{"id":571,"date":"2009-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-224\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:04","slug":"innovation-anthology-224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2009\/05\/12\/innovation-anthology-224\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #224:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 224.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nPets are great except when you have to travel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd it\u2019s not always easy finding a kennel to look after Fido or Fluffy at the last minute.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWell, that may soon change with the creation of <b>KennelSeek.com.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis internet based reservation system for pets is the invention of student entrepreneur <b>Gordon McKinley.  <\/b>And it\u2019s the winner of the <b>2009 TEC VenturePrize Business Plan Competition for Students.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nGORDON MCKINLEY:<\/b><em> Well the online market is a $100 billion dollar market in US and Canada.  So the growth is almost unlimited, really.  And then the petcare provider market is $3.5 billion a year, so yeah, the sky\u2019s the limit basically. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGordon McKinley is taking a Masters of Engineering degree at the University of Calgary.  Entering the Venture Prize competition helped him hone his business skills.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nGORDON MCKINLEY: <\/b><em> Well I got presentation training.  We had a boot camp and had lots of training doing that, and business plan training.  So yeah, without all that training, I definitely would not have won the competition.  <\/em>\n<\/p.\n\n\n<p>\nMcKinley says he will use the six thousand dollar prize to develop more features for his service, KennelSeek.com\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nI&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02009-05-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pets are great except when you have to travel.  And it\u2019s not always easy finding a kennel to look after Fido or Fluffy at the last minute.  Well, that may soon change with the creation of<b> KennelSeek.com.  <\/b>This internet based reservation system for pets is the invention of student entrepreneur <b>Gordon McKinley<\/b>, winner of the<em> 2009 TEC VenturePrize Business Plan Competition for Students.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information-technology","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/224vpgordon_McKinley.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}