From 2009-2014 StartupNorth had an index of Canadian emerging technology companies and service providers. We have removed this feature.
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Holy Schmoly – iLoveRewards Rumoured to Raise $25mm Round
As you know, something like 10 of the past 12 articles on startupnorth have been grumblings either in the article or in the comments about lack of Canadian startups trying to go big and how the ecosystem here…
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The Upside Of Canada’s Startup Buying Binge
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from StartupCFO written by Mark MacLeod, it is a response to Mark Evans’ post The Downside of Canada’s Startup Buying Binge. Mark MacLeod is a Partner at Real Ventures, Canada’s largest seed VC…
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GoInstant launching tonight at TechCrunch Disrupt
You haven’t seen many posts recently from my StartupNorth Cofounder Jevon MacDonald for a very good reason… he has been working on a startup. Customers can’t wait to get their hands on it. Robert Scoble had this to say: “It…
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The Downside of Canada’s Start-up Buying Binge
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 September 12, 2011 on MarkEvansTech.com. Some rights reserved by SteelToad There has been a lot of euphoria and…
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Quota is not a dirty word
Some rights reserved by Pedro Vezini “We are ALL in sales” – Dale Carnegie I used to think that quota was a dirty word. It struck me as restricting freedom and potentially forced the exploitation of trusted customers and prospects…
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Startup Offspring
We’ve been focusing a lot on exits recently. Some folks have asked “why celebrate”? So many are $30-$50mm exits, who cares? $30-$50mm exits = VCs dying = ecosystem dying… or so goes the logic. Let me tell the…
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Did we hit a billion?
Today IBM just announced the $387MM acquisition of Toronto-based Algorithmics. It begs a couple of open questions. Is Algorithmics after being sold to Fitch for $174MM in 2004 still a Canadian startup? Can a 30 year old company…
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Lean Startup Tools
Some rights reserved by splorp Back in May, Nat Friedman wrote about the tools used in setting up Xamarin. They include a great set of basic tools for getting a startup off the ground with very little investment. We have…
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The Mentor Manifesto by David Cohen
Some rights reserved by pasukaru76 I am continually amazed at the horror stories I hear from entrepreneurs about finding mentors. About mentors taking large pieces of the company and not providing any value in return. It was great to see…
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Trying to understand incubator math
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jesse Rodgers who is currently the Director of Student Innovation at the University of Waterloo responsible for the VeloCity Residence & he is also the cofounder of TribeHR. Jesse specializes in…
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Apply for Strata Launch Pad
It’s no secret that Big Data is hot. At O’Reilly’s upcoming Strata conference in New York, a panel of VC judges will be choosing the top firms with a Big Data story, who will present on stage during…
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Nina Sodhi returns and BluTrumpet launches
One of the great things about the number of exits (be they big or small) since 2010, is that they are enabling a new class of veteran, serial entrepreneurs. The knowledge, the contacts, the street cred, the capital…
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Red flags
Some rights reserved by Bob AuBuchon This is an unfortunate story that entrepreneurs should read and understand. We start companies for a number of different reasons. We want to change the world. We want to solve problems. We are unemployable.…
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The Story of Quack.com and How It Changed the Canadian Startup Ecosystem
A few weeks past I posted about the hockey stick growth of exit in Canadian startups. Well, let me give some interesting colour to some of the cause of that growth. Quack.com is a company that most of…
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Aaarggh – VC Funds Are Drying Up?
Yesterday and today I’ve been trying to make sense of two different data points that came out on the Canadian business scene. One data point confirms that we are having a banner year across Canada. Check out the…
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Show me the money
Some rights reserved by Bruce McKay~YSP I love when entrepreneurs tell me that raising capital in Canada is hard (it is). I love it even more when they tell me that they think “they should move to Silicon Valley” because…
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More GrowConf tickets via ShinyAds & Nokia
Need a ticket for the Grow Conference? The generous sponsors of the Grow Conference are continuing to offer a few free tickets to some starving startups over the next week. We call this Conference Ticket – Ramen Class.…
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On becoming Silicon Valley North…
Some rights reserved by Loozrboy I am a bit of a shrinking violet. And I hate expressing my opinion about things. Like most Canadians I’d rather apologies for things and be polite. But I hate when I get asked by…
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Can’t make it to GrowConf? Try TechTalksTO
We’re big fans of all of the technical community efforts going on across the country. I have the privilege of going to Vancouver next week for GrowConf, but we want to return the favor to local entrepreneurs and students in…
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Need a ticket for the Grow Conference?
The sponsors of the Grow Conference are offering a chance to win one of a few tickets to some starving startups. Each day a new sponsor will give away tickets, the best way to stay on top of…