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The Paradox of Choice
I love what is going on in Montreal. YearOneLabs Real Ventures Notman House AccelerateMTL NextMontreal iNovia Capital Rho Canada ConFoo Montreal NewTech It’s nice. It’s concise. It’s clean. There is choice but it’s not overwhelming. It feels like…
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Surviving The Cash Crunch (Part 1)
You are 3-6 months away from running out of cash. Your current business model & strategy isn’t going to make it happen over that same period. You are unable to raise a new round. This is another classic…
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StartupWeekend Toronto – Summer Edition
StartupWeekend is coming back to Toronto this June 3-5. After an excellent kick-off event last September, Toronto is primed to bring it again. If you don’t believe that you can get started building real companies in a weekend…
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Pushlife acquired by Google
Details are still emerging but it sounds like another Toronto company has been acquired by the GOOG. We’ve been hearing that the purchase price is close to $25MM, hopefully that’s Canadian Dollars this week and not US Dollars.…
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Startup’s Razor
Here’s is a lesson I (almost) learnt the hard way. Back in 2006, I met a talented developer who had built a novelty web telephony product. We caught up for a tea and discussed applications for the technology.…
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Hunting Elephants
Recent news of the GoDaddy Elephant Hunt (warning graphic video) offers two lessons for startups. The first is obvious, as CEO your personal brand is inescapably linked to your company. The second is perhaps somewhat less obvious in the…
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Mid-Stage Startup Analytics (or when to pivot)
I heart mid-stage startup life. Its dirty, gritty, hard decision making where you really learn your business inside out. You can turn yourself into a successful business or you can drive your business into a classic brain-eating, zombie…
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Startup Festival coming to Montreal – Why it’s important
I know that David just posted about the upcoming Startup Festival, but I thought I would add my own thoughts: I have definitely been getting the feeling that the whole “startup conference” format is getting a little stale.…
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A Startup Festival
Our friends Philippe Telio (@ptelio), JS Cournoyer (@jscournoyer) and Alistair Croll (@acroll) have pulled together a spectacular festival in Montreal for startups. They launced today at AccelerateMTL and the speaker list includes great folks: Sean Ellis Howard Lindzon…
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Year One Labs — The Perfect “Incubator”?
I abhor the term “incubator”. I remember in fifth grade when our teacher brought in a chicken incubator to show us how chickens are born. We waited and waited and waited a while longer still. All the little…
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Salesforce acquires Radian6 for $326 Million
This will be all over the news today so I won’t try to keep pace with the commentary, but the news that Salesforce has agreed to acquire Radian6 a Fredericton, New Brunswick company founded in 2006 ,is out. I…
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Ted Livingston is insane in the best sort of way
A lot of people talked shit about the recent valuation of Kik. It all seemed a bit insane and I admit the numbers I heard seemed wild. That was until word dropped that Union Square Ventures has joined…
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Indochino goes big, raises $4m in capital
We first covered Indochino when they launched back in 2007. To say I was excited would be an understatement and anyone who knows me knows I have been advertising their stuff to anyone who will listen since then.…
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The Tech Bubble IS the Recovery
I keep hearing nonsense about tech bubbles recently. I think people are losing sight of the opportunity in front of them right now. There are something like 500mm broadband customers in the world right now. There are over 5b…
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DFAIT Technology Growth Initiative Business Bootcamps
DFAIT is sponsoring the Technology Growth Initiative (TGI) Business Bootcamps Spring 2011 to help Canadian companies go-to-market in specific US markets (Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco/Silicon Valley and others). The program provides startups with access to webinars,…
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Web Startup Society Career Fair
The Web Startup Society at the University of Toronto is hosting a startup career faire on April 7, 2011. This is a great opportunity for local startups looking to hire developers, interns, engineers, designers, and other smart problem…
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Choking online media growth in Canada
So let’s review what I did yesterday: Read about how video and social networks are helping to re-shape the Middle East Worked a bit on a start-up I’m advising called Shiny Art, which rents video art over the Internet Watched…
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Going over the falls together in barrel
Editor’s Note: This post was written by Jesse Rodgers. Jesse is the CEO of TribeHR, the Director of the VeloCity Residence at the University of Waterloo, organizer of StartupCamp in Waterloo and an allround great guy. Jesse stopped by…
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Sales, Marketing, PR and Support in Startups
Fred Wilson wrote a few posts about marketing in startups. He really put his unvarnished opinion out there and circled back with a bug report. Sometimes when you put your opinions on paper your expose your blind spots.…
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Giveaway – 2 Tickets to Art of Marketing on March 7, 2011
StartupNorth and The Art of Marketing are giving away 2 tickets to the March 7, 2011 conference in Toronto. The conference features: Guy Kawasaki (@guykawasaki) on Creativity & Innovation Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) on Social Media & Word of Mouth…