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August 2015 CounterPath Entrepreneur Spotlight Q&A Corner Corporation Nestor Amaya, Peter McGann, Coveloz ScotiaMcLeod Nanometrics’ Seismic Monitoring Ericsson’s Live Events …and much more! “as if you were there” CONTENTS Tips from Ten Top Serial Entrepreneurs .............3 What’s New / What’s Next ...................................4 CounterPath Corporation .....................................6 Nanometrics’ Seismic Monitoring ........................ This month I’m thrilled to welcome two new companies 8 to the Kanata North Business Community. Wanted: School Supplies ......................................9 The first, Sanmina, didn’t have far to move. Previously located on Palladium Drive, Sanmina has just relocated Entrepreneur Spotlight: to their brand new company-owned building at Nestor Amaya, CoveLoz ..................................... 500 March Road. 10 Also new to the business community this month is Qlik. Ericsson: Live Events ........................................... 12 Headquartered in Pennsylvania, Qlik is just entering the Ottawa market. They’ve found the perfect home Community “Good Business” Tips ....................14 at 390 March Road. Qlik provides a platform-based approach to visual analytics that brings insights Q & A Corner: and clarity directly to the point of decision making. Peter McGann, ScotiaMcLeod ........................... Interested in working for Qlik? Act fast! See details 16 in the What’s New What’s Next article. Combined, these companies represent 500 new jobs in Kanata North. Their decision to locate in this business community demonstrates that once again Kanata North is the place for business. #SuccessHappensHere As always I hope you enjoy this issue of The Kanata Networker. 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BUY TICKETS & SEE DETAILS AT BROOKSTREET.COM/LUMIERE TEN TIPS FROM TEN SERIAL ENTREPRENEURS ONE SENTENCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADVICE ON STARTING AND RUNNING YOUR BUSINESS By Jonathan Lacoste Co-founder and COO, Jebbit. Originally published on Inc.com “IF YOU’VE GOT A GREAT IDEA, “IMPORTANT CHANGE IS NEVER IF YOU CAN IMPROVE PEOPLE’S GREETED WITH OPEN ARMS AND LIVES, JUST GO ON AND DO IT. ALWAYS REQUIRES DOGGED On the subject of entrepreneur- Richard Branson, founder, The Virgin PERSISTENCE.” ship, advice is plentiful. It seems as Group, which comprises more than 400 Steve Gottlieb, founder of Shindig, though there are three new books companies including transportation, a new video communications and out every week offering insights and entertainment and communications meeting platform as well as TVT advice about starting a business. operations. 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Interactive, an interdisciplinary tech- run your business. nology studio as well as Ora Ventures, “… THINK OF NEGATIVITY AS a Chicago startup accelerator and In an effort to make business advice NOISE—BELIEVE IN YOURSELF SafeStart, a surgical safety application. just a bit simpler, I found or asked AND WHAT YOU’RE DOING.” ten serial entrepreneurs for just one Tory Burch, founder of several fashion “FOCUS ON THE BIG PICTURE sentence of advice about starting and beauty companies including RATHER THAN THE PROBLEM AT a business. I asked serial entrepre- Tory Burch as well as the Tory Burch HAND.” neurs because they’ve done it over Foundation. Penelope Trunk, founded four and over again. Between these 10 startups. Her latest is Quistic, which people, they’ve started, by my count, “YOU SHOULD BE BUILDING A gives advice to others about starting more than 40 businesses—some very BUSINESS THAT IS UNIQUELY new companies. successfully. POSITIONED AROUND WHO YOU Here, then is one sentence of entre- ARE, WHO YOU KNOW, AND “THERE’S NO ONE WAY TO DO preneurship advice from 10 serial WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT.” IT, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT—NO entrepreneurs: Todd Connor, Founder of Flank 5 HEMMING AND HAWING AND Academy, a career development busi- DRAWING UP PLANS THAT WILL “TAKE AS MUCH FEEDBACK ness, and The Bunker, the nation’s first CHANGE ANYWAY—SEEK ALL FROM AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU national network of incubators for mili- THE ADVICE YOU CAN, COLLECT CAN ABOUT WHATEVER IDEA tary veterans. ALL OF THE INFORMATION YOU YOU HAVE. … SEEK CRITICAL NEED, BUT DO THAT WHILE YOU FEEDBACK.” “STAY FOCUSED AND BELIEVE ARE MAKING AND CREATING Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, the IN YOURSELF AND TRUST YOUR AND BUILDING YOUR COMPANY private space transportation company, OWN ABILITY AND JUDGMENT.” AND NOT BEFOREHAND.” and co-founder of PayPal and Tesla Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, investor Jill Salzman is growing The Founding Motors. and owner of the Dallas Mavericks Moms, an offline meetup and online basketball team who has founded or resources for mom entrepreneurs and helped launch dozens of companies. recently launched The Founding Kit, and was named a “mommy mogul” by CNNMoney. THE KANATA NETWORKER 3 WHAT’S NEW WHAT’S NEXT to ensure that we put out the right message. Please take our short UPCOMING EVENTS online survey for a chance to win one of two great prizes, including Please check out the event calendar LUMIÈRE ROUGE FUNDRAISING A Dinner-for-Two at the Brookstreet on our website for full details of GALA Hotel. All responses are anonymous events happening in Kanata. and confidential, and your support for this important initiative is invalu- SANMINA’S MOVE TO KANATA able to our business community and our awareness campaign. Start the survey! Brookstreet, in partnership with INNOVATION PILOT PROGRAM the Wesley Clover Foundation, is (IPP) pleased to present the 13th annual Created for entrepreneurs and Sanmina’s new operation will be Lumière Rouge Fundraising Gala existing firms within Ottawa and running 24/7 with three shifts. In on Wednesday, September 16, abroad. This year, Lumière will once Canada they have 540 employees 2015 The IPP is designed to partner again be supporting the Ottawa of which 400 are in Kanata. 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The Kanata North BIA will be process will be asked to complete a launching a digital awareness more thorough application. Selected campaign this fall to help raise projects are expected to commence the profile of our area and all the as early as September 2015. remarkable companies located here. We are asking for your help 4 THE KANATA NETWORKER TEDxKANATA 2016 FOR ENTREPRENEURS IN THE BROWN’S CHARITY CARNIVAL! ENTERPRISE SaaS SPACE Saturday, August 22, 10am–4pm L-SPARK is now accepting appli- Hosted by Brown’s Martial Arts, the cations for the Enterprise SaaS Brown’s Charity Carnival is open 2015 (LSA-2) Accelerator Program. to everyone. Admission is simply For more details visit the L-Spark a donation to the Kanata Food website and click on the “Apply Cupboard; whether it be cash or Now” button on top. They are also non-perishable food items. It is hitting the road for an #SaaSRoad- a great way to give back to the Nomination deadline August 30th show that includes several stops community and will be a fun event! along the way, including one at Do you know someone who would Invest Ottawa in early August.