Just a little introduction, my name is Omar Shammas, I am a computer systems engineering student about to enter my fourth year at Carleton University. I have always had an interest and a passion to start my own business but I’ve never known where to start. Finally, after searching for a long time, a friend ...

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Last night I had the opportunity to have a round table discussion with Mr. Scott Lake, he is currently a Social Media Consultant at Mercury Grove, and founder of StartupOttawa. This E1O1 event was a lot of fun! It was great to hear Scott’s professional perspective about Social Media. One of the first things he ...

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You get to hear the story of two friends starting a small e - commerce website to sell snowboards, and turn it into a massive web platform to build new products’ websites on the go…and you get to hear it from the man who did it. The name of the game is shopify, and the player ...

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Peter Fillmore is undoubtedly a leader in the Ottawa community, and the succes he has been having with the Entrepreneur’s edge series is very clear when you walk into a room filled with more than 40 people on an early Tuesday morning, during what would otherwise be working hours.  Now in its 4th year, this information-packed ...

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My name is Martin Cayouette. I am currently studying Software Engineering @ Carleton University, Ottawa. I was born in Dalhousie, New Brunswick and lived in Gatineau, Québec for most of my life. If there’s something people know about me is I pride myself in having a balance life. Ottawa and it’s surroundings is the ...

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What an exciting presentation from Warren Tomlin, and Mike Burns did we assist to this morning. Sitting there listening to them felt like being catapulted into the future of marketing, and getting a preview of what costumer interaction will look like in a few years. Several things stood out for me this morning: apart from a very ...

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Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the highly successfull The Tiping Point, and Blink, came back last year with yet another bestseller - Outliers, the analysis of what makes people truly successfull. The premise of the book is that while there are many bright, talented and hard working people out there, societal and cultural advantages are ...

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Denis Zgonjanin Hi folks, my name is Denis Zgonjanin, I’ve joined TalentBridge a couple of weeks ago, so this post should serve as a brief introduction. Academic and Professional Experience I’m currently a student at Carleton University, majoring in Software Engineering. Besides working with all the good folks here at TalentBridge and OCRI, I work for a ...

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If we were to assume Gladwell’s theories are correct, then what skill sets should one be practicing for 10,000 hrs and/or what environmental factors exist today that help one become an outlier entrepreneur? I believe someone should do what he or she loves and do it a lot!  This might result in spending well over 10,000hrs.  ...

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I was thinking about the notion that “the client is always right”, and I was considering the effects of such an assumption on medium and long term strategy.  That sentence is so common place, and something we hear so often, that it has practically become the 11th commandment. What we often forget is that to a ...

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