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From 2009-2014 StartupNorth had an index of Canadian emerging technology companies and service providers. We have removed this feature.

  • Lowered Expectations

    I keep wondering about some entrepreneurs living in a bubble. Not the usual doom and gloom startup bubble or a Incubator Accelerator Bubble but a reality distorting bubble that causes them to completely forget about why people (VCs, angels, banks, others) make…

  • Attachments.me Launches Grouping Feature

    I met the attachments.me team a while back while they were still up here in Toronto, sharing office space with David Crow (@davidcrow). Unfortunately for all of us, two of Canada’s better tech guys (@jesse_miller,@ryancoe) are now down…

  • Canada is THE Best Place to do a Startup

    Last night was Five Mobile’s big Zynga acquisition celebration party at Cheval’s rooftop patio. Great event, lots of Toronto’s startup community were hanging out. Lots of cool conversations and introductions. It had a few of us talking about…

  • Under the Hood – Lymbix

    We continue the Under the Hood series with a Q&A with Lymbix CTO and Hot Sh!t List member Josh Merchant (@joshmerchant, LinkedIn). (Disclosure: I sit on the Board of Directors for Lymbix and helped them with their application/acceptance to the Microsoft BizSpark…

  • Hacker House in Waterloo

    Looks like Waterloo is about to get an addition to the already existing hacker houses and VeloCity residence that are happening around campus. Does anyone remember Plurk? Plurk was the site that MSN China copied over 80% of…

  • Baby Steps

    Once upon a time @jevon wrote a vision on how to rebuild the startup scene in Canada (below). Its relatively amazing how spot-on Jevon proved to be in hindsight, and how much the Canadian eco-system moved in that…

  • Single People Should NOT Do Startups

    Last night, my 1 and half year old didn’t fall asleep sleep until 11pm (normal bed time = 7:30pm) and then woke up at 2am and screamed till 5am. He is cutting his eye teeth. On top of…

  • 11 Lessons for Early Stage CEOs

    Editor’s Note: Daniel Klass (LinkedIn, @klasscapital) is an experienced private equity investor having spent time at TD Capital and EdgeStone Capital Partners before raising his fund Klass Capital. Daniel and the team at Klass Capital focus on small…

  • TechTalksTO Underground

    Along with the team at FreshBooks, StartupNorth is proud to support TechTalksTO. TechTalksTO previous put together a series of speakers at the Gladstone Hotel on West Queen West that feature some great talks about technology for Toronto developer…

  • Teaching Software Engineering and Startups at UofT

     Some rights reserved by SteveGarfield About 5 years ago I was asked to teach a 4th year undergrad software engineering course at the University of Toronto. The course had been previously cancelled due to low enrollment; in an era dubbed…

  • How to Hire Me, A Technical Co-Founder

    There has been a lot of buzz the past 6-8 months about hiring great technical co-founders. The implication seems to be that being a non-technical co-founder is a handicap of sorts and that CEOs buy sandwiches before the…

  • Zynga Acquires Toronto’s Five Mobile – And I am Going To Embarrass My Now Rich Friend

    I know we re-tweeted this story from another source already, but I have a good personal connection to this company and I wanted to use this forum for something. To start, here is the post from Zynga: “Zynga…

  • Why Wasn’t BackType Funded in Canada?

    This is a cross post from Mark Evans Tech written by Mark Evans of ME Consulting. For those of us who work in the Canadian social media and startup circles, there was some celebrating earlier this week when BackType announced it had…

  • Win $5000 – Kik Launches In-Phone SDK and Competition

    In February this year, Fred Wilson wrote a great piece about the need for mobile app “glue” (my words). Here is the exact phrasing: “When I was at the music hackday a few weekends ago, I noticed that…

  • Under the Hood – Chango

    I am always curious at what startups are using for the technology under the hood. It helps define the technologies that frontend and backend developers looking for jobs might start using. It helps understand what skills are being…

  • Supersize Your Startup Dev Productivity

    Some rights reserved by Dav Since I wrote the interview with Farhan of Xtreme Labs on Pair Programming, I have exchanged a number of emails on pair programming & developer productivity with some of Canada’s best developers. Most of…

  • National Survey of Canadian Angel Group Activity

    Today, the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) released statistics regarding Canadian Angel group investment activity in the Investment Activity by Canadian Angel Groups: 2010 Report. This study looked at the ‘visible’ portion of the Angel investor community – those…

  • BackType acquired by Twitter

    Congratulations Christopher Golda (@golda) and Michael Montano (@michaelmontano) on Twitter acquiring BackType. We’ve written about BackType since their acceptance in YCombinator (fortunate that we didn’t give iPartee their previous startup too much attention). This is another amazing acquisition…

  • Week in Review

    "Silicon Valley has two speeds: full speed ahead and not going anywhere. " http://on.wsj.com/jueY4h # RT @rogerchabra: No doubt the number of "VC is Dead!" articles is inversely correlated to the the number of "Are We in a…

  • Emerging Market Opportunities

    So I just finished a big tour de Southeast Asia. There is really only one story going on over there – Mobile. Check out this research from BCG (BRICI = Brazil, Russia, India, China, Indonesia): 1.2B new internet…