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Toronto: Why Are We Here?
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Zak Homuth (LinkedIn, @zakhomuth, Github). Follow him on Twitter @zakhomuth. This post was originally published on February 1, 2012. And like many startups, Upverter is hiring. Some rights reserved by wvs Its winter right now, and that means…
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GrowLab on tour
Some rights reserved by miketippett Ok, it makes me laugh every time I read GrowLab. The only way it could be better is when someone describes the GrowLab companies as “GrowOps”. They really did a great job in creating a…
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Extreme Startups
Rob Lewis and TechVibes is reporting that ExtremeU (you can read our past coverage 2009, 2010, 2011) has launched a new Toronto based incubator that leverages their experience over the past 3 years. Mark Evans provides additional details…
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An incubator for grownups…
Some rights reserved by mallix David Crow and others (Huffington Post, TechCrunch) have suggested we’re experiencing an incubator bubble? Incubators are built for the young. Students exiting school are already living the ramen lifestyle. That means they’re cheap, they have no…
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Hiring for Lean Startups: The First Few Hires
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Flow Ventures written by Raymond Luk (LinkedIn, @rayluk). Follow him on Twitter @rayluk. This post was originally published in January 12, 2012 on Flow Ventures. Some rights reserved by Maximus_W I was…
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While startup CEOs are scrubbing toilets, CTOs are building things
Editor’s Note: Gavin Uhma is the CTO of GoInstant.com, a Halifax, NS based startup. Technical Co-Founders need to find their voice. I’ve been in the fray of building a startup for over a year now and normally I…
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Call us when you have traction
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Kevin Swan (LinkedIn, @kevin_swan). Kevin has cut his chops doing product management at Nexopia.com before becoming it’s CEO. He moved to the dark side with Cardinal Venture Partners and is now a Principal at iNovia Capital. Thankfully…
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When Does a Startup Stop Being a Startup?
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Mark Evans Tech written by Mark Evans of ME Consulting. Follow him on Twitter @markevans or MarkEvansTech.com. This post was originally published in January 11, 2012 on MarkEvansTech.com. Some rights reserved by Tiggywinkle This may be a question of semantics but…
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It’s people, people!
Some rights reserved by vj_pdx How do I know that emerging technology is still booming? It is incredibly difficult and competitive to recruit, hire and retain people with startup experience across Canada. Just look at the number of jobs posted…
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Under the Hood: The Technical Setup of Upverter
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from the Upverter blog written by Zak Homuth (LinkedIn, @zakhomuth, Github). Follow him on Twitter @zakhomuth. This post was originally published on August 1, 2011, I was just negligent in posting it. Who doesn’t love tech…
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Who Will Be Canada’s Hot Startups in 2012?
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Mark Evans Tech written by Mark Evans of ME Consulting. Follow him on Twitter @markevans or MarkEvansTech.com. This post was originally published in January 3, 2012 on MarkEvansTech.com. Some rights reserved by Eric Brian Ouano The flurry of high-tech deals last…
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Shit, that was a big year. Now we make our move…
2011 was an important year for Canadian Startups. We had some exits. Over $1bn worth. We needed that. The more important thing is that a lot of those exits were by entrepreneurs who “get it” and who are going to…
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How a Canadian startup took investment from a european incubator
This is a guest post by Patrick Hankinson, the CEO/Founder of Compilr.com a Halifax based startup building an online IDE which has almost 100,000 users. Patrick is also a co-founder of Tether.com. In early 2011, I met an entrepreneur…
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Should We Drink the Local Kool-Aid?
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Mark Evans Tech written by Mark Evans of ME Consulting. Follow him on Twitter @markevans or MarkEvansTech.com. This post was originally published in December 15, 2011 on MarkEvansTech.com. Some rights reserved by Eric Constantineau – www.ericconstantineau.com In the post I wrote…
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Location, location, location
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Lymbix founder and CTO Josh Merchant (LinkedIn, @joshmerchant). Josh was born and raised in Brampton, before relocating to New Brunswick to attend the University of New Brunswick. Josh and the team…
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When a Massive Opportunity Knocks!
Editors Note: This is a guest post by Chris Arsenault (LinkedIn, @chrisarsenault) a tech entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. Chris is the Co-Chair of the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX), a board member at the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA), a Supporter of…
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High Tech Holidays and HoHoTO
I can’t believe it was back in 2008 that #HoHoTO started. For the past 3 years instead of a Holiday DemoCamp or Festive Founders & Funders, we’ve sponsored and attended HoHoTO. (We’ve even helped document the shenanigans). So why…
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Incubators, Accelerators, and Cyclotrons
Some rights reserved by leg0fenris They are lining up like storm troopers. It looks like a new crop of accelerators, incubators or, as I prefer, cyclotrons have started opening in Toronto. We’ve been talking on and off about Incubators, Accelerators and…
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OMERS Ventures ramps up with Howard Gwin & Derek Smyth
Some rights reserved by Stuck in Customs It’s has been a long time since Canadians have seen the creation of a new 200MM+ venture capital fund. It was back in June 2010 that OMERS announced the creation of the INKEF…