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Courting Advisors – A Guide for Founders
Editor’s Note: This article was written by Danny Robinson and Boris Mann. Danny is a founder of Perch and long-time entrepreneur who has built companies on both sides of the border. Boris Mann is a managing director at Full Stack,…
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Stop stressing about startup competitors
Some rights reserved by Dan T Townsend A couple weeks ago I tossed and turned for hours, unable to sleep because of a TechCrunch article announcing the launch of a potential competitor. This happens once every month or two, and…
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A Public Service Announcement
I keep seeing entrepreneurs that complain to me after the fact that they took an investment with bum terms. It comes in many different ways, usually something like, “here’s my cap table what do you think?” or “I…
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Early bird pricing for StartupFest
TL;DR Early bird pricing for tickets to International Startup Festival end on June 1, 2013. We can all gripe about why founders and startups should not attend events, and they should get down to figuring out if there…
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Wanted: Startups for a research study
Our friends at Microsoft are looking to Toronto as a hot bed of startup activity. Don’t take my work for it, the Startup Compass folks ranked Toronto number 8 on their Startup Genome report for startup activity. The study…
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What’s happening at Volta?
Things are in full swing at Volta in Halifax. We just had our opening party and announced our new in-house $50m venture fund. Here is what is coming up in the next few weeks: We have a new…
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AccelerateOTT – June 14, 2013
It’s almost time to shave off yer playoff beards. Summer time is upon us. And summer’s in Canada mean cottages and startup events. Our friends at the C100, who are continually helping to build the Maple Syrup Mafia…
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Ontario Startup Train Meetup – June 10, 2013
Update: The event date has changed to June 10, 2013. In partnership with Via Rail consider this your official invite to our Ontario Startup Train wine and cheese on June 10th at Union Station in Toronto. We hope to get all…
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GTA Tech Leaders Concert – May 30 2013 @ Sound Academy
Are you waiting impatiently for Dreamforce? Why Dreamforce? Where else could you have seen: Red Hot Chilli Peppers (2012), Metallica (2011), Stevie Wonder (2010), Black Crowes (2009), Foo Fighters (2008), Inxs (2007), Train (2006), etc. It’s an…
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Build launches in Atlantic Canada
Patrick Keefe is announcing his new fund today called Build Ventures, a $50m early and mid stage fund based in Halifax. The guy is a Harvard MBA, an Oxford grad, former Atlas Ventures principal, Boston Consulting Group executive…
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Hot Shit List 2013
It’s the time of the year where we either make you a hero or we make you hate me a little more. As stated in the previous comments, this could very well be The List of People That…
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Vanity Celebrations
[Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Brydon Gilliss Follow @brydon founded the shared office space ThreeFortyNine in Guelph where he plays with Startupify.Me, Ontario Startup Train and 20 Skaters. A serial entrepreneur and fervent community builder, he’s also busy organizing a…
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Hardware and Startups
[Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Gideon Hayden LinkedIn Follow @GideonHayden, associate at OMERS Ventures Follow @OMERSVentures and previously founder of Tradyo. Full disclosure: I work with Gideon at OMERS Venture and I have tracked his…
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Making the business case
I have spent a lot of time in Halifax in the past year. I have been out for HPX Digital and for 2 workshops with Toon Nagtegaal (LinkedIn). It has allowed me the privilege of hanging out with Atlantic…
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DemoCamp Halifax 3 – David Crow edition
Great news. Democamp is going back to its roots (it is happening at a bar this time) and Milan has lined up David Crow to speak. He will be in town because he is working with The Next…
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Bay Street & Natural Resources – FinTech in Toronto
TL;DR Toronto is a center of gravity for financial services. There aren’t a lot of financial technology startups in Toronto. There is a new Toronto FinTech Meetup. FIrst meeting is Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at the MaRS Commons (Suite 230,…
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Dog Yogurt or Why angel invest in Toronto
Some rights reserved by nhanusek [Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Chris Maeda LinkedIn Follow @xmaeda. Full disclosure, Chris as he mentions in the article, was an investor in Influitive, a company I co-founded. Chris is the CEO…
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The scarcest resource: successful companies
Some rights reserved by Michael Scheltgen I feel like I keep having the same two conversations: either about “the lack of venture funding in Canada” or “how we build a better startup ecosystem”. Often the conversations happen, one right after…