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FedDev steps up with $190MM for S. Ontario
The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario announced a new Investing in Business Innovation program. The program offers matching for early-stage venture funding. This is a $190MM running from 2010-2014. There are provisions for startups and angel…
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An enterprise startups survey
Hey– if you are creating an “enterprise startup” (B2B) then I could use your help. I have created a short questionnaire that I am sending out to people who have built or are building enterprise focused software startups.…
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Shelter for startups in Ottawa
Scott Annan announced he was making available some of the space in the newly acquired NetworkHippo/Mercury Grove office space for startups. It is a raw space located in downtown Ottawa to enable startups and entrepreneurs to come together…
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Shoestring budgets & sponsorship
We continue to run DemoCamp on a shoestring budget. Sure it sucks that it’s during the day. Sure it sucks that it costs $15. But we run these events at cost recovery. Sometimes we lose money (uhm, StartupEmpire…
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XX Tech Founders
An entrepreneur asked me last night, at StartupDrinks Toronto, if I knew any women entrepreneurs in Canada. Here is a list of entrepreneurs and advisors that I can think of off the top of my head. It also prompted…
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CIX 2010 Submission Deadline
This is your friendly neighbourhood startup spider reminder that the Early Bird Tickets and Submissions to Canada’s Most Innovative Company competition are due tomorrow on October 1, 2010.The 2009 winner was CognoVision and we’ve written about the finalists in…
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The Next 36
The Next 36 is a new program at the University of Toronto that “aims to transform Canada’s most promising undergraduates into high impact entrepreneurs”. The program is founded by Reza Satchu and Tim Hodgson. Mr. Satchu was the…
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Demos announced for DCT27
DemoCamp lineup has been announced: TaskAve Guestlistapp Visibli Top Hat Monocle Data Literacy This is a great set of early stage Toronto and region (Waterloo) based startups. Some of the folks are getting their second shot at a…
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Rypple raises $7m in new round
Rypple has gone public about their latest round of financing which appears to include Bridgescale. Bridgescale’s participation likely came through their acquisition of Edgestone. Edgestone’s GPs participated personally in Rypple’s initial angel round. We will post more as…
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StartupWeekend Toronto recap – 200 people, 13 ideas and 5 winners
This is a guest post by Chris Eben who, along with Karthik Soravanahalli and Ahmed Badruddin, organized StartupWeekend Toronto. Startup Weekend Toronto ended late Sunday night. While I’m still going to need a few days to reflect on…
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Year One Labs "Office Hours" in Waterloo, Toronto and Ottawa
The Year One Labs team will be in Waterloo and Toronto tomorrow, September 28th for “Office Hours” and follow that up with a visit to Ottawa as well (on Wednesday.) “Office Hours” gives entrepreneurs the chance to meet…
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Contest: The Art of Management tickets
Our friends at The Art of Productions have given us 2 tickets to give away. There are tickets to: The Art of Marketing in Montreal on September 30, 2010 The Art of Management in Toronto on November 15,…
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David Crow is moving on from Microsoft
John Oxley outed the news tonight. David Crow, one of the partners in crime here at Startupnorth, will be off the payroll at Microsoft as of the 24th of September. David has spent the last 4 years going…
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How to prepare for a C100 Mentoring session
We gearing up for the next 48 Hrs in the Valley here at C100 global HQ. We’ve learned a lot from previous 48 Hrs events so expect a few surprises, to be announced soon. But in the meantime,…
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Where are the Canadian super angels?
Boris Wertz asks where are all the Canadian super angels? “So when I check Angellist, the most important directory of angels in North-America and Europe, I only find 3 Canadian angels (of a total of 350 registered on the…
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How to pitch to corporate VCs
One way to segment the world of VC is into two camps: (1) financial investors and (2) corporate investors. My guess is that a lot of the VCs lurking around here are what you would call financial investors;…
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Toronto community mourns passing of angel investor
Local angel investor Paul Maasland was murdered, his body was found north of Toronto at a public boat launch. We extend our deepest condolences to Mr. Maasland’s family. And our sincerest concerns go out to his friends and colleagues…
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Year One Labs launches
In case you missed it on TechCrunch, Year One Labs launched today. Year One Labs is a startup incubator/accelerator in Montreal with a great team: Ray Luk, founder of Flow Ventures Ben Yoskovitz, founder of Standout Jobs and NextMontreal…
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DemoCamp with Fred Wilson
Mark your calendars. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures will be keynoting DemoCamp Toronto # 27 on October 6, 2010. How did we pull this off? Well the big shout out goes to William Mougayar at Eqentia, this…
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Startup Weekend Toronto September 24-26
This is a guest post by Startup Weekend Toronto organizer Chris Eben. Let’s build some more startups in Toronto! According to StartupIndex, the GTA has 325 startups – by September 26, we might be able create 10 new startups…