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Savvica is Back – Payoff for holding on!
John and Malgosia Green started Savvica in Toronto three years ago. Savvica was run on a shoestring budget. John and Malgosia were hitting the pavement hard, working on financing deals, partnerships and generally promoting Nuvvo, a do-it-yourself online…
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Do you know a great wordpress designer?
Startupnorth needs a better look. The current design, a hacked version of a free template, is pretty darn ugly. A lot of people comment on how ugly it is, so we figure it’s time for a change. So,…
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Mobivox takes $11 Million
Mobivox, a Montreal based startup has just raised $11 Million from IDG Ventures, Brightspark Ventures, and Skypoint Capital Corp. Mobivox is a value-added VOIP services provider focused on cell phones. They can let you connect to your own…
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Garage invests $2.5 Million in Lure Media, now a software startup
MontrealTechWatch got to it first, Lure Media, a Montreal based company had a busy week last week. While the rest of us were filling up on Turkey, they closed a deal to purchase IMPACT, IS, the makers of…
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Angel financing: Getting the money more quickly
As a follow up to my last post on timelines to getting angel financing, in this article I will talk a bit about how the process can be done quicker. Recall in my last post, I mentioned the…
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b5Media Launching Spekked – The big part of the Long Tail
What happens when you’ve made a business out of publishing hundreds and hundreds of niche blogs? b5Media, a Toronto based startup that has taken funding in the range of US$2-million co-lead by Brightspark Ventures and J. L. Albright…
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Angel financing – How long until I get the money?
In any early stage company, availabiliy of cash to fund operations & growth is an area of prime concern. So in this article I will talk about the timelines around securing angel financing. I will outline a hypothetical…
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BarCamp Canada!
Mark your calendars, BarCamp Canada is coming to town! Montreal is hosting Canada’s first-ever nationwide BarCamp, to be held next month, Saturday, November 3. For those of you not yet familiar with BarCamp, it is an unconference par…
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ConceptShare – Online Collaboration
Sudbury, Ontario based ConceptShare is one of the best examples of a fast growing, healthy and original startup in Canada. They have gone from idea, to execution and now to business development in a short period of time.…
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Free Software and Open Source Symposium – Toronto
Seneca’s 6th Annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium takes place October 25-26th, 2007 – 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the Seneca@York Campus in Toronto. The Symposium is a two-day event aimed at bringing together educators, developers…
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All Eyes on Idee – Visual Search: Part 1
Idee is a Toronto, Ontario based company that has been one of the biggest stars in the Canadian Startup community for years. Idee is a profitable and extremely original company. Their ultra-cool office on Queen St in Toronto…
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Tonight is the night – Dragon's Den Season 2 – Episode #1
If you have been wondering what it is like to be breathed on by a hot, fiery, and scaly creature, you can tune in tonight to see the ulta-hyped Dragon’s Den Season 2 on CBC. This season, like…
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Angel Investing – New Series
I’d like to welcome Craig Hayashi, of Maple Leaf Angels, to StartupNorth. The following post is the first article of a new StartupNorth series on angel financing Craig will be writing. We’re excited to have Craig on board…
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PlanetEye Launch Imminent
Update #2: 2startup has a review of the beta of Planeteye, confirming that they did launch in to a wider beta. We have no confirm/deny on the specific numbers we posted before, so we will leave the three…
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Amazon Web Services – Learn to Scale
What are you going to do to scale when the time comes? Are you planning for it now? Does it involve Amazon EC2, S3, flexible payment or another Amazon service? If you are curious and in Toronto, try…
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BC Startup Competition – Dec. 17 Deadline
Fear not, the east coast is not the only part of the country with a startup competition. Small Business BC is hosting their own business plan competition. There are separate categories for startups and for more mature growth…
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ThoughtFarmer – Facebook for the Enterprise
ThoughtFarmer, based in Vancouver, BC, is a startup in the hot enterprise 2.0 space. Why is the sector so exciting? Because it is changing enterprise work flow, knowledge sharing, and collaboration. Try imagining university before Facebook. ThoughtFarmer’s journey…
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Go East! Another Startup Competition – New Brunswick
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, another quasi-governmental agency in Atlantic Canada, is running it’s own startup competition for New Brunswick startups. There aren’t quite as many prizes as in the Innovacorp competition mentioned earlier, but it is still…
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indochino.com – Look good and spend a little less
The beta tag has come to retailing. Online retailing that is. Indochino is a Victoria, BC startup that is trying to bring made-to-measure suits to customers who want to look good, but don’t want to spend a fortune…
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Nova Scotia Startup Competition
Innovacorp, a Halifax based quasi-governmental funding, assistance and mentoring organization for startups is running a startup competition for companies, or soon-to-be companies, based in Nova Scotia. Each first place zone winner will receive a $100,000 prize package of…