Mark your calendar
Find out about wage subsidies at the BioTalent Canada Workshop, February 24
Three weeks left to submit your business plan to win $150,000 in prizes. Deadline February 25
Pitch and connect at the TEC Connector, March 11
Get your tickets to celebrate Alberta's best entrepreneurs at the TEC VenturePrize Awards Luncheon April 15. Duncan Stewart will be the keynote speaker.
Innovation Vouchers - TEC Edmonton, your service provider.
Quick-to-use, quick-to-learn small business training
Check out The Business Link's Spring 2010 season of seminars and "brown bag" presentations.
Ask the Expert - The Business Link's Guest Advisor Program
Connect with business coaches, lawyers, accountants, and financial reps who volunteer time to discuss your business concerns.
Avi Friedman, housing guru to speak, March 11 Learn about the future of green housing from the expert.
TEC Edmonton is a joint venture between Edmonton Economic Development Corporation and the University of Alberta.
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Mission possible
In under a year after winning TEC VenturePrize, Jason Suriano, Norman Mendoza, and Ken Bautista, the co-creators of Seek Your Own Proof, have attracted $1 million in investment from Foundations Equity II LP and a partnership with the world's number one non-fiction media company, Discovery Communications.
Does it get any better than this? Mission possible.
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Local IT Company to Develop New Lost-and-Found System for Edmonton Transit
 Life of a startup is no easy path. Connecting to a ‘big’ customer can be difficult . . . enter TEC Edmonton. Working with the City of Edmonton and the IT community, a successful pilot came to fruition - a local startup wins a contract with the city and the city gains access to the latest in lost-and-found tracking technologies.
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Inhale, feel better As seen in
 Is it hard for you to swallow a pill? Do needles give you the heebie jeebies?
Then Warren Finlay, mechanical engineering professor in the Faculty of Engineering, may have the solution.
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TEC Success Stories
Find out how TEC Edmonton is making a difference.
 TEC VenturePrize boosts budding tech firm
Before ProExams decided to enter TEC VenturePrize in 2006, Chris LaBossiere and his business partner Don Riep were running their company as a hobby.
 Adding fuel to the fire creates a spin-off
At TEC Edmonton, our Market Analysts are the fuel and our Executives-in-Residence (EIRs) the fire. When the two team up with inventors, dynamic companies unfold.
 Oil on ice: a game changer
Each day, almost 100 oil wells are drilled in Alberta using a fracturing technique that really haven’t changed since Leduc #1 struck black gold in 1947.
 Hope for the dentist-phobic
If you’re like many people around the world, the mere sight of the dentist’s drill sends chills up your spine – not to mention that long needle used to freeze your mouth.
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