Technology

Twitter Tips from Space

What can you learn about social media from a middle-aged astronaut? Plenty! 8 lessons from Cmdr. Chris Hadfield

Apple’s Big Mistake: the MVP

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"Minimum viable product" strategies can work for emerging categories and radical new ideas. The Apple Maps debacle shows the Four Ps apply just about everywhere else

Don’t Start That Tech Company—Yet

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Sure, the people who run successful tech startups are today's rock stars of business. But most "wantrepreneurs" would do well to postpone their launches

How to Be a Star (HOT 50 profile)

VMG Cinematic's CEO, Mark Campbell; photograph by Vanessa Heins

VMG Cinematic guarantees 500,000 views of the YouTube videos it creates for clients. Here are its top tips for online video success

To Have and To Hold (HOT 50 profile)

Modiface's president and CEO, Parham Aarabi; photograph by Vanessa Heins

Hanging onto talent is as crucial as recruiting it. Here’s how Toronto-based Modiface has retained the brainy engineers needed to build a world-beating business

Recruiting By Stealth (HOT 50 profile)

Bnotions’ president, Alkarim Nasser; photograph by Derek Shapton; location courtesy of CeC, Mississauga, Ont.

How a fortunate accident led Alkarim Nasser to an innovative way to recruit hard-to-find skilled employees—and build one of Canada's Top New Growth Companies

The Spoils of Toil (HOT 50 profile)

Magnet Forensics' founder, Jad Saliba; photograph by Derek Shapton; location courtesy of University of Waterloo Library

How the founder of one HOT 50 firm used feedback from fellow digital forensics experts to develop the software police need to make arrests

PROFIT HOT 50 Ranking

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The PROFIT HOT 50 is the definitive ranking of Canada’s Top New Growth Companies, ranked by two-year revenue growth

Discipline 5—Guaranteeing ‘Wow’ Service Every Time

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John MacInnes saw his opportunity for a competitive advantage in offering a level of customer service foreign to the software sector

RIM’s Retail Reductions

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The Waterloo Ont. tech company is reportedly about to shut down its North American retail locations and slash 3,000 jobs

Ottawa’s Covert War on SR&ED

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Changes to the federal government's administration of the crucial SR&ED rebate program threaten Canadian innovation—and will persuade more of our entrepreneurs to move to the U.S.

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