The life and ramblings of Canada's most innovative Technology leader
Should your startup take VC money? Speaking with fellow investors, we often chat about whether we are always doing the right thing by investing in the businesses we do. It’s not that we do or don’t believe in the specific
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Gaining the experience to build data, ETL, ML and AI pipelines in the real world For years and years, I have been progressively building my way up to this. From the times early in my career where I was simply
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Growing a tech startup 30 employees in less than one year This is something that I have now done many times over in my personal career, being a very early engineer at many places that required my expertise, not only
Read more#Incubators and #Accelerators leading the charge to power (young) Canadian entrepreneurs One of the reasons #Canada’s economy is suitable for young founders to begin companies in is due to the rich incubator and accelerator system. Organizations like the #DMZ, #MaRS
Read more2017 was the year of #MeToo – let’s keep the momentum going #HappyInternationalWomensDay The employees surveyed at the companies on this list had a minimum 90 per cent positive response to the statement “I am treated fairly regardless of my
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Full on alignment required The way high-performing organizations operate today is radically different from how they operated 10 years ago. Yet many other organizations continue to operate according to industrial-age models that are 100 years old or more, weighed down
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Canada should lead in the battle of intelligence platforms I have been the VP #Engineering and #CTO at Ficstar, a leading data extraction platform for nearly the past two years and in those times I have seen the need for
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