When you think of growth within a business, what do you think of? Often, we find ourselves reaching for accolades and successes as a measure of growth, but growth can be found in smaller but equally impactful steps. Education, connections, breakthroughs, and hard lessons all act as a form of growth within entrepreneurship that leads…
If you’ve listened to an entrepreneur talk about their business-building journey, you know it often starts with solving a problem they faced. When Apricotton co-founders, Chloe Beaudoin and Jessica Miao, started their capstone project as friends and project partners at Ivey Business School, their aligned vision for a shared problem sparked what is now a…
From left to right: Ian Haase, Brian Maxfield, Karen Chalmers, Christine Haas, Asha Parekh TechAlliance recently brought together four of Southwestern Ontario’s most impressive serial entrepreneurs, Christine Haas Co-Founder & President at Renix Inc., leaders in liquid purification; Ian Haase, Co-Founder of Motif Labs Ltd, innovators in cannabis extracts; Brian Maxfield, President of ODEA,…
Third annual Limitless awards to recognize inspiring and successful entrepreneurs and ventures As Southwestern Ontario continues to boom with innovation, with our home-base of London being named as one of North America’s top 10 emerging markets in tech, celebrating the individuals and ventures that consistently bring creativity, longevity, success, and resilience to our regional tech…
“The best way to bring the real world into the classroom is to make the real-world classroom” – Dr. Mark Weyers, Co-founder and CEO of BCI Innovation Labs. Entrepreneurship isn’t always a learned skill. It’s a personality trait and a drive to innovate driven by curiosity. It also involves strong business skills, something most students…
The path to entrepreneurship can be sticky – some choose to leave their jobs in search of something with more excitement, some foster ideas that they’ve had for years, and some just happen upon founder life through experiences or innovation. Entrepreneurship often starts with a couple of ideas and a lot of hard work, but…
When you think of building a business, the buzz words that often come to mind involve success, money, or recognition. For one London-local entrepreneur, and TechAlliance’s newest appointment to our esteemed Board of Directors, business is synonymous with creativity, passion, and people. Melissa McInerney, CEO and Chief Creative Officer of tbk, started her founder journey…
London is well known for being a student city. Each September, new Londoners join our communities and study at our world-renowned academic institutions, bringing innovation and entrepreneurship along with them. A group of roommates, and now co-founders of Cribify, were part of the bustling student community looking for a place to rent when they saw…
Having filed his #HardTech water treatment innovation with the US Patent Trademark Office in January of 2022 and patiently awaiting the year-long process of patenting, Aquatell’s founder and General Manager, Reid Thornley, sat down to chat with TechAlliance about his patenting experience; the process, the pains, and everything in between. Aquatell was built on entrepreneurial…
If you haven’t yet scheduled your appointment to have your snow tires removed, don’t fret– one local entrepreneur might have an easy solution for you. With life so busy and typical Canadian snow returning as soon as we’re all convinced it’s gone for the season, it’s hard to keep up with important seasonal appointments. However,…