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Angel financing – Term sheets (part 3)
In the final part of this article series on term sheets, I’ll cover some of the remaining terms typically found in a term sheet. Use of proceeds When investors put their money into a company, the general expectation…
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Weekend Reading – April 19, 2008
What an exciting week! Financings, product launches, cross-border acquisitions, partnerships, merger talks! We tried to stay on top of all the news, but here are a few things we missed: Live Current acquired exclusive media rights to an…
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AideRSS partners with NewsGator
NewsGator has integrated the AideRSS PostRank filter into their online rss reader. This first partnership is a coup for AideRSS in as far as it exposes their PostRank technology to a larger audience. NewsGator has at least an…
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b5media + Technorati merger talks over?
This morning a slide from a PowerPoint deck outlining a potential merger between JLA-backed blog network b5media and blog search engine Technorati was leaked. Techcrunch says that the deal has been called off. Toronto based b5media has been…
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Founders and Funders Montreal – May 14th 2008
The second Founders and Funders Dinner has been announced for Montreal. Tickets are $100 This dinner, like the last one and the Toronto event is still by invitation only, but some changes have been made to make sure…
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MediaScrape – Will Montreal give us another Capazoo?
TechCrunch is asking some questions about Montreal-Based MediaScrape. I don’t know anything about them, but it seems like they are either stretching the truth or things aren’t as simple as they seem. Being an aggregator of video (letting…
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Radiant Core acquired by Zerofootprint
Radiant Core has been acquired by Zerofootprint Software. Radiant Core was a Toronto-based web design and development shop led by Jay Goldman and Mike Glenn. Zerofootprint is a Toronto-based company that “provides information, products and services for the…
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Launching Tungle
Tungle went live today. As you may recall, the Outlook plug-in meeting coordinator raised $1.5M from JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital last year. They had hoped to launch a couple months after winning a 2007 Demo God…
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StartupCamp Toronto 2 – Voting Season
Applications are in, which means voting season has arrived! 12 startups have applied to pitch, so check them out, they look like a great bunch! If you have a ticket, you’ll shortly receive an email invitation to vote…
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Running a startup blog isn't easy – MontrealTechWatch 2.0
Heri, the brains behind MontrealTechWatch, is calling an open meeting to discuss the future of the blog, and I think, by implication, the future of the Montreal tech startup community. Heri has been writing MontrealTechWatch for just over…
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Weekend Reading – April 12, 2008
CIX and Mesh are both approaching, as well as two StartupCamps (Montreal and Toronto). Surprisingly, it has been a bit of a quiet week in the startup world, perhaps everyone is hard at work! Austin Hill talks about…
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StartupCamp Toronto 2 – Last release of tickets
We have put more Entrepreneur and Guru tickets up for grabs for StartupCampToronto 2. It is looking like a great night and it is your chance to hear from some new startups and we also have Leila Boujnane…
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DemocampGuelph 5 – 4 New Companies!
Jonas and I went to Guelph yesterday for DemoCamp Guelph 5. When we arrived in Guelph we stopped by the Well.ca offices and picked up some Roti (try the Doubles, delicious!). We had a great time and the…
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Presenting companies announced for CIX 2008
If you are going to have a beauty contest (or not), the contestants may as well be good looking, and CIX seems to have delivered. I have to admit that I didn’t even think the list would turn…
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Conceptshare announces API
Conceptshare has released details about their API today. This is a big move for the Sudbury, Ontario based company and I think it opens a whole new set of opportunities for them. For those who don’t know: An…
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DemoCampGuelph Tonight – April 9th 2008
Jonas and I are heading to DemoCampGuelph tomorrow. The lineup looks great, it includes: Liveoffcamp.us!, doctopus, myvine and fossfactory. While this isn’t a startupcamp, Jonas and I will be doing a rapidfire pitch of our own: (Less Stupid)…
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Spring Acquisitions: Meriton Networks & Sirific Wireless
As promised… we have a couple spring acquisitions: Meriton Networks, an optical networking infrastructure company based in Ottawa, has been acquired by Xtera Communications. Meriton had taken venture financing from: Desjardins Venture Capital Group, Newbury Ventures, Nomura International,…
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Sneak Peek: Brain Park
Earlier today Marc Dowds released a PDF Diagram that gives us a hint of what his latest venture, Brain Park, is all about. Take a peek… Is there a pot of gold waiting for Brain Park at the…
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Angel financing – Term sheets (part 2)
One of the first things a term sheet will outline is the investment mechanism for the deal. The two most common types are equity (via common or preferred shares) or convertible debt. Equity, as the name implies, is…
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Weekend Reading – April 5, 2008
Spring is finally in the air, and with it acquisition offers, financings, and lawsuits. Mostly hijinks so far, but some big announcements are sure to follow in the weeks ahead. Well.ca gets an acquisition offer. Canadian blog network…