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Weekend Reading
Toronto based TweetBucks launches tool to make money on twitter with URL shorteners – http://bit.ly/87ijW #
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Startup Funding Survey – Closing Friday
Thanks to all that have filled in the startup funding survey (see this article). The survey will be closing this Friday and I’ll post the results next week. So if you have not already filled it out and…
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Weekend Reading
RT @davidcrow: Interesting point about Teralys – 50% in Quebec; 25% in Canada; 25% anywhere in the galaxy http://tr.im/liTo #
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I Love Rewards raises $6.9M Series B
I Love Rewards, based in Toronto, has secured $6.9M in Series B funding from JLA Ventures, Laurence Capital, and GrandBanks Capital to fuel continued growth. This brings the total raised to $11.7M. The company, founded by Razor Suleman,…
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Weekend Reading
Club Penguin Founders miss target and lose $175M earnout http://bit.ly/pOXMM # Pitch at the upcoming Canadian Co-investment Summit: Applications due tonight at midnight! – http://bit.ly/JHRN7 #
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Hustle ventures
How Startups will save Canadian Venture Capital View more presentations from jevon. I’ve been thinking that we need to create a local incubator, and I’ve started to wonder where this fits in Jevon’s vision of saving VCs in…
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Startup funding – Why is there a gap?
David Crow’s post on incubators nicely summarized the startup support ecosystem situation in Toronto and in follow-on discussions some key areas have been identified on what is needed to better support entrepreneurs in Toronto: Available financing Access to…
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Weekend Reading
Quebec $700M fund of funds created, Teralys Capital, to be run by Jacques Bernier – http://bit.ly/16qX2V # CoolIT who recently raised $6M from @iNovia acquires Delphi Thermal Liquid Cooling IP and equipment – http://bit.ly/tEn0V #
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Weekend Reading
Waldii is the product that came out of Startup Weekend Halifax (http://www.halifaxweekend.com/ ). Really solid app: http://www.waldii.com/ # Fonolo now available for Google Android – http://www.shaiberger.com/?p=213 # voices.com featured by the globe and mail in an article on…
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Workbrain Children
Joey deVilla, Austin Hill, and I (here & here) have written about one of the best indicators of a strong startup community is the number of repeat entrepreneurs and the number of successful follow on/spinout companies. It’s the…
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Up-Start Competition 2009
Update from Tony Redpath at MaRS: “An important correction – the actual competition runs from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM on the 29th, with the class party starting at 5:00 PM and running to 7:00 PM. (12 pitches…
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Weekend Reading
RT @johnelton iNovia’s latest investment: Collective Media $20 million in Series B led by Accel Partners http://bit.ly/l78LV (corrected) # RT @stoweboyd:Open Enterprise 2009: Jeremiah Owyang Inteview http://bit.ly/gfTBi 53% of marketers increased social media investment #oe09 # RT @TechCrunch:Venture…
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Incubators, accelerators, and ignition
I am still curious about startup incubators. Mostly because I think that they do a great job focusing attention and driving buzz around the startup activities in a community. ReadWriteWeb has a great summary of seed fund incubators,…
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Weekend Reading
“Today’s market represents an outstanding time to cull the weak and under performing from our herds” – http://www.vcrants.com/?p=67 # Despite the meaningless paperwork, GrandBanks Capital is looking to invest in more Canadian tech companies – http://tinyurl.com/csv9xy # Don’t…
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Let the Sparks Fly
Earlier this week, Brightspark’s Mark Skapinker got “quoted saying some harsh things” in the Wall Street Journal. The gist of the post was that “the venture capital model was broken in Canada” and that “there are no significant…
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Weekend Reading
Being a VC just isn’t as fun as it used to be: http://tinyurl.com/d7t472 # LoyaltyMatch and PlanetEye partner up – http://tinyurl.com/cpv7sn # Flow Ventures’ announces an investment in Symtext: http://bit.ly/eXnAG Nice work guys! # RT @CVCACanada: your startup…
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ParkVu launch iTunes to Blackberry app
Jeff Fedor and Terry Goertz of ParkVu launched i2b service today. The service allows BlackBerry Bold, Curve and Storm users to remotely retrieve their music their iTunes libraries. i2b makes some assumptions about user behaviour that allows the…
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New Ventures BC Competition is now open
New Ventures BC is a competition for BC startups that has been running since 2003. The competition is open to new companies that have “not yet secured significant financing from “outside investors” (ie. investors other than friends, family,…
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Weekend Reading
RT @bmann: Beers with @bfeld on April 22nd in Vancouver, first 50 tickets are available now: http://tr.im/hK9r # CoolIT Systems, based in Calgary, secures a $6.2M follow on round led by iNovia Capital – http://tinyurl.com/dg2cdu # A great…
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OCE Elevator Pitch contest at Discovery 09
The Ontario Centres for Excellence is hosting an Elevator Pitch contest on May 12, 2009 at Discovery 09 event. First place prize is Cdn$5000 and second place is Cdn$2000. Not shabby for a 700 word entry. Step into…