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Index

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

  • Learn to get burned

    Picking co-founders and early employees will always be one of the scariest things you do. Even as you are doing it for your 3rd, 4th, 5th of 15th time, you never feel like you are getting better at…

  • John Philip Green joins CommunityLend

    Big news in the Toronto startup community today. John Philip Green, one of the founders of LearnHub.com, has joined CommunityLend.com as CTO. We have covered CommunityLend in the past as they have worked around regulatory hurdles to become…

  • iStopOver and PlanetEye merge raising $3M

    iStopOver, the peer-to-peer accommodation rental marketplace incubated by Brightspark, has merged with PlanetEye, the interactive travel guide spun out from Microsoft Research – in the process raising a round of up to $3M from GrowthWorks and JLA Ventures, PlanetEye’s original…

  • Lessons from C100 Mentoring in Toronto

    We wrapped up another amazing C100 Mentoring (C1M) session the other week with mentors in San Jose talking live and in-person to a group of great companies in Toronto via Telepresense. As with all of these “TP” meetings,…

  • Week in Review

    RT @enoss: startups create > jobs than bigcos govts need put jobs>contributions take note @mpjamesmoore & @CRTCgcca http://bit.ly/bzTSRZ # CFOs in a startup need to OWN the cash problem http://bit.ly/baUSGg by @fdestin cc: @startupcfo # New Event: Toronto…

  • Open House at Bootup Labs

    Jevon, Jonas and I are all heading to Vancouver for Grow Conference happening Aug 19-21, 2010. But I’m hear in Vancouver hanging out at Bootup Labs. Bootup Labs is holding open office hours this week. Basically if you’re…

  • NextMontreal.com launches – "news and opinion on technology and startups"

    NextMontreal.com is going live today. It is the result of a push by Ben Yoskovitz to create a new source of information for the Montreal community after MontrealTechWatch went dormant over a year ago. Why now? When first…

  • Week in Review

    RT @joshdavey: Burstn is a recommended app in iTunes right now under photography. http://bit.ly/bjvgaM #toronto #startup # RT @DoAndroidsDream: Share: Q&A on Micro-VC Funds, With Someone Who Actually Invests In Them http://bit.ly/cTUPwB # made up stat of the…

  • EmpireAvenue raises seed funding from W Media Ventures

    EmpireAvenue, the world’s first influence stock market, where you can buy and sell virtual shares in your friends and brands has raised it’s first round of seed financing from W Media Ventures. Something hinted at in yesterday’s City of Champions…

  • Hanging out in the City of Champions

    One of the first things that strikes you as you are driving in to Edmonton from the airport, besides how long the drive is, is the entrance sign to the city. It is declared the “City of Champions”,…

  • Week in Review

    Woah! Congrats to PartSelect on a new redesign! http://bit.ly/bPsxMI # RT @byosko: StatusNet raises new financing round led by FirstMark Capital in New York: http://bit.ly/99H8JC # RT @rogerchabra: $20MM financing for Montreal-based @Accedian (Rho Canada) led by top…

  • CanCon 3.0

    I was doing some evening reading I came across and interesting  thought on the intersection of social networks and content: Media is fast-becoming an important area for the social network. The news feed, long a place for friends…

  • Week in Review

    New job posted: Senior Software Developer / Bering Media / Toronto, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/9Aiwwu # New job posted: Intermediate Software Developer / Bering Media / Toront, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/bhWN8t # Screenscape adds Foursquare support. Cool http://bit.ly/aXW85x # New…

  • Finding a future for Venture Capital in this country

    I wrote a guest piece for The Mark News this week, which was published today. I tried to look at some of the endemic problems which gave us our last swell of Venture Capital funds in Canada, why…

  • Week in Review

    RT @fredwilson: We Are Discussing Opportunity Costs On #mbamondays today http://bit.ly/atNUfY #mustread # New job posted: iPhone/iPad/BlackBerry/Android Developer / Homick / Waterloo, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/9iKVNf # New job posted: SharePoint Developer / Questrade / Toronto, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/9ZQ1mp…

  • Conspiracy theories and hockey talent

    The brain drain. Canadian actors in Hollywood. This was a common thread for a in Canadian media outlets. But there is something new going on in tech north of the border. International corporations have been snapping up Canadian…

  • My favourite flavour Vanilla Forums

    Congratulations to the team at Vanilla Forums. In the past year they’ve attended TechStars in Boulder, moved to Montreal, and released version 2 of Vanilla Forums. What is Vanilla? “Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able, pluggable community…

  • A year in the life

    Happy 1st Birthday Guestlist! Guestlist has had a couple of weeks. On July 12, 2010 they launched their paid service which finally allows the company to generate fees for the great service they provide. We started using Guestlist…

  • State of VC in five years?

    Canada has a great financial sector, a growing economy, tons of smart people and a bunch of pretty snazzy exits recently. Yet, with all this Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association still predict that the number of VC…

  • Week in Review

    RT @jrodgers: StartupCampWaterloo9 July 14 supported by @freshbooks @Rypple and @ACWaterloo it will be fun! http://bit.ly/bmEXmR # RT @aprildunford: blog post: Vertical Marketing 101 http://bit.ly/cvlHTC #prodmgmt #mustread # RT @hnshah: 5 ways engineers are like hot chicks http://kiss.ly/cfVvO8…