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Hiring Globally: Why You Might Need To Rethink Your Recruiting Strategy

Community • 4 min read

To grow our ecosystem, we can’t continue exchanging the same people from one company to the next. We need to tap into a new, global talent pool and incorporate a diversity of experience, perspective and ways of thinking from outside our ecosystem. ...

Erica MacDonald
Senior Recruiter
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The Hard Thing About… Hiring Product Managers

Our Craft • 5 min read

At TWG, we’ve been hiring product managers for over six years now and we have learned a lot in the process. ...

Oz Nazilli
Director of Product

Advocacy over Apathy in Product Design

Our Craft • 4 min read

Speaking up, not shutting up. TWG's Jas Der on fighting for inclusive product design. ...

Jas Der
Delivery Manager

ProptechTO launches at TWG

Community • 3 min read

ProptechTO organizes an impressive kickoff with major players in Toronto's red-hot property tech scene ...

Richard Switzer
Senior Strategist

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TWG and Mixpanel NYC Breakfast

From New York • 2 min read

Product analytics, unlike the basic marketing analytics most of us are familiar with, are designed to deliver insig ...

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Looking Forward: Building a New Payments Network

Videos • 2:27 min

For startup founders like Jon Lister this lack of innovation is a huge opportunity. BlockEQ is a Toronto company with plans to build nothing less than a new global payment network ...

Looking Forward: Digital Identity is Everything

Videos • 2:55 min

Trusted digital identity will be essential to the next wave of growth for the online economy. Andre talks about their partnership with the big banks and their upcoming mobile identity app, VerifiedMe. ...

Growth Toronto & InnovationTO at TWG

Community • 3 min read

Kickstarting 2019 TWG Community Events ...

Taylor Jones
Community & Creative Content Lead

TWG Goes to SaaStr and C100

Community • 2 min read

TWG hits two conferences in California: the world's biggest SaaS gathering and C100's Growth Summit ...

Leslie McGill
VP Marketing

TWG and The Blockchain Society take Manhattan

Community • 3 min read

New York and Toronto discuss the applications of security tokens. ...

Danielle Smith
Director of Partnerships and Community

Spotify's Peter Sobot: Inside Discover Weekly

Videos • 11 min

Ever wondered how Spotify learns your musical tastes? Former TWG'er Peter Sobot was recently back in our studio to share his knowledge on the secret sauce behind Spotify's recommendation engine. ...

Sprint Zero™: Clarifying Your Product Before Ever Writing a Line of Code

Our Craft • 7 min read

Sprint Zero is TWG’s proprietary approach to early-stage product development. ...

Tom Walsham
VP of Product

Looking Forward: Investing in AI for Fintech

Videos • 2:34 min

Peggy Van de Plassche on why the intersection of fintech and artificial intelligence is the sweet spot for VC investment and offers some advice for startups in the finance space. ...

Looking Forward: Data-driven Credit Innovation

Videos • 1:43 min

Kevin Chan leverages his deep experience in data analytics to guide his team at Capital One through the evolution and modernization of credit payment products and digital experiences. ...

Looking Forward: What’s next for Debit?

Videos • 1:48 min

Leading the team developing mobile products at Interac, Oscar Roque looks beyond payments to digital identity and an integrated payment layer for a wide range of online services. ...

Looking Forward: The Future of Fintech

Videos • 1:43 min

Our Future of Fintech series introduces you to eight leaders in Canada’s fintech scene discussing what’s happening today and where we are headed tomorrow. ...

Looking Forward: A Legal Perspective on Blockchain

Videos • 2:39 min

One of the most respected lawyers in the industry, Senior Partner Ross McKee leads the blockchain and cryptocurrency practice at Blake's. ...

Looking Forward: Meet a Challenger Bank

Videos • 2:34 min

Daniel Eberhard explains how $85 in bank fees inspired him to take on the banking industry and how emerging Open Banking standards are creating opportunities for fintech startups and consumers alike. ...

Looking Forward: Crypto Compliance in a Global Economy

Videos • 2:17 min

Self-confessed 'compliance geek and AML ninja' Amber Scott provides some insight into how to manage the complexity of cryptocurrency regulation on a global scale. ...

Conversational Commerce: A Competitive Advantage for Smart Retailers

Our Craft • 5 min read

Move over chatbots. Conversational commerce fueled by AI is real and growing by leaps and bounds ...

Leslie McGill
VP Marketing

TWG Portfolio Company BlockEQ Acquired by Coinsquare

News • 2 min read

BlockEQ were just acquired by TWG client Coinsquare ...

