For emerging start-ups in the Canadian ICT industry, there has never been a more challenging time to go to market than in 2009. Although talent pools grew exponentially due to layoffs throughout the industry, the necessary financing to hire teams and build successful business models was next to non-existent this year. The Top 25 Up and Comers highlighted on this year’s Branham300 were not only selected due to their level of innovation, creativity and promise, they were also chosen because of the progress they made in a period of time when the margin for error was extremely small.PDF version (1MB)
