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We’re so proud to be working with the 2016 CTA Innovation Entrepreneur Awards, Startup of the Year Award winner, RapidSOS. In helping to build the engineering team, we’re making our own contribution to solving one of the greatest problems facing our communities today: 9-1-1 and emergency-services technology.

After a 3 week hiatus from the TSR blog, the final instalment has arrived. I’ll preface it by saying that the story doesn’t end here. On the contrary, it’s another new beginning. As mentioned in the last entry, we’ve come to a point as a company where we must decide which road to take to […]

What does it mean to have success? Is it purely based on profits and losses? How about brand growth? And what about team development? I guess you could say we’ve been trying to determine the answer to that question since we got started. All we know at this point is that when we set goals, […]

We’re approaching present day life here at Synapse International. Only a few chapters remain. Possibly the most important ones of our short existence…. Seemingly out of nowhere, we came across a Series A funded startup in Houston, Texas, a city not well known for tech innovation, but rather for it’s deep roots in Big Oil.

We’d been very lucky to this point in our operation, where we were able to be completely successful without ever having to take on any clients in our own city. I mean Montreal is a great place to work and has a growing startup community, don’t get me wrong, but as recruiters, we have two […]

So, here we are. We made it to 2015. There were doubters, there were naysayers, there were those who didn’t believe. At times, we weren’t so sure we’d make it this far, either. But like I’ve been saying all along, hand work and perseverance have legitimate value in sales. The harder you push, the higher […]

Our second winter as recruiters was upon us. This time around, we had a plan. We weren’t hopeful, we were determined. We knew exactly the amount of effort it would take to produce the level of results we desired. We put in more hours, spoke to more people, sacrificed more nights and weekends than ever […]

The summer came, and Ali and I felt like we had it made in the shade. We couldn’t be happier with our progress as a startup and we got comfortable with the idea that as long as we stuck with our program, we’d have continued success, no matter what.

Finally, we had our first taste of entrepreneurial success. It wasn’t much, but it was enough to make us realize that we could actually do this. We could run with this idea just to see how far it could go. We stuck to our guns over the next few months, and the deals kept on […]

It’s late November, 2013. We were warned that the approaching holiday season was a dead period in recruitment as hiring managers (just like everyone else) tend to take elaborate vacations and leave everyone else involved in the hiring process in the dark. Nevertheless, we trudged on. Ripped through list after list, cold calling, emailing, doing […]