If you’re ambitious, daring, and always land on your feet – you could be a ninja. Maybe it’s time for you to work for a start-up!

As we mentioned earlier in an earlier post, Impact Connect is hosting Start-OP, an event where you can learn all about working at or starting a new company!

At Impact Start-OP, you will be given the chance to talk to and connect with research institutions, start-ups, and venture capitalists from the Kitchener-Waterloo region and Toronto, who will be able to share their experiences in entrepreneurship.  This is also a great chance to network with local businesses, so don’t forget your business cards!

DETAILS

Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Time: 5:30PM – 7:30PM

Location: Tatham Center Main Hall, University of Waterloo

Price: Free

Companies attending include:

• Allerta
• My IT Guy
• Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology
• NexJ Systems
• Desire2Learn Incorporated
• ThinkPanda
• Assetize Inc.
• FreshBooks
• SocialDeck

Everyone is invited to this event, so spread the word!  Registration is at startop.impact.org.

If you’re ambitious, daring, and always land on your feet – you could be a ninja. Maybe it’s time for you to work for a start-up!

Have you ever thought about working at, or starting your own new company? Come out to Start-OP, and find out what it takes!

The event aims to bring together start-ups, venture capitalists and research institutions from the Kitchener-Waterloo region to chat with University of Waterloo students and demystify the exciting and adventurous world of entrepreneurship. Students will get  to connect with some of the most successful Canadian-born companies and some newer up-and-coming companies. This program will emphasize entrepreneurship as a co-op option for students and give a chance to start-up companies in Waterloo to market their profile and name. Don’t forget your business cards!

• When: Wednesday March 24th, 2010 at 5:30pm to 7:30pm
• Where: Tatham Centre, University of Waterloo (200 University Ave. W.)
• Remember: The event is free and refreshments will be served!
  Companies and Keynote will be announced in the coming days so stay tuned!

Everyone is encouraged to come to this exciting event, so please register at: startop.impact.org!

The Impact social that Impact Connect held on February 2nd at the University of Waterloo was a huge success, leaving Waterloo students and Impact members alike to be motivated and excited!

The session was very successful, with over 50 Waterloo students in attendance. A number of  Impact members were also there to share their experiences of being part of Impact, as well as to outline Impact’s plans for the upcoming year.

At the end of the session, many students stuck around to network and mingle with the Impact members, and many expressed interest in becoming involved with Impact’s programs in 2010!

If you were unable to attend Tuesday’s Impact social but are still interested in becoming a part of Impact team, please feel free to contact laura.chelaru (at) impact.org.

To see more photos from the Impact Social, click here.

2008 Waterloo HackU winner Addy Cameron-Huff (in red shirt) is also the winner of the 2009 Yahoo HackU finals in New York City. Photo: Rasmus Lerdorf

As many already know, Impact Connect and Yahoo! had ran the Hack U competition at the University of Waterloo in both 2008 and 2009.  For those who don’t know, HackU is a week-long coding festival challenging the  brightest of the University of Waterloo’s programming community.  The HackU competition is held across Canada and the U.S. and challenges students to develop a web application that solves a problem in 24 hours or less.

In the 2008 HackU competition run by Impact Connect, Waterloo graduate Addy Cameron-Huff won with his application that tracks speeches made by Canadian politicians, allowing constituents to follow the progress of their MPs.

One year later, Cameron-Huff moved on to the HackU finals held in New York City, competing against teams from universities such as Berkeley, Cornell, and the University of Washington. Approximately 40 teams had just two minutes to present their hack.

In New York, Cameron-Huff blew away his competition with his application that sent out instant alerts about insider trades for various stocks.

With these key victories, Impact Connect is proud to have helped Mr. Cameron-Huff on his path to success.

EDIT:  Thanks to Addy Cameron-Huff for posting the link to his presentation!  You can watch it here.

If you are a student at the University of Waterloo, or happen to be passing by in town tomorrow on January 14th, you need to make sure to come and check out the Impact booth! We will be there to share our story, answer any questions you may have, and tell you more about how to join and get involved!

DETAILS

Date: Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Time: 9am – 4pm

Where: Great Hall, Student Life Centre @ University of Waterloo

Why: To meet our execs & chance to win some cool Impact Swag!

Make sure to follow us on @ImpactOrg and our Facebook Fan Page tomorrow as we will be periodically giving out prizes. We can’t wait to see you all there!

