The Startup Kids free screening Jan. 17 at Mohawk College

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:49:57 -0500

On Thursday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. in the McIntyre Performing Arts Centre at Mohawk College, kitestring creative branding studio, Innovation Factory, Fullerton Media, and Mohawk will present a free screening of The Startup Kids.

The screening is open to all established and aspiring entrepreneurs in the Greater Hamilton Area.

The Startup Kids is a documentary about young web entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe. Founders of Vimeo, SoundCloud, Kiip, InDinero, Dropbox, Foodspotting and many others talk about how they started their company and their lives as an entrepreneur.

The movie is made by two Icelandic entrepreneurs, Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir, who founded their first company shortly after the economic collapse of Iceland and wanted to motivate other young people to become entrepreneurs.

Mohawk grad and successful entrepreneur featured in Management Today Magazine

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:35:41 -0500

Management Today Magazine has this story about Mohawk College graduate and entrepreneur Ryan Barichello, President of LinxSmart, a very successful Toronto-based web design and management company. Ryan started LinxSmart in his parent's basement five years ago. Today LinxSmart employs a team of nine developers, designers and account managers serving more than 250 clients. LinxSmart offers clients website design and management, mobile web design, web hosting and search engine marketing. Ryan graduated from the two-year eBusiness program and the two-year Web Applications program. He was also nominated for an Entrepreneur Award for last year's Alumni of Distinction Awards.

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The Startup Kids free screening Jan. 17 at Mohawk College

Mohawk grad and successful entrepreneur featured in Management Today Magazine