From 2009-2014 StartupNorth had an index of Canadian emerging technology companies and service providers. We have removed this feature.
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Hockey sticks and consultants
I’m always giving consultants a hard time. It’s not that I dislike consultants. It’s not that I think that consulting is a bad business model. It’s that a consulting model is very difficult to get exponential growth. You…
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Weekend Reading
watch TED xToronto live now – http://bit.ly/XPdEZ powered by Toronto startup http://www.epresence.tv #
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Entrepreneurship 101 starts Sept 30, 2009
MaRS is continuing it’s Entrepreneurship 101 program for the 2009-2010. Entrepreneurship 101 is an introductory program aimed at providing the “nuts and bolts of building a business”. The program is a 16 week program aimed at providing the…
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Founders versus early employees
Not everyone can be a founder. We talk about the founders of startups and companies. We focus on the founders. The founders get press coverage. They get invited to speak at events. Sometimes they get rich. But for…
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Weekend Reading
NowPublic acquired for $20-25M by Examiner.com http://bit.ly/A7yXF # Canada Pension Plan Investment Board investing $300M in $1.9B private equity deal for Skype – http://bit.ly/DUURj # RT @markrmcqueen Industry Minister Tony Clement puts $50MM into Ontario's tech, biotech and…
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Hire a co-op!
Looking for ways to get new talent? Hire a co-op! The Ontario Government has a great program to help offset the costs. It’s interesting how all of these programs are located in and around Waterloo. This is one…
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Teaching Entrepreneurship
The first book I remember reading about starting a new tech venture was High-Tech Ventures: The Guide for Entrepreneurial Success. It is a book that was written about entrepreneurial ventures in the mid to late 1980s. Surprisingly much…
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GigPark.com acquired by CanPages
It’s hard not to like Pema and Noah. The two founders of GigPark have been two of the hardest working and (more importantly) most focused founders to have come out of Toronto in the last few years. We…
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Weekend Reading
Albert Lai, Farewell Bubbleshare – http://bit.ly/9gQ2P # FreshBooks featured in the Globe and Mail – http://tinyurl.com/qtfwl8 # Waterloo based RapidMind has been acquired by Intel http://www.rapidmind.net/company.php #
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Pitching fastballs
“Do you have some time for a coffee or beer to chat about my startup?” – Anonymous entrepreneur I’m happy to talk to entrepreneurs, learn about your startup and even help you out if I can. Since I…
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StartupDrinks – August 26, 2009
Updates ExtremeU Social is happening on August 26 from 5-7pm. Start out on the patio at Extreme Ventures with the ExtremeU companies and then head over to StartupDrinks at C’est What? Montreal RSVP at TechEntreprise. Happening at Brutopia.…
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Startup funding sources – HTX
My previous article on start-up funding sources covered Precarn. For the next article in this series, I will cover The Health Technology Exchange (HTX). I recently met with Norman Pyo, director of business development and investment to have…
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Weekend Reading
Tickets still available for HoHoTO's party on Aug. 18 in Toronto, which will raise money for the Daily Bread Food Bank – http://hohoto.ca/ # RT @ChiefApricot: Just got a notice from Bubbleshare.com photo sharing site – they are…
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Toronto Startup PagerDuty Launches Beta of their Web-based Alert Service
When a critical server crashes in most businesses, an alert email is sent out, often to a group of people, in the hopes that someone will look into it. But who should handle the problem? What if they…
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The sky is falling
“we have a structural problem and this means Canada’s ability to drive innovation will weaken and we will see the overall economy suffer.” – Gregory Smith, President of the CVCA The CVCA has released their Q2 2009 Venture…
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Weekend Reading
Ontario's Emerging Technology Fund – http://bit.ly/1gG2K http://bit.ly/1b5PCW http://bit.ly/19TYvz # TinEye on CNN – http://bit.ly/vx8Tw # RT @LearnHub: Job opening at LearnHub – Account Manager: http://bit.ly/fzQGN # RT @CVCACanada: VC Deals: General Fusion closes $22M from GrowthWorks, Braemar, Chrysalix,…
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Startup funding sources – Precarn
My previous article on start-up funding sources covered the National Angel Capital Organization. For the next article in this series, I will cover Precarn. I recently met with Gary Gudbranson, VP operations at Precarn. Craig: Thanks for taking…
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J2Play Acquired by Electronic Arts
That was fast! Earlier today Electronic Arts announced the acquisition of J2Play in their latest quarterly report. Congratulations to Rob and the entire J2Play team! Waterloo based J2Play was founded by Rob Balahura in 2006 to create the…
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Weekend Reading
RT @jeremywright: Today was my last official day as CEO of b5media. Crazy, eh? http://bit.ly/4BggCF # StartupDrinks Toronto: Tonight from 7-10pm at Pogue Mahones, 777 Bay St. http://bit.ly/3Qq7bd #
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Backbone Magazine’s Top 20 Web 2.0
Backbone Magazine announced their “PICK 20 round of Canada’s leading Web 2.0 pioneers” that includes 4 companies form our list of web startups to watch, it’s a great list of Canadian technology companies and startups. The List FreshBooks,…