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Transform your Business Today by Coding Away. As an entrepreneur, the necessity of having programming/coding knowledge is vital.

Transform your Business Today by Coding Away

If this knowledge doesn’t seem relevant to your business now, you are missing out. A common misconception is that coding experience is only valuable for tech companies. Canadian Start-Ups reinventing ‘Global’ Pharma right here, right now. Canadian Start-Ups continue to change the game within the Big Pharma industry.

Canadian Start-Ups reinventing ‘Global’ Pharma right here, right now

Having a significant research arm in Canada, BlueRock Therapeutics was recently sold to Germany’s Bayer for a $1 billion valuation. This startup developed a new Parkison’s disease drug as well as an innovative approach to drug discovery. Although start-ups often receive backlash for selling their creations too quickly, it’s important to consider the opportunities that come from the sale. Canadian entrepreneurs adapted to the current pharmaceutical landscape, profiting greatly from selling in house innovations. With Big Pharma now doing less in-house R&D, start-ups are taking advantage of these market spaces. Export Medical Devices & Take Advantage of International Medical Markets. As Canada heavily invests in our healthcare delivery and industry, its life science sector is gaining more traction due to its innovative and entrepreneurial nature.

Export Medical Devices & Take Advantage of International Medical Markets

We know that our economy greatly relies on innovation and research for business sustainability. This ensures a spot for anyone with bold ideas and strategic frameworks to transform ideas into reality. If your company creates products that can be used in mitigation, treatment, diagnosis or prevention of a disease or abnormal physical conditions, you are a part of the medical device industry. Examples of medical devices include pacemakers, pacemakers, artificial heart valves, hip implants, synthetic skin, medical laboratory diagnostic instruments, test kits for diagnosis and contraceptive devices.

Related: Everything you need to know about CanExport Funding 2020 Globally, there is no single large firm controlling the medical device sector. In 2017, the key business segments of global medical device markets included: How to Become A Successful Young Business Leader in Canada. When we’re still young, we aspired of leading by example and of becoming a successful leader one day.

How to Become A Successful Young Business Leader in Canada

But only some of us succeed in fulfilling this dream. What sets the successful business leaders apart from the others? Canada-US Trade Wars: What does it mean for Canadian Businesses. Program Overview The trade war between Canada and the United States could raise the profile of some domestic industries, but Canadian retailers say that reality hangs on how long the cross-border tiff continues and if consumer attitudes on made-in-America goods shift.

Canada-US Trade Wars: What does it mean for Canadian Businesses

Canada’s dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs targeting $16.6 billion in American imports came into effect July 1st — after the federal government gave the White House a month to rescind its 25 percent tariff on Canadian steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports. Business Impacts & Government Action The Canadian government plans to provide as much as $2 billion in assistance for affected workers, including plans to expand a work-sharing program, increasing funding to the provinces and territories to increase the capacity of the job and training programs available to workers affected and providing liquidity support to affected businesses.

Learn about hiring and training grants. How to Encourage Employees in a Tech Startup Company to Innovate. North American Company Secures Millions in Financing. Just recently, VanillaSoft Inc. received $4 million in equity and debt financing from different sources of funding.

North American Company Secures Millions in Financing

VanillaSoft is a sales engagement platform that supports clients in achieving better sales accountability, increased productivity and higher contact rates. Essentially, they aim to optimize the sales and time of a company through software solutions by focusing on different facets of digital technology, such as CRM. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is an approach to client interactions using data analysis on customer retention and relationships in order to increase efficiency and promote sales growth. Related: SRED Funding for Innovation Companies The purpose of CRM systems is to ultimately streamline processes and improve the profitability of companies, which shares similarities to VanillaSoft’s vision of empowering their clients. North American Company Secures Millions in Financing. Expanding the Cannabis Industry Through Big Data. Regarding the recent legalization of cannabis in Canada, the country has become somewhat of a test patient in which the rest of the world is carefully analyzing.

Expanding the Cannabis Industry Through Big Data

People want to look at the hard facts rather than subjective information, and Canada has provided, through experience, the best processes and lessons learned. With the cannabis industry continuing to grow and evolve, the absence of big data can significantly impact consumers, distributors, manufacturers, and so much more. Although there are plentiful amounts of anecdotal data regarding cannabis, the industry must seek standardization in order to achieve both data integrity and reliability. For companies looking to adapt and change in accordance with the trends within their industry, EVAMAX can assist you in identifying the benefits your business is potentially eligible for. Related: High but Not Dry: This Canadian Province is Taking the Cannabis Industry by Storm Related: Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP)

Going International: Tips on Expanding Your Business Globally. Uber Might Fetch Your Groceries in Canada Soon. As you know Uber Eats is becoming very popular across Canada right now.

Uber Might Fetch Your Groceries in Canada Soon

Southwestern Ontario Development Fund (SWODF) The Southwestern Ontario Development Fund (SWODF) provides funding to businesses, municipalities and not-for-profit organizations for economic development in southwestern Ontario.

Southwestern Ontario Development Fund (SWODF)

This program supports projects that create jobs, encourage innovation, collaboration and cluster development as well as attract private sector investment. Canada Is Seeing A Big Spike In Summer Jobs, According To Indeed. Summer job season is heating up, and demand for positions and employees to fill them are both on the rise, new data shows.

Canada Is Seeing A Big Spike In Summer Jobs, According To Indeed

According to a report from job site Indeed.com, summer job posts as a share of total postings are up 15 per cent from the year before as of May, on top of a 23 per cent jump from the previous year. Searches for summer jobs as a share of total job searches are also up 10 per cent. Watch: Now's the time for teens to apply for summer jobs, experts say.

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