The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Waterloo, Canada-based Kik recently passed 80 million users, which was given particular significance from local media who noted that it took the 4-and-a-half year old startup past BlackBerry and its BBM mobile messaging solution. I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. It began at RIM.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur CTO Hire Startup Mobile 167

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

But, it wasn’t directionally wrong, looking at enormous multinational companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook which rose from the hallowed ground of Silicon Valley. Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2017

Every 1 percent increase in ethnocultural diversity by Canadian companies correlates to a 2.4 percent increase in productivity, according to a new study by the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo. Smart companies and organizations encourage the trend because of the benefits a diverse base creates.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Every 1 percent increase in ethnocultural diversity by Canadian companies correlates to a 2.4 percent increase in productivity, according to a new study by the Centre for International Governance Innovation, in Waterloo. Smart companies and organizations encourage the trend because of the benefits a diverse base creates.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2018

The Lazaridis School of Business & Economics houses an MBA program allowing candidates to specialize in entrepreneurship ; those pursuing full time study at their Waterloo campus are immersed in the city’s tech-forward, innovative culture.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Today, large companies are creating Innovation Outposts in Innovation Clusters like Silicon Valley in order to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. This group needs to carefully consider six key questions to understand if and where an Innovation Outpost makes sense for their company.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

To be clear, we do invest in companies here opportunistically but we do not actively scout here.) This takes capital away from investing in companies themselves. At this cost-of-living level, the Bay Area is no longer affordable to many founders who are not already rich. This is absolutely insane. This is a no brainer.

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