• Search Engine Optimization
• Online Marketing
• Web sites for women in small business
• Content Management
• Online Branding

About Interdream Design:

InterDream Designs is a Web design company that specializes in designing attractive, functional Web sites for women in small business. InterDream Designs always delivers your Web site on schedule. At the same time, the company makes sure the integrity and quality of your Web site is never compromised. Nina understands what women in small business need. To service this, the company offers complete Web design services, including Web site design and development, Ecommerce web site design, Web site hosting and Search engine optimization. InterDream will help you transform your dream of owning a Web site or an ecommerce business into a reality.

About Nina:

Nina Menezes, owner of InterDream Designs, is an experienced Web site developer with a degree in web design from IIT Institute. Her main goal with each client is to develop a professional Web site that reflects their personality with the ultimate goal of having a Web site that generates more business consistently. Nina regularly attends workshops and seminars to keep pace with the industry and to ensure that she can offer her clients the very best in services.

Nina’s clients love to work with her. Why? Because she’s uncompromising about her job. She can develop a Web site in record time, and she stays with the project until she’s sure that the client is completely satisfied. Nina understands that developing a new Web site is often quite intimidating. She takes the time to explain to her clients, in simple language, what they need to know about their Web sites, smoothly guiding them through the process.

Interdream Guarantee:

InterDream Designs has built our reputation on giving our clients exactly what they need. That’s why we back all of our professional Web site design services with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. In the rare event that you are not completely satisfied with Interdream’s work, Interdream will continue to make revisions or offer new design options until you are thrilled with the outcome. In addition, Interdream guarantees your Web site will be completed in three weeks or it is absolutely FREE !

• Key Market Analysis
• Selling Technology
• Sales People Review
• Marketing Planning
• Sales Planning & Training

Professional Profile: 
Kevin Hood is the founder and President of Market Access Corporation.  He is described as an innovative, creative and results driven entrepreneur and has over twenty years experience working with new business ideas, new entrepreneurs, “turn-arounds”, start ups, joint ventures and major corporations.Client Companies have included IBM, CIBC, Northwestern Mutual Financial, Microsoft Skills 2000, Standard Products, Supply Chain Management, Philips Electronics, Maplesoft, Virtek, the Canadian Professional Sales Association and many start-ups.Recognized as an outstanding communicator and relationship builder, Kevin provides key input and support tools that help to increase the sales of
client organizations.

Consulting Services:

If you are not meeting your growth targets, consider some external advice to help with your marketing and sales strategy.Tap into over twenty years of experience working with start-ups, emerging and mid-size companies to help you build a focused marketing and sales strategy for your business.  

Key services:

• Key Market Analysis

• Marketing and Sales Review

• Sales People Review

• Marketing Planning

• Sales Planning

• Corporate/Commercial lawyer
• Securities Transactions, Financings, Mergers and Acquisitions
• Contract Design & Regulatory Issues
• Advanced Corporate Structuring
• Electricity Markets

Advised electricity consumers in Ontario on their energy requirements and various procurement strategies;

Provided ongoing corporate/commercial advice to each of the foregoing groups on wide variety of issues;

Advised on numerous pharmaceutical supply, licensing and development agreements as well as providing other ongoing advice on day to day issues specific to the pharmaceutical industry;

Advised on various corporate/commercial issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships in non-energy related transactions;

Advised equity investors on shareholder, partnership, development and joint venture agreements related to closely held corporations;

Advised in debt financings, syndications and secured transactions; and Advised on day to day corporate/commercial law issues including contracts, banking, financing, reorganizations, joint ventures, confidentiality agreements and trade practices.

Professional and Community Activities

•  Member, Ontario Energy Association Government Relations Committee;
•  Member, Ontario Bar Association;
•  Associate Member, American Bar Association, Business Law Section;
•  Speaker at various external and in-house seminars on corporate/commercial topics;
•  Contributes to and is involved in preparation and delivery of the BLG Energy Markets Bulletin;
•  Involved in community activity “BLG Reads to Kids” program, which entails reading to elementary age children at downtown public schools.

• New Business Start Ups
• Technology Companies
• Entrepreneurship
• Small Business Management

2. The pre-conditions that are likely to lead to nascent entrepreneurial  activity, particularly for technology enterprises. These include the nature of the (often academic) research efforts that are the precursors of inventions, as well as the incentives available to the researchers. For public policy reasons, we need to understand how ‘commercializability’ depends on the type of discipline, on the qualities of the researcher, and especially on the nature (curiosity-driven or targeted) of the research.

3. Longer term research questions include the extent to which successful technology companies utilize financial ‘bootstrapping’ techniques in their early stages (rather than the classical outside-investor approach), the bootstrapping methods used, and their impact on subsequent growth.
 

• New Business Start Ups
• Early Stage Financing
• Entrepreneurship
• Investing

Steve Farlow joined the School of Business & Economics in 2002 as the first Executive Director of the Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Laurier, Steve operated his own business, Superior Safety, for 12 years. Based in Waterloo, the company distributed occupational health and safety products from several branches across the country. Sales grew from $700,000 to over $25 million; he completed the sale of the company in 2002. He gained early career experience working for divisions of Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation and later, Derlan Industries. He feels strongly that the business discipline one obtains from the experience of a large company is so helpful to an entrepreneur building a new business.

Steve is an active investor / advisor to a number of early stage companies in the Waterloo area. He also serves on the boards of the Greater KW Chamber of Commerce, Communitech Technology Association, the KW YMCA, and Lutherwood.