ottawa. I have a strong affiliation with TiE, I have been a member of TiE [...]
This last Thursday I had the privelege of listening to two really good speakers, Andrew Fisher from Wesley Clover and Peter Hofstra from Greenrock Asset Management, at the Algonquin Applied Research Day. They both touched on the topics of Applied Research, Talent Development and Engagement and the general state of the Canadian Economy. Enclosed below, [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, TalentBridge - my dream project at OCRI - was on CBC Radio 91.5 FM on April 2nd, 2009 during the Ottawa Morning show! Julie Ireton, a reporter at CBC Radio with extensive experience reporting on business, technology and politics, has been reporting on some optimistic businesses stories during these recession/Nortel economic times and [...]
So a really proud moment for me is coming up tomorrow. TalentBridge, my program - my dream project, is being profiled on CBC radio tomorrow. That’s right, TalentBridge will be on CBC Radio tomorrow (April 3rd, 2009) at 7:15 a.m. in the morning news show!
Auditions for CBC Television’s top-rated reality show Dragons’ Den are returning to national television for its fourth season. For those who do not know about the show, the show brings budding entrepreneurs in direct contact (read on “National TV”) with five multi-millionaires in an intense challenging environment. The five multi-millionaires - known as “Dragons” - offer participants [...]
I hit this video while randomly going through youtube channels on innovation, and the message resonated with me immediately. I think what Tom Peters says this video about Competitive Benchmarking and how it stifles innovation is good “food for thought” for all of us who are busy developing their business strategy while reading case studies [...]
So I am finally travelling to Mexico … I have wanted to go there since ever and, to be honest, it has always fallen off my radar while planning a vacation because nothing really stood out. That is till we recently hit ME Cancun while searching for a winter getaway (and we were looking for places in [...]
I do not get angry easily … I have always maintained an objective opinion that in getting angry about something you are either overlooking your part of the fault, or refusing to see the opportunity to learn from something or just plain simple playing into the hands of the entity that has a vested interest [...]
So, a year that promises to be a “defining” year is finally here. Lets look at the positives and count our blessings … Barrack Obama is going to be in office … Canadian politicians will continue fighting like “opportunistic” dogs … hmmmm … what else … Wait … I think I kind of ran out [...]
