From 2009-2014 StartupNorth had an index of Canadian emerging technology companies and service providers. We have removed this feature.
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Week in Review
New job posted: Senior Developer / Architect / UME Golf / Kitchener, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/mLnLnK # New job posted: Multiple Positions: SW Engineers, PM, Marketing / Fixmo / Toronto, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/lruL3s # New job posted: VP, Research…
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The VeloCity Venture Fund
Some rights reserved by Thomas Hawk Remember Ted Livingston’s insanely great donation to UW VeloCity, well it looks like it is being put to good use. The VeloCity team announced The Velocity Venture Fund. The University of Waterloo and the…
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OCE Discovery + Special DemoCamp + One Day Pass
Editor’s Note: This post is written by Paul Vice. Paul works the OCE team to enable special projects. This includes community outreach with groups like StartupNorth and DemoCamp. OCE has been a proud sponsor of DemoCamp and other…
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The Hot Sh!t List
Some rights reserved Photo by ALL CHROME There is a lot of crazy young talent kicking around. We’ve seen that great talent that UW Velocity is producing with Ted Livingston(@ted_livingston) at Kik. There are the Christopher (@golda) and Michael…
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The Presentation That Changed How I Think About Tech Ops
[blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/AYGMoH8C] I started my career in teleco, so I learned a very old school style of managing tech ops. 99.999% availability, planned everything, control-room style networks, etc. 10-levels of permissions & sign-offs to change anything. So imagine…
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Entrepreneurship as a career path
I am a huge F1 racing fan. And I was impressed to see a group of Ontario high school students participating in F1 in Schools at the Ontario Science Centre. It is an amazing concentrated effort to bring…
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Week in Review
RT @canadatechnews: High school students to see top projects at Waterloo's Designing the Future event http://eqent.me/fQvll0 # RT @meshconference: One day left to jump on the #mesh11 early-bird special to save $100 off the regular price http://bit.ly/hwEC0F #…
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The Misinterpretation of Minimal Viable Product
A few years ago the two memes of minimal viable product and lean product development were my favourites. There was this old-world, chronic problem of products getting stuck in product development until they reach “nirvana” – feature-itis, scope…
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Housecleaning and what’s next for StartupNorth
We have a little house cleaning to do here. We are starting to pick up the pace with posts but we are still missing a lot of good stuff. A lot of it gets posted to our Twitter…
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Coradiant acquired by BMC software
On the heels of yesterday’s acquisition of Tungle, BMC Software has announced today that they have acquired Montreal’s Coradiant, which was co-founded by Year One Labs partner Alistair Croll. We are happy that Montreal has managed to win something in…
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Riding the rails to Waterloo
Some rights reserved by Danielle Scott Why isn’t there a commuter train from Toronto to Waterloo? Ok, you might ask actually ask why Toronto doesn’t have a train from downtown to the airport but let’s leave that for a…
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RIM acquires Tungle
Congratulations to Marc and the Tungle team. Tungle announced their acquisition by RIM. Tungle had previously raised $1.5M from JLA, Desjardin, and angels and $5M from Commonweatlth. This is a great addition for the RIM team to continue…
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‘Punch a Banker, Hug a Developer’
Fun and quick interview I did in Montreal a few weeks back about the state of the early stage investor and entrepreneur ecosystem.
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Sponsor Post – It’s getting cloudy out there
I was approached by David Crow with an appealing proposition; we would help StartupNorth.ca by migrating their site to our infrastructure and have us manage it, and in return we will become a sponsor and have our logo…
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Controlling Burn (Part 2)
I think helping failing startups is going to be a great business opportunity in the next 12-18 months. In fact, anybody want to do a startup about helping failing startups. All those overvalued frothy companies are in for…
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Does your startup need to be massive?
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by serial entrepreneur and investor Howard Lindzon of StockTwits and SocialLeverage. He was born and raised in Toronto and has a soft spot for his hometown and Canadian entrepreneurs. Follow him on…
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Our newest sponsor: VMFarms
Some rights reserved by Arthur40A It was at StartupDrinks or the StartupNorth Meetup when I was talking with Christopher and Hany at VMFarms about our hosting woes. StartupNorth.ca had been offline for about 24 hours, and we were in…
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ExtremeU 2011
Our friends over at Extreme Venture Partners have announced the recruitment for the Summer 2011 Cohort of the Extreme University. We written about the past programs: 2010 – Be the next Bumptop 2009 – The Graduating Class 2009 –…
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Seed Funding – Some New Considerations
Some rights reserved Photo by Pictoscribe I started writing this post while working on my presentation for Enterprise Toronto‘s Small Business Forum 2010 on raising capital for high growth businesses. I’m by no means an expert at this topic, but…
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StartupFestival – Call for Startup Pitches
The team behind Startup Festival (which StartupNorth is a Media Sponsor) has started the call for startups looking to pitch and launch at the festival. They are looking for startups in a variety of verticals, at a variety…