Vancouver’s Dapper Labs is partnering with the celebrity-driven avatar tech company Genies to build a new marketplace on Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain. Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences in the real world. Getting their start with collecting and breeding digital at CryptoKitties—the world’s most successful blockchain game—the Vancouver studio also lets basketball […]
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How to Switch from Sitting to Standing at Work—And Why It Matters
We know that sitting for extended periods of time yields negative outcomes. You know that, right? A sedentary lifestyle, whether led by 9-to-5 desk jobs or laziness, can have major implications on weight management, cardiovascular health, and metabolic effectiveness, among other important areas of our wellbeing. We sit in our car, and on the train, […]
Canada, it’s Time We Address Our Soft Skills Deficit – Before It’s Too Late
The value of soft skills is undeniable. It’s time Canada realizes that. Overlooked and overshadowed, Canada’s fixation on hard skills training has turned soft skills into an afterthought. This is a problem and is leading to what many are calling a Soft Skills Deficit. I couldn’t agree more. Although our initial emphasis on hard skills […]
East Side Games Announces Partnership With Vancouver’s TinyRex Games
Vancouver’s East Side Games (ESG) has announced their 5th partnership, adding three new titles to their 2022 roster. The LEAF Mobile subsidiary has inked a partnership with Vancouver’s TinyRex Games for the global release of three mobile games on iOS and Android. TinyRex Games is a mobile games studio founded by Kenny Huang, Haig Sakouyan, Tim […]
Vancouver-born Thinkific Opens TSX With $1 Billion Valuation
Vancouver’s Thinkific virtually rang the opening bell at the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) today to celebrate the company’s first day of public trading. Listed under the ticker symbol “THNC”, Thinkific shares opened at $13.50 and have risen as high as $15.37 today giving Thinkific a market capitalization of $1.18 billion and making it the second […]
Unicorn Clio Valued At $2 Billion After New Funding Round
Eighteen months after raising USD $250 Million in the largest growth-stage transaction in Canadian history, Burnaby’s Clio is at it again. This morning Clio announced a new valuation of $2 billion after raising USD $110 million in its Series E. The funding round was led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, […]
Want To Build Better Products? Begin With Working Backwards
It’s difficult to develop products that truly deliver for the customer. Too often development teams huddle together to come up with ideas in a vacuum, and build what they believe are amazing products with incredible features that will tackle customer challenges or unmet needs—and then once their product or service is built, it misses the […]
Employers Now Need To Accommodate Employee Availability, Not The Other Way Around
The days of managers dictating where and when employees must show up for work are gone. The problem however, is that most people haven’t seen much of an improvement in how schedules are built and communicated beyond more complex spreadsheets or more cumbersome on premise solutions. When I came on board as the CEO of […]
Amazon Launches IP Accelerator to Help Small Businesses Protect Their Brands
To mark World Intellectual Property Day, Amazon has launched an IP Accelerator in Canada and a Vancouver law firm, Palmer IP, is among the 8 firms participating in the project. The IP Accelerator connects small and medium-sized businesses that sell in Amazon’s store with a network of trusted Canadian Intellectual Property (IP) law firms charging […]
Tips For SaaS SMB Companies Considering Permanently Moving Remote
Wishpond began experimenting with remote work arrangements a few years before the pandemic. This enabled a smooth transition once COVID-19 started to permanently close our downtown Vancouver office and give our employees the freedom to work remotely once the pandemic is over. Most businesses that were not experimenting or planning on a flexible work arrangement […]