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Weekend Reading – January 17, 2009
In the News: Rypple in the Economist. Idee in Entertainment Weekly. And LoyaltyMatch on Fox. Well.ca founder Ali Asaria interviewed for Allentrepreneur. Warming your heart this Nuclear Winter: FreshBooks’ CEO on Distribution 2.0 Winners & Losers. Wellington Financial…
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Update #2: PWC SR&ED Seminar – Thursday, Jan 29
Those tickets went fast! By popular demand, the good folks at PWC are going to run an Afternoon SR&ED Seminar Thursday, January 29 as well. SR&ED is easily the largest tax credit program available to Canadian companies for…
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identi.ca gets funding, and a case of bad timing
I learned through GigaOM this morning that Montreal-based Identi.ca has taken a round of funding from Montreal Startup. I was, and remain, a big supporter of Identi.ca and first covered it back in July, 2008. It appears that…
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Pitch coaching – YowTRIP
Thanks to everybody who has submitted a pitch in response to my post on pitch coaching. As I mentioned in the post, I’ll post some of the pitches & my feedback to help people refine their pitches. I’ll…
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More Crowdsourced Capital – Colektivo readies for launch
Colektivo is a new debt-financing startup that appears to be attempting to bridge peer-to-peer loans with crowdsourced investing. A sort of Kiva for entreprenurs, bridging the concepts behind startups like CommunityLend and Vencorps. Startups are asked to fill…
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#hohoto – A Legend is Born
Occasionally you hear about an event and you know right away it is going to be a big deal. #hohoto was one of those things. I could not be more proud of everyone who put this together, over…
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Tech Capital doubles bets on Overlay.TV and PostRank
Overlay.TV and PostRank (formerly AideRSS) have both recently secured second rounds of funding from Tech Capital Partners, Overlay.TV raising $4.6M and PostRank raising a ‘significant round that will last well into 2010’. Also participating in Overlay.TV’s follow on…
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BumpTop Beta: first 100 to register get access
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CIX now accepting applications – Takes place March 3rd and 4th
The Canadian Innovation Exchange is taking place on March 3rd and 4th again this year in Toronto. The event appears to have been compressed mostly in to 1 day with some pre-event socials taking place on March 3rd.…
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BumpTop coming soon to a Mac near you…?
Earlier today MacRumours reported on the publication of dozens of Apple patent applications covering, among other things, a ‘Multi-Dimensional Desktop’ that looks strikingly similar to Toronto based BumpTop’s 3D Desktop. Who says cutting edge technology isn’t coming out…
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Kontagent is a big winner – $250,000 from the fbFund
Kontagent, who we wrote about back in July, is one of the winners of $250,000 from the fbFund. The company is based in San Francisco and Toronto, which has seen co-founder Albert Lai doing a lot of traveling.…
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Reminder: Office Holiday Party
There are a few geekmas parties going on this December, and they are selling out quickly. Both have been organized by members of the community, and look like they will be a blast. Montreal has CelebrateCamp on December…
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Pitch coaching – Reasonably Smart
Thanks to everybody who has submitted a pitch in response to my post on pitch coaching. As I mentioned in the post, I’ll post some of the pitches & my feedback to help people refine their pitches. I’ll…
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Xtreme Labs iPhone Speedtest makes Top Ten
Toronto based Xtreme Labs, the development arm of Extreme Venture Partners, has a hit on their hands. Their iPhone App ‘Speedtest’ has been deemed a top ten app in the free utilities category by Apple. Speedtest is offered…
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Weekend Reading – November 29, 2008
Jon Ehrlich, COO of Vancouver based Live Current Media, narrowly escaped from the Oberoi Hotel Terrorist Attack in Mumbai. After receiving a cease and desist letter for use of the trademark ‘dex’ for their new CRM service, Mercury…
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Montreal Start Up raises another $2M
Montreal Start Up announced today the closing of an additional $2,000,000 for its venture fund from the Solidarity Fund QFL, bringing total assets under management to $5,000,000. The Solidarity Fund QFL joins Investissement Québec, la Conférence Régional des…
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VeloCity Project Exhibition
Joey offers his summary of the University of Waterloo VeloCity Fall 2008 Project Exhibition. Velocity is a student residence, it is a dorm for 70 University of Waterloo students that encourages students to form teams and build projects…
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Weekend Reading – November 22, 2008
And the winner is… Well.ca! Who owns this thing? Starting a company? Read Rob Hyndman’s guide to pre-startup IP issues. Why we do it: the C word. Gaping Void StartupEmpire presentation. Bulletproof your idea… Part 1 + Part…
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StartupEmpire – Pitch coaching
Last week I was at the StartupEmpire conference. Thanks to Jevon, David, Rick and everybody else who helped in putting the conference together. It was a great demonstration of how the local tech community can come together to…
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Wish you were there… StartupEmpire Roundups
StartupEmpire rocked! Here are some roundups in case you couldn’t make it: Flow Ventures takeaways, BlogTO learned why now is a great time to start a tech company, Joey Devilla has excellent summaries of Don Dodge, Hugh MacLeod,…