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Pre-Launch Marketing for Stealthy Startups
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by serial entrepreneur and marketing executive April Dunford who is currently the head of Enterprise Market Strategy for Huawei. April specializes in brining new products to market including messaging, positioning, market strategy,…
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Founder Fuel Jam Session in TO
Nothing like the last minute planning around here. Ian Jeffrey (LinkedIn, @ianmtl) from FounderFuel is planning on being in Toronto today (June 27, 2011) and tomorrow (June 28, 2011). He is planning on meeting with startups and founders to…
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Week in Review
Love the @instagram @color contrast in this post http://read.bi/j7bTBf # In Waterloo hanging with @jrodgers @josephfung talking @tribeHR @UWVelocity # I am going to open an incubator for VCs. You get some seed capital and a kick in…
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Let’s remove “entrepreneur” from the dictionary
Editors Note: This is a guest post by Brian Sharwood (LinkedIn, @bsharwood). Brian is the President of Homestars (@homestars), the leading online free listing and rating company for Home Improvement specialists. Prior to HomeStars, he was a research…
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The Gravedancer Fund
It’s painfully obvious and we should stop ignoring the facts: RIM is cratering and there is nothing that can be done to save them, short of firing the confused people who are running the show these days. I…
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Desperately seeking early adopters
Editors Note: This is a guest post by first-time entrepreneur Mike Potter (LinkedIn, @mike_j_potter) who previously was a Marketing Manager at Adobe, a project manager at Mozilla and an engineer at an Ottawa area startup. Mike has spent time…
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Week in Review
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" RT @ceonyc: Ignore startup history at your peril http://bit.ly/mdcez7 # New job posted: Software Engineer (Internal Tools) / Kontagent Inc. / Toronto, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/m1eCeW # My…
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Does RIM Matter to Startups?
If you haven’t heard by now, RIM is having a horrible year. Their earnings meeting yesterday was chock full of bad news: Q1 revenue: $4.9 billion vs. $5.15 billion consensus Q1 EPS: $1.33 vs. $1.32 consensus Q1 shipments:…
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Launch at GROW
Ready to launch this summer? The clock is ticking on a great opportunity to launch your startup at the GROW conference. Startups from across Canada can compete for a chance to Launch at GROW. 15 startups will be chosen…
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Is 1 the Loneliest Number?
Last week Tim Ferris, of 4 Hour Work Week fame interviewed the guys from Pivotal Labs and learnt the secret of their success – pair programming! It was a very thought provoking piece on how to get stuff…
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2011 CIX Top 20 Nominations
We’ve written about the work that CIX is doing in building Canadian Technology Accelerator with ties to the US. They continue to build a showcase for Canadian startups in a variety of emerging fields. They have recently announced the…
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What’s the point of following rules?
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by serial entrepreneur Hiten Shah who’s latest startup is KISSmetrics. Follow him on Twitter @hnshah. This post was originally published June 4, 2011 via his email newsletter Hitenism which you should definitely sign…
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Week in Review
Congratulations to @500px on the Series A – http://tcrn.ch/j0DmaL # RT @GoEpicRise: A report on the progress of the 20 teams competing to win at #swtoronto – http://bit.ly/jxgDg2 # A new fund is starting to take shape in…
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DemoCamp Toronto 29 Wrapup
Last night marked amazingly the 29th event of Toronto’s increasingly supernumerative DemoCamp scene. To warm up the crowd we had a little help from legendary Canadian investor and the man with a few more twitter followers than you,…
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WaveAccounting raises from INKEF Capital
Our friends at WaveAccounting announced yesterday that they had raised a $1.5MM seed investment from INKEF Captial. We’re big fans of WaveAccounting, in fact, it’s what we use to manage the receipts and books for StartupNorth. It means…
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DEMO Innovation tour returns
Some rights reserved by The DEMO Conference The Demo Innovation is Everywhere tour is coming back to Canada with stops in Toronto & Montreal. The event includes 2 parts, a chance to pitch/present to local VCs (Rogers Ventures) and…
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Customer Retention: 7 Ideas for Marketers
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by serial entrepreneur and marketing executive April Dunford who is currently the head of Enterprise Market Strategy for Huawei. April specializes in brining new products to market including messaging, positioning, market strategy,…
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2011, The 1 Billion Dollar Year??
Edit 1 – Techvibe just put together a more comprehensive list than mine – http://www.techvibes.com/blog/techvibes-comprehensive-list-of-canadian-tech-acquisitions-50-and-counting-2011-06-08. It is an even a bigger year than I thought! Edit 2 – I have been corrected that the Coradiant acquisition was more…
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7 Startup Customer Discovery Questions
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by serial entrepreneur and marketing executive April Dunford who is currently the head of Enterprise Market Strategy for Huawei. April specializes in brining new products to market including messaging, positioning, market strategy,…