An industry shift is happening amongst companies who build web and mobile applications. Development-focused software teams are evolving to include experience designers, and these designers can no longer work in isolation at the beginning of a project (during their phase of the project). Instead, they are required to be an integrated part of the team, working alongside [...]
#gpdwatteo Like a fine wine, some things just get better with age. We’re excited that this month heralds the return of a classic TWG event – good people drinking wine and talking to each other. It’s an early thing on Thursday, May 30th. Short and sweet. There will be tasting glasses of wine, as well [...]
An early start (too early, some might argue) and a hop-skip plane ride took TWG CEO and Founder Dom Bortolussi, and Scott Tadman, our peerless Chief of Research, to Montreal last week to visit FounderFuel’s newest recruits. It’s a TWG mini road trip! FounderFuel is a top tier mentor-driven accelerator program that provides $50K of seed capital to [...]
The Job Description: Web Developer, Toronto Summary of the Role Reporting to the Senior Tech Lead and Senior Project Manager of TWG, the Web Developer will work individually or with a team to plan, create and test well-structured, reusable code with a variety of environments using multiple platforms. The role requires a strong [...]
We host a stack of exciting events at TWG for Toronto’s amazing tech and entrepreneur communities. Events like Startup Stories: An Evening with ShopLocket, where we’ll be sitting down with the CEO of one of Canada’s rising tech superstars to find out about customer development, user acquisition and startup marketing. Being able to run events [...]
Join us for a heart to heart with one of Canada’s most exciting young startups. Named one of “Seven Canadian Tech Stars to Watch” by the Financial Post, CEO and Co-Founder Katherine Hague will be sharing her secret sauce for startup success. From product development and getting her product to market to customer acquisition and [...]
Governments are well aware that funding programs and other types of assistance can mean the difference between a growing economy and a shrinking one. As Canadians we have been hearing about the ‘brain drain’ since we were in elementary school, and the phenomenon of moving to the larger market south of the border happens as [...]
You know the future is mobile, but where do you start? How are apps are built, what resources should you use, and what do you look for in a great app? On Thursday night TWG Partner Chris Eben headed out to the Jumpwire Media Speaker Series: Thinking Mobile to give a short presentation to a [...]
Everlane is a new kind of retail experience, one that exists 100% online and bypasses all middlemen to create beautiful designer goods at truly disruptive prices. To gear up for their expansion into Canada, Everlane launched an innovative crowdfunding campaign that aimed to raise $100,000 in pre-orders and credits from Canadian consumers by March 21. [...]
Check out this great video from the folks at Samsung Developers for the inside scoop on what it’s like to attend an event at our office space and startup incubator at 425 Adelaide St. W. This video was shot at the Samsung Office Hours event that took place earlier this month – a collaboration between [...]