Building on MaRS' Entrepreneurship 101 lecture series, the Up-Start! Competition provides an opportunity for participants to compete for $15,000 for the best business pitch presentation. Participants are encouraged to apply the concepts they have learned through the Entrepreneurship 101 program and make a compelling case about why their business can be successful.

Enterprise Toronto will be taking a new direction with its workshops in 2015 - moving away from bi-weekly morning seminars and replacing them with a more structured training program focused on business planning, startup financials, and marketing and sales planning.

Unlike many of his peers in the emerging field of wearable technology, Robert Tu freely admits he doesn't know what the future will look like. In a sector where techies make grand statements like they're auditioning for a Ted Talk, Tu is an outlier.

If you thought art collectors were intimidating professors with white sofas and inherited wealth, you haven't met Amanda Dunn and Julia Wehkamp. "There is a whole new generation of collectors. Whether they're coming from emerging markets in the Middle East, Asia, or whether they're young professionals looking to invest," explains Wehkamp.