February 13, 2012, Ottawa ON – Invest Ottawa announced today they are currently accepting applications for its third cohort of high potential start-ups in Ottawa looking to launch their early-stage technology to the next level. The GrindSpaceXL program is a four-month, milestone-based program which combines a core curriculum plus tailored individual business development plans designed ...

Read the full story

Ottawa, ON – Oct. 24, 2012 – Ottawa needs to celebrate the dynamic risk-takers and innovators who are a key element in the shift to make Ottawa Canada’s number one city to start and grow a knowledge-based business. The city gets its opportunity to encourage and unleash even more entrepreneurs during next month’s Global Entrepreneurship ...

Read the full story

EMC news – An All Saints Catholic High School student is giving one-on-one swimming lessons this summer and learning how to manage her own business in the process. Heather Wilcocks-Gynn, 17, created Ridgeside Swimming after being named one of 14 Ottawa students selected to take part in the Summer Company Program, a province-wide project that ...

Read the full story

Tired of working for someone else? Twenty-one-year-old Justin Assaly suggests you start your own business. Assaly, a second-year student in international development at the University of Ottawa, is one of the 14 lucky Ottawa-area students selected to participate in Summer Company, a province-wide program that helps young entrepreneurs launch and manage successful businesses. The former ...

Read the full story

Stewart Impey is one of 14 Ottawa students who have created their own companies through a program for young entrepreneurs. Summer Company is an Ontario program delivered through Invest Ottawa and funded by the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation. “It made it easier to go forth and easier to implement,” said Impey, who considered ...

Read the full story

Style & the City: Modern Chic on August 9 Rosina M., is one of fifteen participants chosen out of 400 applications for the Ontario Summer Company Program spearheaded by the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation! As a self-professed fashionista, who in her own words “eat, breaths and sleeps fashion” clearly this is her calling. ...

Read the full story

Invest Ottawa’s Youth Entrepreneurship unit hosted the 7th Annual Youth Business Conference on April 25, 2012. Some 200 high school students leaned about being an entrepreneur. CBC Radio report Hallie Cotnam filed a six minute report. Listen now: http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?clipid=2227349988

Read the full story

By Kayla Redstone Budding entrepreneurs could begin moving into Centretown in December with the city’s first-ever business “incubator” scheduled to open at the beginning of the month, says a leading Ottawa business organization. The Ottawa Centre for Regional Innovation is moving its headquarters from the city’s west end to Little Italy, says CEO Bruce Lazenby. ...

Read the full story

JULY 22, 2011 BY JANET WILSON, OTTAWA CITIZEN Laura Langford designs functional yet elegant leather handbags from scratch, Janet Wilson writes. An old photograph, pretty scarf or the clean lines of contemporary furniture are just some of the things that inspire Laura Langford when she’s creating a fetching line of leather bags. The Ottawa designer, ...

Read the full story

JULY 19, 2011 BY JULIA JOHNSON, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Ontario program encourages youth to become their own bosses OTTAWA — Instead of picking up a typical high school student summer job like her friends, Naushin Jaffer, 16, decided to be her own boss and started an Indian food catering company. “I think it’s better because ...

Read the full story