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• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Thoughts/Musings, Work/Edu

  Posted on February 28th, 2010

  Written by ManuSharma

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  Bootstrapping your business: Application to TVC

  

  In my role at OCRI as the Manager for Entrepreneurship Development, I regularly find myself advising young Ottawa entrepreneurs on the merits of bootstrapping. Ottawa has a rich portfolio of bootstrap support available in the form of numerous business plan competitions - including TVC - hosted locally and regionally. Besides the obvious financial rewards - the [...]

• Reviews, Work/Edu

  Posted on December 8th, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  HOSTGATOR - Most reliable web hosting for OAK for 2009

  For a second year going, we are proud to list HostGator as the most reliable web hosting around.
  In 2009, OAK helped 50+ clients set up their web hosting to host their web presences. Over the last 2 years, we have looked at (and used) a number of hosting options and reviewed the performance of all of [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

  Posted on December 3rd, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  Cognovision wins CIX Top20

  

  I just heard some wonderful news that I wanted to share right away. This is a great Ottawa success story, and specifically a Carleton U. success story that can be traced back to the Foundry Program. Cognovision, co-founded by two Carleton U. students, one of whom (Haroon Mirza) was with the Foundry Program in 2003-2004 [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Thoughts/Musings, Work/Edu

  Posted on November 2nd, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  TalentBridge revisited: Inspiration from Richard Florida

  Richard Florida made a statement about educational institutions in his talk on Friday at the “Creative Leadership Conference”. He said “Education Institutions should be about knowledge discovery and learning”. Allied to that statement he quoted Peter Drucker and mentioned “Research Universities as we know them will one day die”. The specific phrase he used for educational [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Thoughts/Musings, Work/Edu

  Posted on October 30th, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  A call for “Reset” - Richard Florida supports the TBridge model

  Today I was at the Creative Leadership conference hosted by the Conference Board of Canada and had the wonderful opportunity of listening to Dr. Richard Florida. To put it succintly, Ottawa needs more thought leaders like Dr. Florida to come through and make a case for “Reset”. Dr. Florida at length talked about how it [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Thoughts/Musings

  Posted on October 27th, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  Mourning the death of Geocities: A web giant lost

  I am not sure how many people noticed it, but Yahoo quietly killed Geocities on the 26th of October. Again not sure how many people know this, but at its peak Geocities was the third most visited site on the web. What happened? …… Really, What happened?
  How could the website that heralded the arrival of [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

  Posted on August 23rd, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  OIC 2009 (A Grand Success) is officially closed

  

  It is 11:24 p.m. on the night of 23rd of August, 2009, and I just got home after successfully closing OIC 2009 - a new micro initiative that we launched out of TalentBridge. Details of Ottawa Innovation Challenge (OIC), that I co-developed and co-managed with Steve Robins and William Armstrong with support … …

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

  Posted on July 26th, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  Sneak Peak - Upcoming “TalentBridge Initiative”

  These last two weeks have been hugely rewarding.
  What started as a casual discussion in one of the TalentBridge meetings is starting to develop into a community initiative that has been on my drawing board - and has been close to my heart - for some time. Through TalentBridge, I am continually trying to build and [...]

• Thoughts/Musings, Work/Edu

  Posted on June 22nd, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  Ideas and Dreams: Drivers for TalentBridge

  

  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 [...]

• Fun Stuff, Work/Edu

  Posted on June 5th, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  Done with my FITT training: Certified CITP now

  

  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 [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

  Posted on May 30th, 2009

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  Man on the moon: Reality of Social Media - E1O1 is here again

  

  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 …

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

  Posted on May 13th, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  Tech Venture Challenge 2009 - Youth Entrepreneurship Celebrated

  

  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 [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

  Posted on April 19th, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  Managing and running the Microsoft BizSpark Program in Ottawa with TiE Ottawa

  

  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 [...]

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