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AndyCamper.com – Get kids outdoors
AndyCamper.com launched this week. The Ottawa based startup is a sort of “activities portal” targeted at kids. The site categorizes activities in the same way that kids tend to, using broad titles like “bugs”. When you click through there are…
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Weekend Reading – August 2, 2008
The Up-sell. On sales. And how much to charge. Y Combinator, seven weeks in. On work. There is no place like home.
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iLoveRewards closes $4.7million Series A
Here is a company worth talking about. iLoveRewards took a big problem and found a quirky and economical solution to it. This is the kind of company had me gushing 10 seconds in to the pitch. I’m sure…
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30 Ideas that need to be Funded
Paul Graham has published Startup Ideas We?d Like to Fund at YCombinator. A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom Simplified browsing New news Outsourced IT Enterprise software 2.0 More variants of CRM Something…
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Tip of the week . . .
. . . do stuff with email. That gets people all hot and excited. For example “We are going to enable Web 2.0 collaboration via email“. That one is a freebie. Heads will nod. I even did some…
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Weekend Reading – July 26, 2008
Align interests or… FAIL. 5 more reasons to go with the little guy. VC musical chairs continues: Marc Faucher departed Summerhill Venture Partners to join JLA Ventures and drive their investment efforts in the new BlackBerry Partners Fund.…
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J2Play scores $250K grant from fbFund
J2Play, based in Waterloo, has landed a fbFund grant of $250,000. Founded by Rob Balahura in 2000, J2Play is a ?viral distribution framework for existing Web, Mobile, and PC casual games that helps them move their business to…
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Kontagent – Deeper Social Network Analytics
Kontagent, which straddles Toronto and San Francisco and Toronto, and is co-founded by Toronto native Albert Lai (no relation to Rick Segal), launched today at the Facebook Developers Conference. This is one of a few Canadian announcements coming…
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Canada's Undervalued Real Estate
Howard Lindzon, the founder of WallStrip and a partner at Knightsbridge Capital Partners, made a post today that I think is worth talking about. Howard spends most of his time in Pheonix, is an adviser to startups at…
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Weekend Reading – July 19, 2008
The next venture fund to go? This is how to recruit. This is how not to get hired. Well.ca launched ImWell live chat – very cool. Reminder – It?s a perfect time to do a startup. Canadian founders…
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How Startups will save Venture Capital in Canada
Last night I pitched the audience for the second time on How Startups Will Save Venture Capital in Canada. I first gave this talk in Moncton at Third Tuesday NB and the response was great. The title is…
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Canada does YCombinator – An Interview with Christopher Golda and Michael Montano
The Y Combinator session that is currently underway has two different groups of Canadians participating. Previously I interviewed Michael Parkatti & Michael Marrone a team from Calgary attending Y Combinator. This interview is with Christopher Golda and Michael…
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Weekend Reading – July 12, 2008
Love and Startups. Another gem from FreshBooks CEO Mike McDerment – The 5 Pillars of Customer Experience. Using Great Customer Service as a Differentiator. Y Combinator, five weeks in. Startups could learn a thing or two about marketing…
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AideRSS – postrank.com and a slew of updates
AideRSS was one of the first companies I really got excited about. I had (and have) done a lot of thinking about RSS as a market and how you would need to build a technology and a product…
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IT LAUNCHED! PlanetEye finally goes live
After my first post about PlanetEye and the teddy-bear response it garnered from their VC and co-founder Rick, I am not really predisposed to writing much about PlanetEye. Well, that was back in September and their new CEO,…
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praized.com – Local, niche, reviews and communities
Lets say that you run a highly successful online community of blond vegans who have a penchant for Prosciutto. You would like to manage local reviews for that community, but you do not have the technical ability or…
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VenturesWest shuttering offices, several people gone
After a day of posting great news from three startups, I hate to end things on a sad note. The Canadian VC community is getting hit hard again, this time it looks like VenturesWest is on its heels.…
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LearnHub.com Launches World's Largest Free SAT and GMAT Question Banks
Toronto based Learnhub.com, who we have profiled before, is making a big announcement today. LearnHub, who are doing deals all over the place these days, is quickly becoming a huge destination site for international students. Being able to…
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ChickAdvisor launches new show, does deal with Rogers Media
Toronto based ChickAdvisor.com has gone from fledgling community startup to a deal-making media machine overnight! The deal kicks off production of ChickAdvisor’s second video series, called ChickChatTV. The series, which is made up of 20 episodes at 90…
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Distinctly Canadian Web Habits
This is a guest post by CommunityLend.com CEO Michael Garrity. We have profiled CommunityLend in the past. There was a great piece in Saturday?s Globe and Mail outlining the contrast in the opinions of Canadians and Americans…