Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Feedback Virgin
Before you bought your last new business suit, you probably stepped in front of a three-way mirror to see how you looked in it. You may have caught a glimpse of yourself at an angle you’ve never seen before, a view you hardly recognized. If we can live for years without seeing a complete picture of our physical selves, imagine what we fail to recognize about our less visible qualities…
Darryl Praill
Marketing Mayhem
Modern Marketing is all about the Technology
Launching a new website is no easy task especially when you’re a marketer marketing to marketers! Yowza! But my team and I recently completed a project where we did just that. While we’re proud, we’re also relieved. All that technology and integration is painful. In fact, I heard the comments made that I’m the most expensive web master they’ve ever employed. Truth is, I’m also probably the least qualified, technically speaking!
Trina Alexson
The Management Maze
Vacation Power
The month of August is pretty quiet around the office. Kids are out of school, and here in Canada it has finally thawed out enough to go outside. Some people are taking advantage to get a couple of weeks of sun on their face before kids are back in school, then Halloween, then snow flies and then winter hibernation sets in again…
Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Performance and Governance…it’s personal!
This has been an assessment year for me…
Francis Moran
In the Media
‘Canadian VCs are retarded’
That was just one of the more intemperate statements made earlier this week by Red Herring publisher and CEO Alex Vieux at his company’s Canada 08 conference at Mont Tremblant, Quebec. Vieux also slammed Canadians as “risk-averse,” told one VC he was lazy for having a lower pace of completed deals than the average Silicon Valley firm, and advised companies to avoid federal-government-owned BDC Venture Capital because one of its partners said he’d have to vet with a committee his inclination to invest in a company.
Francis Moran
In the Media
University of Waterloo incubator residence opens
A fascinating new experiment in encouraging technical entrepreneurship amongst university students gets officially launched tomorrow night at the University of Waterloo. A mash-up of student residence and business incubator, the university’s new VeloCity is billed as "a place where some of UW’s most talented, entrepreneurial, creative and technologically savvy students will be united under one roof to work on the future of mobile communications, web and new media."
Francis Moran
In the Media
Startup Camp Montreal 3 announces speakers, calls for entries
The Montréal start up community will gather at Société des arts technologiques November 27 for the third edition of Startup Camp Montreal, an event dedicated, as its website says, "to all things startup."
Francis Moran
In the Media
Robert Scoble touches the elephant
One of the most frequent and, to tell the truth, most boring and least helpful, themes in the blogosphere is the all-too-common declaration by one blogger or another that PR is dead. With all the authority of his well-read blog, Robert Scoble started the ball rolling again this week with a post Monday that celebrated the fact that he actually heard about a new company - more of a raw beta concept, really - from some source other than a PR or corporate flack…
Dave Williamson
In the Field
Hiring Sales People - Finding Gems and Weeding Out Bad Apples
Having participated in the interviewing of hundreds, hiring of dozens, and firing of quite a few Sales people over the years, I’ve certainly seen my share of gems and bad apples. In this blog I wanted to share a few of my experiences that may perhaps guide you on your next Sales hire.
Vincent Guyaux
Serial CEO
The Last-Minute Presentation Deck
I have trained myself over the years to be prepared as early as possible when I have to deliver something. I guess it comes from my high school days when I was finishing all my planned studies and homework as soon as possible to get myself out of the classroom and into the dark room (in this digital era, do I have to explain what a dark room is)?