Techopia

Techopia is focused on Ottawa’s technology sector. This multimedia project includes regular online news coverage, a video and audio podcast, private networking events and quarterly reports. OBJ also partners with EY to create an annual magazine called Techopia-EY Insights.

Opinion: Selling socks and underwear subscriptions

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Anyone who starts a company with the following tagline is bound to be different: “We give men (and the people who love them) more time

Opinion: Breakfast at Buck’s and other Silicon Valley stories

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William Draper III, The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Buck’s is one of those unique Silicon Valley institutions.

Opinion: Connecting with clients before foraging for funds

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I built my own Shopify store on the company’s platform in less than 10 minutes. When I was having a problem understanding their back-end customization

Opinion: Why we need a film publishing rights movement

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Standards such as, say, a common language, a common currency, a set of laws, dates, times, volumes and 18,000 other things covered by the International

Opinion: Why big companies often fail at innovation

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Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, the Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge, Harvard Business Review Press, 2010. Numerous surveys over the last several

Opinion: Whole lotta incubatin’ going on

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Scott Annan stands at attention at the front of Mercury Grove’s open-concept office space, holding up his hands for quiet. He’s perched on a milk

Opinion: Doing business in an institutional void

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Tarum Khanna and Krishnna G. Palepu:Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution, Harvard Business Press, 2010. According to a Western executive quoted in

Opinion: Turning tweets into treasure

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When Dave Hale started managing the Facebook page of a popular local business a few years ago, even he admitted he wasn’t quite sure what

Opinion: Managing your business the Indian way

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Nirmalya Kumar, with Pradipta K. Mohapatra and Suj Chandrasekhar,India’s Global Powerhouses: How They are Taking On the World, Harvard Business Press, 2009. Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh,

Opinion: Immigration decision shows fed ‘disconnect’

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It was a decision somewhat lost in the din of other federal government miscues this summer, such as Tony Clement’s recent and somewhat inexplicable long-form