By Yasmin Ranade
Local charity organizations often operate on tight operating budgets and, as such, rarely have the resources to take advantage of digital solutions and top-tier technology talent. That’s why Capital One Canada is launching its first-ever Hackathon in Toronto from Friday, October 21 to Sunday, October 23, named Gift the Code.
By Yasmin Ranade
Shining a spotlight on the power of women entrepreneurship and how gender can influence entrepreneurial decision-making are co-authors of Feminine Capital, Barbara Orser and Catherine Elliott. Within their book, Orser and Elliott draw on four decades of research to posit how women are leveraging their skills and sensibilities as women to change our social and economic landscape, one business venture at a time.
By Yasmin Ranade
Dell recently announced findings of the 2016 Women Entrepreneur Cities Index (WE Cities), revealing the top 25 global DWEN 2016 Zcities fostering high potential women entrepreneurs (HPWE); the City of Toronto achieved an overall No. 6 ranking.
By Yasmin Ranade
Statistics Canada recently released findings+ from its 2014 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises. The findings are interesting, particularly those related to business owner characteristics by gender, age, experience and education.
By Yasmin Ranade
They have ideas. They have passion. They have business plans. They have an extraordinary work ethic. They are featured characters in popular Hollywood movies like Jennifer Lawrence’s role in Joy. But, where does the startup money come from?
By Yasmin Ranade
Yesterday marked the start of three weeks of business acceleration in Canada for 10 French startups, coordinated by Business France, the national agency supporting the international development of the French Economy. The first French Tech Tour 2016 networking event takes place in Toronto on Wednesday, June 8th at the DMZ: anyone can register to join
By Yasmin Ranade
In Canada, 41,000 children are reported missing every year, and the first hours a child is missing are by far the most critical.
That’s why the Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC) knew they needed the social media alerts from their Most Valuable Network™ (MVN) application to go out faster to Canadians to help recover missing children
By Yasmin Ranade
Fuelled by a passion to uniquely connect people to one and another and over time through memories, Ekko has created what it labels, “the world’s first digital time capsule.”