Kelowna company hits Bay St.
Kelowna’s ProSmart Enterprises Inc. is now being publicly traded on an exchange. In a strategic move to access capital and broaden its service offering, ProSmart entered into a mergers and acquisitions transaction with the public company Sora Capital Inc. This allowed ProSmart to integrate with Sora’s wholly-owned subsidiary, RosterBot Inc., a leading sports team management platform. The two companies connected […]
Insights from a VAP client
It was Kathleen MacKinnon’s background in psychology and women and gender studies that helped her see something was missing. While working with youth and young adults, she realized parents needed more tools to help their kids’ emotional development and health. So she founded Nine Rising. MacKinnon believes there is no one-size-fits-all solution, so she created an app that […]
Kevin’s Konnections
There’s no place like home Litia Wilson is shaking things up with her new home cleaning business Peachy Clean. You know the old saying, “there’s no place like home” right? Litia believes it’s time for change, so the new saying will be, “there’s no place like a clean home.” Peachy Clean understands that a clean home is […]
Move over Netflix
While Netflix, Crackle and CraveTV compete for viewers of their Hollywood content, a Canadian platform for independent producers is launching a crowdfunding campaign. “notTV helps quality web creators get noticed. We are also focused on curating content that makes the world a better place,” says founder and CEO Travis Cross. “We want notTV to package stories […]
Insurance during fire season
Every year, when we have a lot of forest fires burning, a number of buyers get burned in their real estate deals. Most of the time getting insurance on your home is a rubber stamp. However, a lot of the time during fire season an insurance company will refuse to insure a home in the Okanagan-Shuswap […]
The experience economy
What ‘Empathy’ can do for your customer satisfaction In our previous four articles, we described the first four (of five) dimensions that form a customer’s experience: “Touchpoints,” “Pathways,” “Delivery,” and “Ecosystem.” This week, we will explore the fifth and final dimension: “Empathy,” which is the heart of customer experience. “Empathy” is the ability to understand and relate to […]
Microsoft picks local company
INhouse Video, a former Venture Acceleration Program graduate and current Accelerate Okanagan Patron, has been selected by Microsoft as one of only eight marketing vendors for the Microsoft Partner Network marketing program. Microsoft has more than 22,000 partner resellers in the US and 350,000 across the globe. These partners are trying to find new and innovative ways […]
Kevin’s Konnections
Good girl gone bad The Okanagan Tattoo Show begins this evening and will run for the entire weekend. 115 tattoo artists from across Canada and some from Mexico will all gather at the Kelowna Curling Club. There are six famous artists being featured, one of them being Damian Robertson from Calgary who is also raising funds and […]
Anomalies, or warning signs?
There are some interesting things going on in the real estate market that may or may not be cause for concern. The first phenomena is that sales are down in all three zones over the first two quarters of this year, compared to the first two last year. That seems somewhat illogical, since everything else points towards […]
Kevin’s Konnections
CrAsian anniversary Happy fourth season anniversary to CrAsian Food Truck owners Meiko and Courtney. You have had some amazing eats over the past couple years. The CrAsian story is a short one. It all began when Courtney wanted a change of pace and Meiko was on her way to Germany. Daydreams became plans. Plans became reality. Then a lot of hard work […]
