An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Danny: We’ve got some role models, and we’re using them as poster children. For example, Stewart Butterfield created Flickr in Vancouver. Stewart is a great example of somebody who has built a company, sold it to the States, and ended up coming back to Vancouver and starting

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Roundtable Recap: February 10 – When Keywords Are Competitive

For this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we discussed an important topic that many entrepreneurs are facing. Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. Michelle Herbert

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February 10 Roundtable Recording

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is your take on security in the cloud? As part of delivering this enormous infrastructure to your clients, you obviously have to worry about data security. What is the data security strategy that you deploy for your cloud-based infrastructure?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What percentage of books today are being sold by Amazon and online retailers? PW: I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head, but I know that it more than tripled in a year in terms of our share. Well, we have a very small

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1Mby1M Deal Radar: Pontiflex, Brooklyn, New York

If you have ever clicked on a mobile ad by mistake, you’re not alone. According to a recent survey, almost half of mobile app users say they click or tap on mobile ads more often by mistake than on purpose, meaning that a lot of the effort gone into the ad was wasted. Pontiflex, which powers a

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Rolling Up Mystery Shopping: Market Force CEO Karl Maier (Part 7)

Sramana: How have you managed to bring together operations from each acquisition and roll them up into a single entity? Karl Maier: We have been very happy with the results we have achieved over the past two years by running our business in accordance with our strategy map. We have it on one sheet of

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An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You fund programs and events but you don’t directly invest in companies, right? Danny: Yes. Unfortunately, we’re not allowed to do that.