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

  Posted on February 28th, 2010

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  Manu Sharma, Tech Venture Challenge, TVC, tvc 2010, tvc2010

  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 [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

  Posted on December 3rd, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  CIX, CIX Top 20, CIX Top20, Cognovision, Foundry Program, Haroon Mirza, Manu Sharma, TalentBridge

  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

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  Creative Class, Creative Destruction, Creative Leadership, Manu Sharma, ManuSharma, Richard Florida, Talent Bridge, TalentBridge

  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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  Creative Class, Creative Destruction, Creative Leadership, Manu Sharma, ManuSharma, Richard Florida, Talent Bridge, TalentBridge

  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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  Geocities, Manu Sharma, Self Expression, User Generated Content, Yahoo

  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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  Benbria, Manu Sharma, OIC, OIC 2009, Ottawa Innovation Challenge, ThinkSM

  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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  Entrepreneurship, Manu Sharma, Ottawa, Steve Robins, TalentBridge, Willliam Armstrong

  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 [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

  Posted on May 30th, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  E101, E1O1, Manu Sharma, Scott Lake, Social Media, ThinkSM

  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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  Ammar Riaz, Coralie Lalonde, E2, Entrepreneurs Edge, Jill Woodley, Ken Charbonneau, Luc Lalande, Manu Sharma, Mark Pearson, Sonia Riahi, Tech Venture Challenge, TVC

  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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  Manu Sharma, Microsoft BizSpark, Ottawa BizSpark, TiE, TiE Ottawa

  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 [...]

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

  Posted on April 13th, 2009

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  Algonquin Applied Research Day, Algonquin College, Andrew Fisher, Manu Sharma

  Andrew Fisher at Algonquin Applied Research Day

  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, [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

  Posted on April 12th, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  CBC, Manu Sharma, Sonia Riahi, TalentBridge

  Update: CBC Radio coverage of TalentBridge on April 2nd, 2009

  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 [...]

• Entrepreneurship/Innovation, Work/Edu

  Posted on April 2nd, 2009

  Written by ManuSharma

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  CBC, Manu Sharma, TalentBridge

  TalentBridge on CBC radio

  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!

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