The Globe and Mail published a short piece on Tuesday about lessons learned in bootstrapping Waterloo’s successful entrepreneurial community.

…Mr. Siim surrounded himself with … Tech brains from the computer-mad University of Waterloo and business smarts from Wilfrid Laurier University … Unlike many Waterloo startups, Sandvine’s network intelligence products are not the direct result of research undertaken at the University of Waterloo. But Mr. Siim is convinced that the university, along with WLU and Conestoga College, lie at the heart of why people build companies here. He is a serial entrepreneur who has been in on the start of three companies, and will be involved in more. The educational institutions are like anchor tenants in a shopping mall of creativity, he says — they are magnets for new ideas and new ventures.

Read the article here.