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, 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 [...]
So maybe I am highly (positively) biased when it comes to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, but we can all agree that new venture creation takes a special blend of purpose, passion, patience, persistence and personality. The beauty of my job with OCRI is that I get to meet a fair sprinkling of folks, almost on a daily basis, [...]
Diwali, the great Indian festival - it is traditionally a Hindu festival, but has over the years become a secular societal festival with very little emphasis on its hindu roots - is here. Quite a few of our friends have asked us about Diwali, because we often (while explaining it) equate it to Christmas celebrations here [...]
I will be at the Ottawa Venture and Technology Summit (OVTS) for the next couple of days for a fun filled highly informative event that will feature the cream of Ottawas’ up and coming startups. Over the next two days I will be hearing pitches from eighteen Ottawa based, Canadian owned privately held, companies seeking to charm [...]
A (very) close confidant of mine shared this thought (a quote) with me just now, and I thought I will put it up on my blog right away because it captures so much of my own personal philosophy.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes [...]
A while ago I uploaded some coupons for advertisement on Facebook. I actually used the coupons myself for my website ElevatedJobs and they worked really well. On an average, I was getting anywhere between 10-30 visitors daily through facebook. So, bottomline, facebook advertisement works and works really well. If you are looking to set an [...]
So, I am officially back. My apologies for the delay in writing here but I have been busy working on my pet project - my very own job referral site for the talented mass in Eastern Ontario - www.elevatedjobs.com
If you get a chance, please do visit ElevatedJobs. It is a cornucopia of jobs and opportunities [...]
So I finally found a decent platform to create an online cartoon. Enclosed is the link for the same.
http://stripgenerator.com/strip/150329/
I will be looking at using this a lot more now. I thought I will share it with all of you. Please leave comments/feedback
Cheers,
Manu
A New Begining
Ottawa’s tech community has been at the receiving end of some blunt criticism about the lack of young business leadership in town. Time and again, since I made Ottawa home about five years ago, I have heard folks speaking from a position of authority (and standing on “podiums”) about Ottawa’s inability to produce [...]
