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MaRS Phase II in the Deadpool
The MaRS Center is seeing the second phase of development go on hold. Phase II, which involved the development of a second tower on the west side of the property, has been cancelled, despite having been ahead of…
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Clutterme.com is for sale, on ebay
Clutterme.com a do-it-yourself website builder and domain purchasing site is for sale, on ebay. This isn’t the first startup to put themselves up on Ebay, Toronto based Tucows bought kiko.com in an ebay auction for almost $260,000 a…
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StartupEmpire: Thanks, that was fun.
Well, it’s over. StartupEmpire was, by most measures, a success. Almost 300 people in total come by to either the conference and/or the after party and we didn’t lose our shirts in the process. I would be lying…
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Tales of the ridiculous – PickupPal gets slapped
It has been well covered today, and I am guessing it is going to hit the mainstream press tomorrow. PickupPal, yet another carpooling site, seems to have been the straw that tickled the legal team at the bus…
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Congratulations to the 10 Winners of the StartupEmpire Contest
Thank you to everyone who submitted entries to the StartupEmpire giveaway. The quality of the writing and thinking was excellent and it was inspirational hearing so many people wanting to further their entrepreneurial careers. Our hats off to…
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Network after hours at StartupEmpire
Jevon nailed it. The most important part of any conference is in how you meet other people who are attending, and this is a great chance to get a head start on that. StartupEmpire sold out last Monday.…
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clustershot.com – a fair market for stock photography
ClusterShot.com was launched today by Charlottetown, PEI based Silverorange. The site is really pretty straightforward: Photographers post their photos, Clustershot handles reformatting them for display and handles the back-end payments and other headaches. If you are a professional…
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Weekend Reading – November 8, 2008
Make it easy for your customers. BTI Systems raised $15M from Export Development Canada and its existing investors: VenGrowth, BDC VC, GrowthWorks, Kodiak VP, Primaxis, Lucent VP, Summerhill VP, Wellington Financial and MMV Financial. FreshBooks integrated with Skydeck.…
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Want to meet fellow StartupEmpire attendees?
We have teamed up with EventVue.com to provide a place to attendees of StartupEmpire to connect and share with eachother. If you have a ticket for StartupEmpire you should have recieved an invitation right now to log in…
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All you need is a blog to market your product? You’re so wrong.
We can’t wait to get started with the StartupEmpire conference on November 13 in Toronto, so we thought we’d pass the time by talking to a Canadian startup entrepreneur who has managed to grow his business from a…
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StartupEmpire is sold out
The only opportunity to get a ticket now is to put your entry in to Austin’s giveaway.
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10 Free Entrepreneur Packages for Startup Empire – A Contest
Guest post by Austin Hill, CEO of Akoha & Founder of Brudder Ventures. I’m really pleased to be speaking at Startup Empire on November 13th in Toronto. I’m going to be running a hands on workshop for entrepreneurs…
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Microsoft BizSpark – Software and Support for Startups
Microsoft is launching a new program focused on helping Startups get up and running. The program is called BizSpark and according to Microsoft, the biggest benefits are Software. Receive fast and easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development…
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StartupEmpire – One more iteration: 1 day, $65, same great opportunity
Any good startup has to iterate constantly. Market changes, product changes, management changes. Every part of the organization is help up to a high standard and when it does not make the cut, it has to change. With…
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Weekend Reading – November 1, 2008
The BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in 3 startups. $8M in MobiMate (a mobile travel planning system – Israel), $5.5M in Digby (a mobile commerce platform – Austin), and $3.2M in Buzzd (a mobile city guide – New York…
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Yaletown Ventures closes $65M
It might be the end of the world as we know it for venture capitalists. But Vancouver VC, Yaletown Venture Partners, announced their $100M Second Fund with $65M closing today. The fund is focused on early-stage investing in…
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Just Launched: Bizzia – b5media's business news portal
Earlier today b5media launched Bizzia, making their second foray into the world of blog aggregation. Bizzia is centered on business news, initially pulling together posts from 30 established b5 blogs and videos from content partner Your Business Channel.…
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Your Business 2.0
One type of pitch companies sometimes make goes something like this: Founders have a reasonably successful consulting services company where they do development or other project based consulting in a particular industry niche. Based on their knowledge of…
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Pipeline – US Venture Funding for Canadian Startups
Looking for venture funding? Consider participating in the following initiative run by PWC and Burns & Levinson LLP. The US/Canada Venture Capital Pipeline links venture capital firms and investment banking firms based in the US with Canadian companies…
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Weekend Reading
Ze Frank gives Idee Multicolr Search some well deserved love. Should venture funds that invest government money be restricted from doing deals with usurious terms? Kontangent was selected as a fbFund recipient. SoftImage was acquired by Autodesk for…