TiE’s landmark networking event scores in Ottawa

I spent a day and a half at the end of last week at a great event that lived at the intersection of entrepreneurship promotion and full-contact networking, and it all happened in Ottawa, a startup city that, unfairly, seems to play perennial second fiddle to other Canadian centres of startup activity.

The event was TiECon Canada, the first-ever Canadian iteration of the legendary networking conference sponsored by TiE, one of the largest associations of entrepreneurs and business people in the world, and it was a sold-out affair bringing together local, national and international entrepreneurs, investors and others. Featuring standing-room-only panels and boisterous corridor sessions, the conference also presented the first startup pitch competition Ottawa has seen in a few years and it heard from a number of keynote speakers, both successful entrepreneurs sharing their stories and investors providing advice on how to raise financing. read more…