So you’ve started a business and you’re growing your team. As a new business leader, you have the opportunity to create an awesome work culture from scratch. You know you don’t want to lead a herd of sheep. Instead, think about assembling a wolf pack.
Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky has pitched his smartwatch to dozens of investors. In the startup’s early years, he drove his bicycle up and down a Silicon Valley road famed for its concentration of venture capital firms to sell his vision.
Matt Rendall, a robotics entrepreneur who got his start at the University of Waterloo, is a finalist for the $100,000 Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Young Entrepreneur Award.
The grand prize winner will be selected by a public vote combined with a score from a national committee made up of top Canadian executives.
Victoria Stacey is graduating with a job as the digital media co-ordinator at a Toronto firm and as the founder and editor-in-chief of her own online magazine.
After running the most successful Kickstarter campaign to date, Pebble, a leading smartwatch provider, is gearing up for the fight of its life as other goliath technology companies try to lay claim to the smartwatch industry.
Velocity, a comprehensive program for entrepreneurs at the University of Waterloo, will host Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, on June 18 in the Humanties Theatre.
How do you go from being a new grad of an undergraduate engineering program - to studying for a PhD at Princeton University?
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Phosphorus is one of those nutrients that can be helpful or harmful, depending on its location. As a soil fertilizer it provides an essential nutrient for food crops but in our waterways it’s an unwelcome fertilizer providing the essential missing nutrient for toxic algae.
Popular Science, one of the most well-read science and tech publications in the world, has chosen an invention created at the University of Waterloo to be one of the Top 10 innovations for 2015.
Student experience will literally reach new heights in Robozone, part of the vision of the $70 million Educating the Engineer of the Future campaign launched by the Faculty of Engineering.
