IHEC Montréal is pleased to announce the creation of the Sales Institute, the first university-level centre in Canada in this field. The Institute will bring together professors and researchers from the School along with six partners from the private and co-operative sectors. Its goal is to create advanced expertise and foster a “sales culture” in Quebec and throughout Canada so as to achieve their full economic potential.
The Advancing Innovation Roundtable, an independent working group funded by TMX Group, today published a report on how to increase access to growth capital for Canadian innovation economy companies as they progress beyond the seed and start-up stages. Announced in October 2016, the 12-member Roundtable is a private sector, investor-led initiative bringing together leaders across Canada’s financial services industry, including finance, investment and capital formation.
A report released today by Startup Canada reveals how Canadian small business owners (SBOs) leverage technology to start, operate and scale their businesses. The first in a four-part research series, this report highlights the greatest barriers to digital adoption for these businesses; and includes opportunities to address these barriers and encourage greater digital adoption rates amongst SBOs.
New Brunswick startup WellTrack, a company that provides access to online therapy for students, has been accepted into 500 Startups’ 20th batch of companies.
Propel ICT, in partnership with Alongside and GrowthHackers.com, are hosting Amplify, the first-ever growth marketing event in Atlantic Canada. The conference will be held in Halifax on March 28th at Pier 21. Headliner Sean Ellis, CEO and founder of GrowthHackers, will be joined by growth marketing experts from Silicon Valley, NYC and Toronto.
On January 11th, in a short function held in the Conference Room on the 5th Floor of the Administration Building at IIT Madras, the “Gopalakrishanan Deshpande Centre” (GDC) was launched
Playwright, entrepreneur, businessman among 100 new appointments announced Dec. 30.