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Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:13 PM

Recognizing Canadian Innovation – The Blue Sky Award

  Last year we launched the first ever Blue Sky Award.  It’s targeted at highlighting Canadian software innovation – great up-and-coming software companies doing great work.  SiteMasher, our winner last year is a great example of one of
Posted by Mark Relph | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:33 PM

An Interesting Fact About The “Blackberry Fund”

        Rick talks about the recent announcement of the fund here .  It’s a $150M fund to drive mobile software/technology innovation. It’s a great idea and I am proud to see it headquartered north of the border. I
Posted by Mark Relph | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:29 PM

Founders & Funders Toronto #2

We are sponsoring the second Founders & Funders event in Toronto.  The first one was a major success. “Founders & Funders is a private, invite only social event. Founders and Funders is dedicated: to helping Canadian entrepreneurs to
Posted by Mark Relph | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:22 PM

StartupIndex.ca

This is a GREAT idea.  As someone who once paid for this kind of service, I can tell you that the “professional” data services are expensive and I really never thought they provided value for the money.  Don’t get me wrong,
Posted by Mark Relph | 1 Comments
Friday, March 28, 2008 2:50 PM

PR: Microsoft Canada Announces Blue Sky Award

Inaugural award recognizes significant contributions made by the technology community MISSISSAUGA, ON – March 17, 2008 - Microsoft Canada Co. is pleased to announce the creation of an ISV Innovation Award – the Blue Sky Award – recognizing
Posted by Mark Relph | 3 Comments
Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:13 PM

More On Rick’s VC Events

Jevon at StartupNorth comments some more on the VC Forums Rick is running across the country. “ Rick Segal is going on tour . The idea? Get the message out there about what he, and other VCs, are looking for when they evaluate new opportunities,
Posted by Mark Relph | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:58 PM

Rick Segal’s VC Roundtables

My good friend and Canadian VC extraordinaire Rick Segal has started a set of interesting events called the “VC Roundtables”.  His idea – build a great environment for startups and entrepeneurs to meet with a VC and discuss how
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:18 PM

Interesting Article On Demand For Skilled ICT Staff: Financial Post

Check out this article - it really speaks to what we are seeing in the industry across the country.  It is just a coincidence that the "hot" jobs are .NET developers! Wanted: Techies with people skills Hard to find people with leadership
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:37 AM

Spotlight on IT Careers and Innovation

There is an really serious problem emerging in Canada - the future of IT as a career.  Within our group, we are really focused on this and we are beginning to tailor our activities with the Canadian Technical Communities around the theme of building
Posted by Mark Relph | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:36 PM

Flowfinity <HEART> .NET 3.0

Just heard from my good friend Dmitry @ Flowfinity in Vancouver ( www.flowfinity.com ) - a very neat Canadian ISV that does some innovation mobile work -> including .NET to Blackberry integration. "Flowfinity Wireless Inc., a leading provider of adaptable
Posted by Mark Relph | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:15 AM

Today We Open The Innovation Centre @ Waterloo!

I am really excited today because I am heading down to Waterloo to open the first Microsoft Innovation Centre in Canada. Our good friends at Infusion Angels teamed up with us on this one. The Infusion Angels Innovation Centre is located in the very cool
Posted by Mark Relph | 1 Comments
Friday, November 24, 2006 12:22 PM

MSDN Canada Code Awards

Who’s doing the best development in Canada? Submit your nomination now in for the very first MSDN Code Awards The MSDN Code Awards are your opportunity to tell Canada who you think is doing the best development work in Canada. Who has created the most
Posted by Mark Relph | 0 Comments
Friday, October 27, 2006 10:05 AM

More X06 Soapbox Videos

Check out the video from our co-op: Video: X06 Toronto There is also a one of the media clips from the big day featuring a good chat about XNA: Video: XNA 60 Media Coverage
Posted by Mark Relph | 2 Comments
Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:36 PM

Canadian Developers @ X06 in Toronto

The team and I had a chance to spend the day talking about XNA at X06 - the Xbox team's yearly pre-holiday press extravaganza. We were showing off XNA Game Studio Express in particular. It's going to do for games what Soapbox is doing for video. Think
Posted by Mark Relph | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:46 PM

My Slides From The Ottawa Venture Summit

I have had a lot of requests for my slides. I have created a OneNote file containing the slides. http://www.markrelph.com/storage/ottawaslides.zip Why OneNote you ask? Well, a couple of reasons…. It's a kick ass way to take and share notes. Second, I
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