The Hot Sh!t List

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There is a lot of crazy young talent kicking around. We’ve seen that great talent that UW Velocity is producing with Ted Livingston(@ted_livingston) at Kik. There are the Christopher (@golda) and Michael (@michaelmontano) at BackType. There is the stupidly awesome team at Extreme Venture Partners (@avarma, @fnthawar, @sundeep).

I thought I’d throw together a quick list of designers, developers and entrepreneurs that are young, hot, kicking ass and taking names. There is an amazing amount of talent in Canada. And this is who I’m watching because they are hot sh!t.

Dan McGrady (@dmix, LinkedIn), CareLogger
Kaitlyn MacLachlan (LinkedIn), AskItOnline & Yellow Pages Group
Casper Wong (@wongcasper, LinkedIn), CommunityLend
Jennifer Fong-Adwent (@ednapiranha, LinkedIn), Rocketr
Josh Davey (@joshdavey, LinkedIn), BurstN & Chango
Alex Black (@waterlooalexjo, LinkedIn), SnapSort
Cody Fauser (@codyfauser, LinkedIn), Shopify
Vincent Cheung (@veenix, LinkedIn), ShapeCollage
Wes Bos (@wesbos, LinkedIn), DealPage
Michael Litt (@michaelrlitt, LinkedIn), Vidyard
James Stewart (@JamesStewartUXD, LinkedIn), PostRank & TribeHR
Julie Haché (@juliehache, LinkedIn), Shopify
Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana (@dups, LinkedIn), EmpireAvenue
Joseph Fung (@josephfung, LinkedIn), TribeHR
Andrew Peek (@drupeek, LinkedIn), Rocketr
Simon Law (@sfllaw, LinkedIn), TrustCentric
Eric Diep (@ediep, LinkedIn), A Thinking Ape
James Blair (@jamesblair, LinkedIn)
Edward Ocampo-Gooding (@edwardog, LinkedIn), Shopify
Satish Kanwar (@skanwar, LinkedIn), Jet Cooper
Jesse Miller (@jesse_miller, LinkedIn), Attachments.me
Josh Merchant (@joshmerchant, LinkedIn), Lymbix
Boris Chan (@borisc, LinkedIn), XtremeLabs
Tyler Galpin (@TylerGalpin, LinkedIn)

This list is incomplete

I am completely aware that this list is incomplete. But who are the tastemakers that are building the next generation of emerging technology companies that no one knows about in Canada. Help me find great talents that are under 40 (this is irrelevant, who are the entrepreneurs, designers and developers that are shaping things) and based in Canada.

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24 responses to “The Hot Sh!t List”

May 4, 2011

Joseph Fung

Love being included, but there are a couple of us on that list that are 30 right now, so the “under 30” moniker may not apply 🙂

~ Joseph

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1. May 4, 2011
  
  Dan Morel
  
  I think @waterlooalex has grandkids 😎
  
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  1. May 5, 2011
    
    davidcrow
    
    The age thing was really not meant to be their. Media is supposed to have a fascination with youth. It was really meant to be people that we haven’t seen before, i.e., new to me.
    
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May 4, 2011

KaitlynMcLachlan

So honored to have made this list! Thanks to David and everyone else both on and off the list who is doing such great work in the Toronto scene!

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May 5, 2011

Paul

The nomination form requires all fields to submit, which I don’t have, so here are my nominations:
Dave Wilkin of Redwood Strategic (http://www.redwoodstrategic.com/)
Eric Migicovsky of Allerta, Inc. (http://www.getinpulse.com/)
Ray Cao and Aditya Shah of Loose Button (http://www.loosebutton.com/)

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1. May 5, 2011
  
  davidcrow
  
  Hi Paul,
  
  The only “required” fields are Name (First & Last) plus Email address. Everything else is optional.
  
  Thanks for the suggestions.
  
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May 5, 2011

Rubsun Ho

We’ll have a few people to nominate once we check their ID’s. Hot Shit List aside, I’m always impressed by how David is always able to find the perfect image to accompany his posts…..

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1. May 5, 2011
  
  davidcrow
  
  I hope you visit because of the image and stay for the content and community.
  
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May 5, 2011

Jevon

Love to see all the new faces too!

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May 5, 2011

Sonia Ryan

I nominate Alkarim Nasser – CEO, Harth Labs

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May 5, 2011

Alain Wong

My nominations:

@gregisenberg with the upcoming launch of Wall Street Survivor. I’ve seen a preview, and it’s gonna be big! (http://wallstreetsurvivor.com/getv4/) or read the Next Montreal article (http://nextmontreal.com/wallstreetsurvivor/)

@danielharan is also doing exciting stuff with Recoset (http://recoset.com/) plus his dancing & DJ’ing skills are coming along nicely!

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May 5, 2011

Vincent Cheung

Thanks for the mention!

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May 5, 2011

avarma

thanks for the mention, we (@avarma, @fnthawar, @sundeep) are old 🙁 , we need the next generation. the list of 24 is amazing, let’s aim to make it 100!!

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1. May 5, 2011
  
  davidcrow
  
  Just wait until you have kids or a heart attack if you want to feel old.
  
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  1. May 6, 2011
    
    Mark Pavlidis
    
    or both
    
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    1. May 6, 2011
      
      davidcrow
      
      Having both is over-rated, skip the heart attack.
      
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      1. May 6, 2011
        
        Mark Pavlidis
        
        noted
      2. May 6, 2011
        
        davidcrow
        
        I actually heard you had sired many children, that is what the paternity tests that were mistakenly opened by our team at EVP said.
May 5, 2011

Michael Litt

Glad to be included in this list. Major Kudos to everyone else (and those who still need nomination)!

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May 13, 2011

Amanda Leone

I would like to nominate Ameet Shah – Managing Partner, Business Development at Five Mobile

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July 12, 2011

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July 28, 2011

» Under the Hood – Lymbix | StartupNorth

[…] continue the Under the Hood series with a Q&A with Lymbix CTO and Hot Sh!t List member Josh Merchant (@joshmerchant, LinkedIn). (Disclosure: I sit on the Board of Directors for Lymbix […]

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May 14, 2012

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June 18, 2012

» We can’t all be founders | StartupNorth

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