Garage Talk
Today marks another important milestone in Startup Garage 2012 history as our companies participated in their second of three "Mentor Panel Pitch Sessions". Teams had another oppurtunity to present a pitch to and engage a panel of mentors in discussion. Each company was given 7 minutes to...
Continue readingThere are countless reasons for someone to want to be an entrepreneur and start their own business. You make your own hours, only have to work with the people you want, wear whatever you want around your office (sometimes I don't even wear pants, much to the dismay of my co-workers), and most...
Continue readingOur Startup Garage companies kicked off a brand new week this morning with a very helpful training session on “Developing Winning Pitches for Business” given by John Fielding from the Ottawa Centres of Excellence. The session helped our companies learn the fundamentals of pitches, develop an “...
Continue readingIt’s been another busy morning for our Startup Garage companies. Today they were treated to a fantastic training session given by Andrea Gregoire from “Vision2Voice” on the fundamentals of good marketing. Andrea gave our companies some great information on the important elements of marketing,...
Continue readingThe month of June has brought many great things to our Startup Garage companies, including their first installment of grant money, their own office space, and access to many different seminars and training sessions. Everyone seems to be getting nicely settled in here at Invest Ottawa. However,...
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