Cheers,

2010 Impact team

Join the VeloCity students today at the University of Waterloo for a showcase of their own business ideas they’ve been developing for the past term!

Location: Student Life Centre, University of Waterloo

Time: 11am – 4pm

More info: http://www.velocity.uwaterloo.ca

You can look forward to seeing an array of interesting ideas including the ones mentioned below:

Campus Perks - a free savings program for students helping companies provide discounts, giveaways, prizes and more to students from coast to coast
Delta Sites – a company that helps create and manage a professional website without any technical expertise
uniConnect – helping students connect and network with other co-op students.
Kik — a new and innovative digital music application to play, buy, share and organize music on BlackBerry smart phones
Allerta — a brand new consumer electronics design firm, focused solely on creating cutting edge mobile accessories that mesh perfectly with smartphones and a mobile lifestyle

This is a great networking event for all students, investors and curious minds to check out! This is an only one day event so make sure to drop by the Student Life Centre today!

Last week, Impact was featured in Imprint, the University of Waterloo’s official student newspaper, and in the University of Waterloo alumni newsletter.

Imprint covered the Global Innovation Tournament information session, in which Eva Yung, the chair of Impact Connect, spoke about the competition and presented past examples from previous years.  The GIT creates a different challenge every year, and this year’s challenge is to make saving money fun, while having as much influence as possible.  Click here to read the Imprint article.

The November 2009 issue of the University of Waterloo alumni newsletter features Impact as one of the organizations that were created by Waterloo students.  Click here to read the article.

In addition, The Record and CTV covered the AGFA Health competition that was hosted by Impact Connect at the University of Waterloo.  Check out the article in The Record here, and the CTV story here.

Impact is teaming up with The On Contact with an Entrepreneur event will take place on Tuesday November 17th at 7pm-9pm in DC 1302.  This event is a panel discussion hosted by Cg6 Inc. that educates and promotes to young professionals the different faces of entrepreneurship. Please come out and show your support!

Host: Cg6 Inc.
Date: November 17th, 2009 – Tuesday
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: University of Waterloo, Davis Centre Library, Room 1302

A total of 13 industry-experienced entrepreneurs – our guest speakers – will engage YOU, the audience with informative answers in an open mike format. YOU will have the opportunity to witness first-hand, the runnings of a business as an entrepreneur. The hardships and perks, the highs and the lows – all provided from real view points of our speakers. The format provides an added intrigue by allowing YOU to compare the commonalities and differences among true entrepreneurs.

Speakers include:

- Annette Borger – award winning publicist in professional development
- Johnson Chou – award winning media recognized multidisciplinary architect & designer
- Eleonore Goulet – media recognized translation broker
- Max Haroon – association founder of accredited Internet Professionals
- Laurent Ho – media supported social entrepreneur
- Joseph Khunaysir – founder of 77th fastest growing company in Canada
- Corinne Lor – life-changing success coach
- Adam McNeill & Maya Kenedy – young dynamic web media professionals
- Carol Moxam – one of Canada’s top 3 Certified Special Event Professionals
- Patrick Monize – founder of project management office for media and financial sector
- Sean Ramsay – industry recognized interactive media producer
- Vwodek Wojczynski – trilingual business coach

Join the Facebook event here!

RSVP for the event here!

The Impact Entrepreneurship Group is proud to present the Global Innovation Tournament (GIT), organized as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week with support from Stanford University and the Kauffman Foundation.

Join us tonight for our kick off event at University of Waterloo! There will be free food!

Date: Monday, November 2, 2009
Time: 7:00 – 9:00pm EST
Location: Student Life Centre, Multipurpose Room
Website: www.impact.org/git

The 2009 Global Innovation Tournament is a fast-paced international competition that will challenge student teams to solve a common, world problem in about eight days, creating as much value as possible.

In the past, teams solved problems involving common everyday objects. They created value from PostIt Notes, rubber bands, and water bottles. This year, it’s a global issue. Now what could it be?
 
The mystery problem will be revealed on November 4 and submissions will be due Nov 13!

Are you on Twitter? Follow us @ImpactOrg and join our online conversation by using the official hashtag: #IMPACTGIT in your tweets!

Join the Facebook event here!

Impact Connect is proud to present the second annual Yahoo!’s HackU competition kicking off today at the University of Waterloo and University of Toronto!

For event schedule, registration and general info: www.hacku.impact.org or check us out on Facebook.