TWG

CryptoCamp Conference Heats Up Crypto Winter

Events • 5 min read

It’s been a tough few months for crypto but there are good companies out there. ...

Richard Switzer
Senior Strategist

Connect the Bots: Healthy Conversation around AI in Health Care

Events • 3 min read

Watch: TWG's fourth AI event brings together some of the brightest minds in the healthcare space. ...

TWG

TWG portfolio company Bunch raises $5M CAD Seed Round

News • 1 min read

Congrats to Selcuk Atli and the team at Bunch for raising a $3.8 million ($5M CAD) seed round! ...

TWG

Winterlight Labs CEO Liam Kaufman added to TWG Connect the Bots panel

Events • 1 min read

Panelists announced for Connect the Bots, Nov. 29th ...

TWG

Five Things You Need To Do To Prepare Your Ecommerce Site For 2018 Holiday Sales

Our Craft • 7 min read

Are you ready for the influx of ecommerce shopping over Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the holidays? Simply having ...

Adrienne Marshall
Business Development Manager

Who Are You?: Digital Identity in a Transactional World

From New York • 6 min read

An interesting phenomenon is happening in Fintech. In fact, you could see it on the tradeshow floor at Money 2020 ...

Rob Kenedi
General Manager, TWG NYC

Investing in Millennials - Chris Eben & Jason Goldlist, GM Wealthsimple - Elevate FinTech

TWG Academy • 27 min read

Canadian ‘robo-investor for Millennials’ Weathsimple is known for building products that keep customers coming back ...

TWG

Mitigating Risk when Building Software for Financial Services Companies

Our Craft • 5 min read

Financial services companies’ core business isn’t technology disruption. Still, that hasn’t stopped ...

TWG

React Native: Ship faster and lower costs on your next mobile app

Our Craft • 2 min read

React Native has been growing in popularity for a while. It is backed by Facebook and is being used by leading team ...

JP Moya
Product Manager

The Future of Emerging Technology Investing - Elevate FinTech

TWG Academy • 23 min read

At last month’s Elevate conference, TWG’s Leslie McGill sat down with Coinsquare’s Chief Business Officer to ...

TWG

Customer Obsession: Building Products That Keep People Coming Back

Our Craft • 5 min read

If you build it they will come. That was certainly the case at Amplify last week, the product conference put on by  ...

Leslie McGill
VP Marketing

Fintech & the Future of Canadian Businesses - Paul Parisi, PayPal Canada - Elevate FinTech

TWG Academy • 18 min read

Hear how Paypal is helping Canadian small businesses succeed on a global scale in this talk from Elevate 2018 ...

TWG

Elevate 2018: That’s a wrap!

Our Craft • 4 min read

A decade ago if a prominent American visited Canada we would hang on their every word, hoping for a compliment on o ...

Richard Switzer
Senior Strategist

Back from the Future(ist) Conference

Our Craft • 6 min read

Regardless if you’re bullish or bearish on blockchain you’d have to agree it’s an interesting time for the technolo ...

Richard Switzer
Senior Strategist

TWG Engineering Education Tackles Deep Learning

Our Craft • 6 min read

In this blog post TWG senior Software Engineer, Ben Wendt, explains how personal growth and growing the deep ...

Ben Wendt
Senior Sofware Engineer

Building Voice Interfaces for Smart Speakers

Our Craft • 5 min read

For most consumers, voice interfaces are relatively new but they are ...

JP Moya
Product Manager

Key Takeaways from Startupfest 2018

Events • 6 min read

This year, eleven TWGers attended Startupfest in Montreal to share, learn, and ...

TWG

Things I Wish I Knew About Docker Before I Started Using It

Our Craft • 8 min read

In this blog post TWG software engineer Nicole Chung explains her impressions ...

Nicole Chung
Software Engineer

Jules Ehrhardt and The State of the Digital Nation

Our Craft • 3 min read

Sometimes an idea hits at just the right time. ...

Richard Switzer
Senior Strategist

An Executive Guide to Artificial Intelligence

Our Craft • 10 min read

Let’s start with a question. Does your company see artificial intelligence as a threat, an opportunity or a bit of ...

Richard Switzer
Senior Strategist

Making the Business Case for Building Accessible Apps

Our Craft • 2 min read

Driven by a belief in an inclusive society, AMI’s mission is to be a world leader in accessibility. ...

TWG

Tappers and Swipers: Interaction-based (IB) Personas for Designing Accessible Products

Our Craft • 2 min read

Accessible Media Inc (AMI), a non-profit broadcaster of described video and other accessible content, approached TW ...

TWG

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