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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Global interest in Canadian tech jobs has increased by 58%. Experts believe the global interest has made these jobs easier to fill. In 2016, 16.4% In 2016, Winnipeg’s tech market saw a growth spurt which led the city to become a booming center for tech talent in Canada. Inno Tech Alberta Inc. The Quebec Tech Sector.

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Small Businesses A Great Fit For The New Nimble Marketplace

YoungUpstarts

By Raj Subramaniam, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, FedEx Services. Here are three megatrends that all businesses should be aware of, as well as some tips that will help them better engage with customers and grow their businesses globally. 5 “State of Mobile Commerce”, Criteo, February 2016.

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13 Israeli startups that received global recognition this week

VC Cafe

This week saw several of them get global recognition. Founded in 2016 by Daniel Koppel. Founded in 2012 by Lior Akavia. Founded in 2016 by Ran Shaul, Allon Bloch, and Adam Singolda. Founded in 2016 by Dimitri Sirota and Nimrod Vax, the company raised $146M to date. CNBC Disruptor 50.

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Business Immigration With CanadaCIS: How To Start A Successful Business In Canada

YoungUpstarts

Still, under this heading, Canada was also recognized by Forbes as the best country for doing business in 2012. Canada also boasts of strong industries that are globally recognized for their advanced knowledge and applications of modern technology. These are facts and figures attesting to Canada’s illustrious market and economy.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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Venture Outlook 2016

Both Sides of the Table

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. We doubled down on our Ethereum bet through the DAO crisis during Summer 2016. We were infatuated with tech.