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About Manu Sharma

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...

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  • Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

    Posted on March 25th, 2010

    Written by ManuSharma

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    TalentBridge receives Employer Excellence Award from HIO

    TalentBridge receives Employer Excellence Award from HIO

    TalentBridge, OCRI’s flagship talent engagement program, receives Employer Excellence Award from Hire Immigrants Ottawa

    OTTAWA, ON, March 24, 2010 – TalentBridge, one of OCRI’s most popular youth engagement programs, has received the 2010 Employer Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in the area of recruitment from Hire Immigrants Ottawa. The presentation was made earlier today, during the Employer [...]

  • Fun Stuff, Reviews, Work/Edu

    Posted on March 21st, 2010

    Written by ManuSharma

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    Wordpress Ottawa’s Long Awaited Wordpress Plugins List

    1) WPtouch iPhone Theme
    With a single click, WPtouch transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android or BlackBerry touch mobile device.
    The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish [...]

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

    Posted on March 18th, 2010

    Written by ManuSharma

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    TalentBridge on OpinionOttawa

    I have been meaning to write a small TalentBridge piece on OpinionOttawa for some time now. TalentBridge was recognized as a best practise in the “Talent White Paper” and it is really gratifying to see the effort of the last two years being recognized in this manner. One of the comments left for the Talent [...]

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

    Posted on February 28th, 2010

    Written by ManuSharma

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    Bootstrapping your business: Application to TVC

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 [...]

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