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Founders and Funders Toronto Wrapup
Founders and Funders Toronto took place this week and we had another sellout. We had just over 100 people who came out to hang out, pitch their startups and find fundable companies. A lot of food went cold…
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Third Tuesday NB: Venture Capital, Startups and Social Media
I am heading to Moncton next week to hang out and give a quick talk on the state of Venture Capital in Canada and what that means for Startups. The meetup is on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at…
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Weekend Reading – June 7, 2008
Some record breaking and recordings: David Crow celebrates 1 year at MSFT. Pema Hegan, cofounder of GigPark, scored a wicked short domain: http://pe.ma. In case you weren’t able to get out to StartupCamp Waterloo this week… Will Spaetzel,…
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Mercury Rising: Watch a Startup reinvent itself
The guys at MercuryGrove, who last year came out with a product called Web Groups are now reinventing themselves as a multiple product company. In the next few months they will be re-developing Web Groups and introducing a…
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Wanted: Startup Revolutionaries
We have some really great stuff cooking and we want to get more people involved. Our goal with StartupNorth has been pretty simple: We want to write about great startups, help some get funded and also throw the…
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StartupCamp Waterloo 3 Recap
This is a guest post by Mic Berman, one of the instigators of StartupCamp Waterloo. Thanks Mic! We had great turn out and interesting crowd, lots of new startups first time demonstrating in a public forum. The event…
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Mesh Conference – 15 Minutes of Fame
One of the startup-focused parts of Mesh is the 15 Minutes of Fame they do evey year. Each day of the conference 3 companies are given 5 minutes each to pitch themselves or their product to the audience.…
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As the Web Turns: Spielo – Co-Founders for Sale?
Just how bad ass of an entrepreneur are you? Will you kick your friends and co-founders to the curb when the time comes? When the money is about to roll in, will you put the rub on your…
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Reminder: StartupCamp Waterloo tomorrow (June 3rd)
Just a quick reminder that StartupCamp Waterloo is taking place today, June 3rd 2008, at the Waterloo Accelerator Center at 6pm. I just got off the phone with Mic Berman, one of the organizers, and she says that…
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Weekend Reading – May 31, 2008
Founders & Funders Toronto is coming! Founders & Funders Toronto is coming!! Now back to your regularly scheduled weekend programming: Mark Dowds is showcasing BrainPark on Global TV this morning at 11:30am. If you miss the segment and…
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The Code Factory – Ottawa Co-Working Space
The Code Factory is having its grand opening tonight in Ottawa. The Code Factory is a shared office space for startups and freelancers. Here in Toronto we had The Indoor Playground for a few years, but due to…
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Pride and Prejudice – Why startups need community
I was feeling extraordinarily proud of Idée last night when I saw that they received glowing coverage on TechCrunch. It is well deserved, and it seems like they are just getting started in terms of press coverage. They…
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Angel Financing – Investor Management
“Investor Management” is probably the area of most complaint that investor’s have about companies they are involved in. Basically the scenario typically goes something like this: The company is pitching for funding. Throughout the pitch & due diligence…
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CVCA – "The Face of Change" – Montreal
I am heading to Montreal next week for the Canadian Venture Capital Association’s annual conference. The theme this year is “The Face of Change”, and the idea is to look at what causes change in the VC and…
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MeshU: One day developer mini conference that rocked
This is a guest post by Chris Long, the lead developer of Well.ca and a partner in the launch of the StartupIndex. MeshU, which took place on the day before the Mesh Conference here in Toronto, was a…
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Will you bet on VenCorps?
The VenCorps machine has been ramping up lately and it got a further injection of excitement with some posts in the last week. The premise of VenCorps is this: You record a video of your “pitch” and upload…
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Weekend Reading – May 18, 2008
Been a bit quiet round these parts… Jevon is on the road and my computer caught the dreaded Vista. Next week will be exciting though as Chris and I will be covering MESHU and MESH. Serial entrepreneur Jeff…
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TSX Venture Exchange Entrepreneurial Bootcamp
Moderated by Sean Wise, Wise Mentor Capital Decide if Public Venture Capital (PVC) is right for you. TSX Venture Exchange’s Entrepreneurial Bootcamp is tailored for CEOs and CFOs of aggressive growth companies considering raising capital from the PVC…
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2008 ACE Exposition
Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) held their showcase of entrepreneurs at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. ACE is a charitable organization that delivers programming to higher education students to inspire them to make meaningful contribution to words their community…
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StartupIndex: Canadian Startup Map
We just launched a neat new mapping feature on StartupIndex. As more data gets entered by the community, a lot of the entries contain address information. We weren’t really using this in any special ways until Ali really…