Welcome! And thanks for taking an interest in this project! I hope you learn as much from reading this report as I did preparing it. As I said at the outset, my aim is to produce a report that provides us all—the technology marketers and company leaders of the Waterloo Region, and perhaps beyond—with common understanding of shared issues, priorities, challenges, concerns, […]
Some fun news to share: the Waterloo Region Record featured an article about our recent research project. The article really focuses on the snippet of research I showed in Growing Pains: that tech companies in Kitchener, Cambridge, Waterloo, and the surrounding region, seem to hit a series of growth plateaus that slow their scaling. Terry (the article’s author, who covers technology-related stories […]
By combining a top-down study of publicly available company information with a bottom-up survey of technology marketers, we just might have conducted the most comprehensive study, ever, of the Waterloo Region tech scene. I’m excited to announce the release of The Waterloo Region Technology Marketing Spotlight: an examination of the Waterloo Region tech scene, with a particular focus on technology marketing. As I […]
While the region’s companies scale pretty much as expected up to a point – about 100 to 150 employees – they appear to run into a real problem crossing particular thresholds: at roughly the 200-, 250-, 500-, and 1000-employee marks. In preparing the Waterloo Region Technology Marketing Spotlight, I gathered a great deal of data. In crunching that data, I’ve come to suspect that Waterloo […]
“So often we don’t tell the stories about the places that we’re from. Everyone knows the legendary stories about how Apple started, and how HP started, and how Microsoft started, but they often don’t know the stories of companies in their own backyard, and the impact that they’ve had on the community.” On a recent snowy Friday, I had the pleasure of […]
At the very least, I hope to spur some productive discussions, but my ultimate goal is to help to advance our region’s tech marketing effectiveness, overall. Update: On February 12th, we released the Waterloo Region Technology Marketing Spotlight, which combined a top-down study of publicly available company information with a bottom-up survey of technology marketers. Click the link in the image to view the full report […]
“You can’t change the product, but you can change what you’re focusing on.” Hey there marketing fans, what time is it? That’s right, it’s Crommunity podcast time! Joining us this time around is Warren Pamukoff, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Magnet Forensics in Waterloo. Warren was Magnet’s first product marketing hire, so he really got to build the ‘program’ from the ground […]
I’m pleased to deliver the first episode of the new Crommunity Podcast, by Cromulent Marketing! We kick off this exciting series with none other than Matt Trushinski, the Director, Marketing at Miovision. Matt and I originally got together for a Q&A-style interview, which I intended to record and subsequently type up into a blog post, but a few minutes in we just decided […]