Ottawa Business Journal

Opinion: Select Start Studios grows exponentially by helping clients of clients

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I recently interviewed the tall, charismatic 30-year old Select Start Studios CEO Tariq Zaid at the company’s cool headquarters in an old stone building fronting

Opinion: Engineering grads pair beauty and smarts

Retail

What can a pair of male University of Waterloo engineering grads possibly know about the rapidly growing market for beauty products, where 98 per cent

Opinion: Rekindling the relevance of strategic planning

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Richard P. Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters. Crown Business, 2011. I have been teaching MBA courses in business strategy, as

Opinion: BTI rides wave of global networking demand

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BTI Systems may be the fastest-growing tech company flying under the radar of some in Ottawa. Californian Steve Waszak, who leads a global head count

Opinion: ‘Fenix’-like rise into open source profits

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Jennifer MacKinnon started Fenix Solutions in 2001 after the Montreal-based tech company she was working for decided to pull out of the Ottawa market. She

Opinion: Shareholder value theory and the NFL

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Roger Martin, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL. Harvard Business Review Press, May 2011. Shareholder value theory has

Opinion: Overcoming the quick-fix appeal of outsourcing

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Leslie P. Willcocks, Sara Cullen, and Andrew Craig, The Outsourcing Enterprise: From Cost Management to Collaborative Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. I am often asked to

Opinion: Selling socks and underwear subscriptions

Techopia

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