Women in business
According to the Centre for Women’s Business Research, women own 40 percent of the private businesses in the US.
But–according to Astia, a nonprofit group that advises female entrepreneurs–women only create eight percent of venture-backed tech start-ups. What gives?
On April 21, 2010, the New York Times published an article examining the gap between male and female entrepreneurs in tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, New York, Austin and Boston.
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Leadership. Innovation. Excellence. These are qualities Canada’s leading technology awards program, the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ is looking for. If your company is in the hardware, software, telecommunications, or emerging technology sector(s) and demonstrates the above qualities, apply today to one of the program’s distinct award categories at www.fast50.ca. Applications for the 2010 program will be open through May 14, 2010.
Consumers turn to the Kindle
A new year, a new set of technology predictions from Deloitte. Last Wednesday, Deloitte unveiled their annual TMT (technology, media and telecommunications) predictions for 2010 at MaRS and looked back on how their 2009 predictions fared.
Most notable of their 2009 predictions were the rise of netbooks, social networks, smart phones and 3D in theatres and on TV (think Avatar and all the new 3D electronics from Sony and Samsung among others at CES 2010). They were also awfully close on their prediction that one in 10 newspapers in the US would die in 2009 – the actual statistic was one in 12.
This year, the theme was “good enough becomes better than perfect” – meaning that we still want our data anywhere and anytime, but we want to access it economically (and we don’t necessarily need the best device to do it).
So what does Deloitte think that 2010 has in store for technology? Here’s a sampling from their Top 10 Canadian TMT Predictions for 2010:
3D everywhere at CES 2010
This year I had the good fortune of being able to get out to the 2010 International CES, the world’s largest tradeshow for consumer technology. Set amidst the expansive Las Vegas Convention Center, some 20,000 new products are on show to a global audience of geeks, buyers, analysts and media luminaries. While one gets a little toxic immersing oneself in four days of meetings, conference sessions and tradeshow booths, this year did not disappoint. A lot of “stuff” got launched this year, from 3D technology, mobile DTV, tablets, netbooks, eReaders, health apps, connected TVs, embedded Internet technologies and new green technologies. Here’s some ramblings (and rants) that capture some of the technologies and trends that caught my attention.
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Build an Ontario Cleantech industry, cut urban carbon emissions by a half, and it won’t cost a dime. Sound like I’m selling Florida swamp-land? Hold your fire. This is the real deal.
All of these lessons come from my own project: The Planet Traveler hostel, at 357 College, where we’re building the greenest hotel in North America. That means: 75 per cent reduction in energy use from business as usual. And we’re doing it by economic argument alone (ie, we’re making money being green). We got no subsidies, no grants. If we can do it, anyone can.
