Category: Innovation

Innovation at it's finest! Love it ==> Indoor skis News fax Piano for sick people Bumper to pick up pedestrians Hat-radio Sonar for blind people Vest heated with electricity Amphibious bicycle Transportable bridge in times of emergency Reading glasses to read while lying down Anti-puncture brush Stroller radio Gun camera Device to walk your dog while driving your car Roller skates for walking Boat-bike Ice skating shoe Portable sauna Cage for baby Laryngophone, placed against the throat to pick up voice vibrations directly without re

Calgary-based Trilogy Software announced today that it has raised $3.3M in private equity with funds from founders and local and North American private investors. Read the full press release. This is CEO Cameron Peters 3rd company. He co-created Cantax Software in the 1980’s (now part of CCH), and and co-founded GreenPoint Software and the ProFile Tax Application Suite in the 1990’s, (I had the pleasure to be a co-founder, as well). GreenPoint was acquired by Intuit in 2000, after which Cameron served as CTO for Intuit Canada and U.K.   $3.3M for a first raise for ...

Wicked awesome Startup Calgary Launch party last night. About 350 people filled the Roderick Mah Centre at Mount Royal. Great networking and buzz; it's a continued validation that our tech scene is both exploding in both quantity and quality. Festivities got under way around 5:00. Ninecompanies presented to a select crowd of about 50 V.I.P.'s (C100, A100 and Investors) : Opryx,Minigroup, Hubblr, Kudos, Vision Player, New Panda, Transithub, Community Point, and Core Connect. The three companies selected to pitch in front of the full crowd, who had filled the hall by about 7:30, wereOrpyx ...

Steve Jobs has said that if Apple were led by market research they would never have introduced the products they do - they design with a conviction that what they make is great. More generally, testing new tech is always risky, as people don't know what they're going to like. For apps, how do we get beyond what people “say they would like” and get to the things that will be big hits longer term? In other words, “sticky”. “Sticky” is a term used to describe apps that get used frequently, persist on handsets over time, get recommended to ...