
Entrepreneurial lessons: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke on his first sale
Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobi Lütke didn’t set out at first to build an e-commerce giant. A decade and a half ago, he was new

Entrepreneurial lessons: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke on his first sale
Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobi Lütke didn’t set out at first to build an e-commerce giant. A decade and a half ago, he was new

Shopify adding up to 500 jobs, second office in Waterloo
Ottawa’s e-commerce darling is expanding its presence elsewhere in Canada, announcing today that it plans to triple the size of its workforce in Waterloo. That

Reality vs the Hollywood version of one Ottawa founder’s story
XPR founder Joelle Parenteau recently took up blogging. In a pair of recent posts, she contrasted the glamorous, “Hollywood version” of her startup story with the

No filter: Shopify teams up with Instagram to expand merchants’ reach
Buried in the avalanche of news about Shopify’s shares plunging last week was a new agreement between the Ottawa e-commerce firm and one of the

Shopify stock falls for a second day after Ottawa firm’s business model challenged by short-seller
Shopify’s (TSX:SHOP) stock plunged for a second day before recovering most of Thursday’s losses, following a prominent short-seller’s claim that it’s running an overvalued get-rich-quick

Updated: Shopify’s shares plunge after report questions Ottawa company’s operations
Citron Research, an online stock commentary website whose reports have previously moved the direction of shares for the likes of Valeant and BlackBerry, claims the

Mastermind Toys ramps up expansion even as Toys ‘R’ Us flounders
Jon Levy’s favourite playthings as a Toronto child growing up in the 1960s and 1970s included Lego blocks and fort-building kits – classics that still

Troubled Toys ’R’ Us’ retail experience is outdated: Shopify CEO Lütke
Speaking to a crowd of aspiring merchants on Wednesday night, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke advised them not to let their customers’ retail experiences fall by

Shopify leveraging Apple’s new iOS to merge mobile and offline retail
Shopify timed its release with Apple’s annual product announcement event on Tuesday because the tech giant’s latest operating system includes a QR code scanner natively

Techopia Live: Ottawa startup Rewind.io saving online storefronts from data oblivion
It’s the week before Christmas, at the height of the holiday shopping rush. The owner of an SME logs onto his store to find it’s
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