Evolving Urban Landscapes: A Photograph Memoir
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Lazaridis Institute announces new partners in its ScaleUp program
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Wilfrid Laurier University’s Lazaridis Institute has announced the next 11 companies taking part in its collaborative ScaleUp program. This will be the seventh group of companies to benefit from ScaleUp, which will begin its activities later this month. ScaleUp is a program designed to help Canadian companies, specifically tech start-ups with a high potential for…
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Laurier Startup Expanding Business as it Prepares to Represent Canada at Enactus World Cup
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As October approaches, Wilfrid Laurier University’s team of young entrepreneurs gets ready to represent Canada at the Enactus World Cup. Enactus is a global organization created to encourage business-minded students who wish to have a positive impact on the world. The Enactus World Cup features student-led ventures from 34 countries competing against each other, judged…
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New Waterloo-based startup aims to make grocery shopping more efficient during COVID-19
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For people who spend too much time looking for the items they need while grocery shopping, a Waterloo region-based tech start-up claims to be a potential solution to this problem. With the onset of COVID-19, “Spot It” CEO Caleb Opersko saw an opportunity to utilize his company’s software in order to help people in need.…
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Lazaridis institute’s ScaleUp program helps take Canadian tech companies to global stage
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The Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises’ ScaleUp Program helps Canadian tech companies scale and compete globally. This is cultivated by contributing founders and their teams the professional assistance they need to survive the challenges of accomplishing global prosperity. “The program focuses on making the highest potential Canadian startups globally competitive,” Kim Morouney,…
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KW featured in recently published photographic memoir
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Architecture is often synonymous with far away places with large monuments. For older and more historic buildings, images of Rome and Paris come to mind. For more modern architecture, images of Tokyo and New York City may appear. What about Waterloo, Ontario? Our own backyard can provide interesting ideas and stories through the buildings that…
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New space in K-W for arts and startups
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A new combined space for the arts and startup communities in Kitchener-Waterloo has been provided by the City of Kitchener, located on the second floor of 44 Gaukel Street. The building formerly belonged to Everest College, before it went bankrupt, leaving the space vacant since February 2015. Currently the building is 90 per cent occupied,…
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