WatTF? – Jim Murphy

Friday April 23rd noon-9pm at the Accelerator Centre in Waterloo we’re hosting the community for live streaming event coverage of the conference happening in San Francisco.
Check out the speaker schedule and Register for free now!
Startup Lessons Learned is the first event designed to unite those interested in what it takes to succeed in [...]

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Last week, included in the Canadian Federal Budget was an amendment to the tax code eliminating the burden on foreign investors to determine Canadian tax and file Canadian income tax returns when selling Canadian companies – The elimination of Section 116.
This is an incredibly positive step since it frees capital to flow to early stage [...]

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Thanks to the Waterloo Agile/Lean Peer2Peer group for inviting me to speak in December.  This presentation was intended to introduce the group to the concepts of LeanStartups and how it can put agile in context for start ups.
You often hear people focusing on the internal parts of agile.  Often these are the things the scrum [...]

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Just another day at the office. Out for lunch, walking to Mai-Thai if memory serves and what would you guess we see coming down King street in Waterloo?  The Google Steetview Car.  I’m sure plenty of folks were wondering what the heck this contraption was but not the dev team at PostRank, no sirree.  We [...]

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I’ve been reviewing the recent Prosperity Institute Report: Ontario in the Creative Age on initiating the conversation about moving the culture of commerce in Ontario from manufacturing centered to creative and innovation centered.  Its a pretty inspiring thought for a software guy who left Ontario for US innovation centers for over a decade.
Here are a [...]

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AideRSS is proud to host Michael Nielsen’s upcoming series of technology lectures aimed at understanding the how’s and why’s of Google’s technology infrastructure.  This is the massivly scaled platform that lets new applications reach global users, and lets googlers iterate and innovate without re-inventing too many new wheels.
Read about it on Michaels blog.

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