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Generating renewable energy from a wood floor
How do you make a renewable, natural, oxygen-producing, CO2-storing material even more sustainable? Make it as close to zero-waste as possible. Wood waste left over after milling lumber already gets put to myriad valuable uses, from paper products to biomass fuel, and a new innovation will actually enable it to produce clean energy. Engineers…
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Marketing Using Social Media
The INS and OUTS of Using Social Media to Generate Revenue Lisa McKenzie, founder of McKenzie Moxie Media and Chief Bliss Instigator.talks with host Business Entrepreneur and Advisor Jacques Pilon and with ICN’s Entrepreneurial Interns Shaylene Johnson, Jennifer Harper and Esther Stewart about the INS and OUTS of using social media to launch product or service and generate both…
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Aboriginal Innovation – Fresh Produce
Sponsored by: AboriginalLink.ca The Metlakatla village is a progressive community, located 5km north of Prince Rupert, on an ancient site occupied for thousands of years by the Metlakatla people. They have recently built a “Green House”, a community initiatives supported financially by the Prince Rupert Port Authority. ICN host Bob Crane talks with Heather…
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The Money Side of a Custom Sewing Business
Generating sufficient revenues to earn a living wage from a home custom sewing business With the help of Ingrid Tiffe, a member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinty, ON, and an Eco-Fashion Designer, running her own company IsaTe’s Designs out of Seattle, WA; and with Metis-Entrepreneur Jacques Pilon , we are…
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The Entrepreneur – What it means
Sponsored by: Launch Lab Entrepreneurship its Risks and Rewards In this first segment of “The Entrepreneur”, a new series focused on the early stages of entrepreneurship with Metis born business man Jacques Pilon. Jacques, an entrepreneur for 25 years is President of Corporations and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Launch Lab Innovation Centre, located in Kingston, Ontario,…
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Blueprints for Success – Finding funding
Launching a Cosmetics Business (Funding) Getting funding is not an easy task, however if a person is truly determined and committed and he/she has a well thought out plan built on tested assumptions, a product with some sales, process to delivery , and measurable milestones, chances are with perseverance she will succeed in getting…
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Blueprints for Success – Entrepreneurial Intern: Jenn Harper
Launching a Cosmetics Business Sponsored by: Launch Lab Meet Jenn Harper, ICN’s Entrepreneurial Intern. She is the founder of the newly launched beauty product e-commerce company, Cheekbone Beauty. Jenn is also a mother of two, employed full time as a sales person for a major sea food wholesaler. In this interview she talks about…
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Blueprints for Success – Entrepreneurial Intern: Deb Green
< Meet ICN Entrepreneurial Intern Deborah Green, a proud Cree Woman from the Kawacatoose First Nation in Saskatchewan. Deborah became inspired to pursue her career in diversity, being an Indigenous woman experiencing the barriers to mainstream society in her life in areas such as equal opportunity employment, career development, society, and cultural differences. This motivated…
