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Mayor Jim Watson Speaks at Artifex

National Gallery of Canada, June 20, 2012 Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Bonsoir, Mesdames et Messieurs. It is a pleasure for me to be here tonight. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the Professional Artists Gala and the inaugural “Artifex” event in support of Ottawa’s artistic entrepreneurs. J’aimerais saisir cette [...]

Exploriem.org Newsletter: June 12, 2012

Join Exploriem, all our sponsors and Artistic Entrepreneurs displaying their works at Artifex on June 20th 2012 at the National Gallery of Canada. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. There will be a silent auction. View items Tickets can be purchased: Here. This Year’s Spotlight Artists Spotlight Writer – Bruce M. Firestone The official Book Launch [...]

Open Letter to Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame

To: Michael Flanagan, Chair and Members of the Board of Directors From: Dr. Bruce M Firestone, Founder Dear Mike and Board of Directors of the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame: On behalf of myself, Cyril Leeder, Rod Bryden, Randy Sexton, my family and theirs, I wanted to express my profound gratitude that you saw it [...]

StoneShare Wins Gold at the Mayor’s Breakfast

OTTAWA (May 1, 2012) – The winners of the 2012 Exploriem Bootstrap Awards Fastest Growing company were announced at the Mayor’s Breakfast on April 27th at City Hall. From the five finalists StoneShare won first place, Renaissance Repair and Supply was awarded silver and YOUi Labs walked away with bronze. On accepting their award StoneShare [...]

The Arts

What is Beauty? We came to Vancouver a few days ago to celebrate early stage career Hnatyshyn Foundation Award winners at an event held at the VSO School of Music. The concert hall at the VSO (Vancouver Symphony Orchestra) is acoutistically and virbationally isolated not only from street traffic outside its downtown location but from [...]

IOE, Institute of Entrepreneurs

IOE5100, Advanced Business Models Exploriem.org’s Institute of Entrepreneurs presents IOE5100, Advanced Business Models for Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs and Artpreneurs, an MBA level course (For available dates and times as well as more information, please contact: Ms. Theresia Scholtes, tscholtes @ exploriem.org or @tclsholtes) Come study with Prof Bruce, a leader in designing and building business models [...]

How, Why and Whether to Write a Media Release

Understanding the simple arithmetic of how blogs, Twitter, FB, Digg, Reddit and YouTube are cratering mainstream media In case you missed it, I added Exploriem.org’s media release about 2012 Bootstrap Awards winners to this blog. See below. Writing media releases is tricky to do and these days many people are saying that they are less [...]

U of O Wes Nicol 2012 Business Plan Competition Winners

Ottawa (March 6, 2012) – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Student entrepreneurs Alex Smith and Chris Spoke take first prize for their business plan for Liaise, a web and mobile platform that hosts interactive seminars and video chats, for a fee The Telfer School of Management and Exploriem.org are pleased to announce the winners of the University [...]

Can You Create Successful TV Programming from a Home Base in Ottawa?

(Portions of this article originally appeared in Ottawa Business Journal, Jan. 23, 2012: http://www.obj.ca/Opinion/Bruce-Firestone-5444.) I recently interviewed screenwriter Sharon Buckingham best known as writer/producer and creative force behind Sticks & Stones, a movie for television for the CTV network. It won both the Shaw Rocket Prize for Best Canadian Family TV program and Best Foreign [...]

Need More Sales?

Then How about Nominating a Client for an Award… Or Finding Out What the Clients of your Clients Want Any sales organization worth its salt should be looking for ways to grow closer to their client base. I don’t care what anyone has told you about the reason why people actually buy stuff—I can tell [...]

Six Questions with MovingBoxes.ca’s Jamie Kingsbury

Name: Jamie Kingsbury Company: MovingBoxes.ca Award: Nominated for Fastest Growing Bootstrap Startup 1. In three sentences or less, what is your enterprise’s value proposition? Movingboxes.ca is an Ottawa based box & moving supplies company. A convenient, secure online shop for affordable, quality moving boxes and packing supplies delivered fast and free direct to your home [...]

Six Questions with Sok Joks’ Angella Goran

Name: Angella Goran Company: Sok Jok Bootstrap Award: Most Innovative Business Model 1. In three sentences or less, what is your enterprise’s value proposition? SokJok Inc uses sports socks as an apparel brand to create an opportunity for giving. We also use dynamic social media for marketing. All the socks are made from a specialized [...]