The restaurant industry is competitive and cutthroat, which means any advantage can prove meaningful. TouchBistro is in the business of giving restaurateurs an advantage. The Toronto-based company is an iPad point-of-sale and integrated payments solution built for restaurant people, by restaurant people. According to TouchBistro, every feature is “designed to meet the unique needs and fast pace […]
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Achievers Believes Culture is the Key to a Company’s Success
Just one-third of employees plan to stay at their jobs this year, a recent survey suggests. The alarming statistic hails from a new report published by Achievers, an employee voice and recognition solution designed to build cultures of performance. The year before, less than half of those surveyed made the same claim. While the numbers may be […]
What Happens When Shopify Employees Become Entrepreneurs
When it comes to insurance, this startup has you covered. Founded by Canadians Karn Saroya and Anand Dhillon, the San Francisco-based company operates in the insurance technology industry—modernizing it, in fact. Cover’s claim to fame is their aim: “we want to make insurance simpler in every way we can,” a statement on their website reads. […]
Toronto Startup Hiring Heroes At Upcoming Job Fair
A better way to collect data through forms might not sound very exciting to most—but to those interested, it matters a lot. Some of those interested are big companies. Which means, for a startup solving the problem, big customers. This is why FormHero, founded in 2015, was not discouraged by the prospect of launching a […]
Toronto Employment Survey Shows City’s Tech Sector Is Booming
The City of Toronto released it’s 2019 employment survey results today and everyone is talking about the tech sector. According to the report, a key feature of Toronto’s economy in 2019 is the growth of its technology sector which now accounts for 4% of ALL jobs in Toronto. “Building on decades of development in information […]
Juno College of Technology Offers Fast-Track to Life of Learning
Earlier this year, journalists laid off from Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post were heckled on social media. Harassers told them to “Learn to code.” It was a throwback to journalists telling newly unemployed coal miners to take up developer work when multiple coal plants were shutdown a few years ago. Whether anyone is right to […]
A Sensible Approach to Managing Those Pesky Receipts
Ask any freelancer or small business owner if they enjoy managing receipts. (They don’t.) While it is a necessary part of doing business, it can often prove painful. Unless one is using Sensibill, that is. The Toronto-based company aims to help freelancers and startups with the nitty gritty financial burdens that plague their otherwise free (or […]
Uberflip Helps Marketers Create Content—And Tell Them What’s Working, Too
Roughly half of business-to-business marketers feel their content is in ineffective, according to a recent report from Heinz Marketing and Uberflip. The report, titled The New Marketing Standard, found that 50% of B2B marketers don’t personalize their content, while 36% don’t have enough material to support their current marketing program. Moreover, 32% lack actionable data […]
League Lands Investment, Goes Hunting for Talent
In North America, more than 150 million employees access their healthcare through the company they work for. Toronto’s League has tapped into this market. The Canadian company earlier this year launched Health Benefits Experience, a data-driven platform designed to provide a single access hub for employees to engage with their health, lifestyle and benefit programs. […]
This Company Hired Someone Over Twitter Based on Starcraft Skill
The original vision of Shopify, the story goes, was a shop. Before the company adopted that name, it was called Snowdevil. And Snowdevil was an online store selling snowboards. That is a big leap to Shopify as a full-service e-commerce platform—especially when you consider the fact that the founders didn’t even initially plan to create […]