From 2009-2014 StartupNorth had an index of Canadian emerging technology companies and service providers. We have removed this feature.
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Last auction for Mighty Bids
Mighty Bids, a Montreal based auction site, is calling it quits and get this… taking the ‘eBay exit’. Pretty ironic given the site’s founders, Peter Michaud and Jeff Ramaglia, routinely criticized eBay seller fees. The site attempted to…
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BunnyHero Widget is Taking Over
adopt your own virtual pet! A big congrats to Bunny Hero (aka Wayne A. Lee), whose widget is topping the charts! comScore’s recently launched Widget Metrix places Bunny Hero Labs in the top five widgets worldwide (and get…
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Reflections on MESH 2007
The MESH gang pulled it off. There were some interesting sessions this year. Jim Buckmeister of Craigslist gave us the inside scoop including the number of pages served per kilowatt hour and why Craigslist will be sticking with…
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Red Flag Deals – 100,000 Registered and Growing
Red Flag Deals has a passionate bunch of users ? they love to save. Founded back in 2000 the site has grown from a handful of page views a month to over 18 million. They recently hit 100,000…
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Infonaut – Mapping Healthcare
Infonaut is in the bird flu business. The Toronto startup (incubated at MaRS) provides governments with a Health Informatics GIS solution for pandemic preparedness and emergency response planning. Plain English: Healthcare Map Mashup, on which one can layer…
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The TVG is dead, Long Live Ventures
The rumors are true, The Toronto Venture Group is no more. The TVG, like the Toronto Angel Group (which is probably dead too, more on this soon), is one of the many often-flirted with, rarely treaded on groups…
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Skymeter takes on Insurance, Tolls, and Meters
Skymeter is set on replacing parking meters, toll booths, and monthly insurance bills. Talk about big aspirations! A prototype location payment system (think GPS black box) has been developed and the Toronto company is forging development relationships from…
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slumberland.ca – Tourism Reservation and Statistics Platform
Planning a summer vacation on Prince Edward Island? You might not know it, but you?ll be booking a B&B using the Slumberland reservation system. And the B&B operator will be reporting their numbers to the tourism marketing authority…
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myhood.ca – Toronto centric apartment aggregator
myhood.ca is a Toronto focused apartment finder and review tool. Considering that the site was launched just 1 month ago, I find it amazing that there are over 900 reviews of various apartment buildings on the site already.…
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easypost.ca – Quick and easy mailing in Canada
Alright, here is one I am not sure what to think about. Easypost.ca is a dead-easy way to send letters anywhere in Canada. Type in an address, type in a letter and they print it and send it.…
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Sunday Startup Roundup – May 20 2007
It was a good week for Canadian startups, especially Club Penguin, who are in talks with Sony for at least 500 million. Not bad for a company from Kelowna, B.C. and that is less than 2 years old.…
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Work Hack – To Do List
Are you a GTD Junkie? Work Hack might be the To Do List you?ve been looking for? Rami Nasser, of Halifax Nova Scotia, had simplicity in mind when he designed this web based To Do List, which has…
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The Startup's Guide to Mesh
So, you are going to make the trip to the Mesh Conference in Toronto? Well, let’s take a look at it from a web startup’s point of view and see what we should, and shouldn’t, be doing. First…
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esy – local price comparison – early stage and ambitious
Esy Shopping is an early stage startup, based in Vancouver that is aiming to consolidate local shopping inventory information online. Esy plans to launch next month, and we haven’t been able to see any screenshots, so I will…
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No Better Time than Now
Every couple of weeks I get asked by someone if I think they should take the leap and really dedicate themselves to their idea. Is it a good time of year? Are they the right age? Do they…
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Off to a great start, thanks!
StartupNorth has gotten off to a great start. We are only just over 2 weeks old but already up to 300 visitors a day and about 80 (give or take) RSS subscribers according to FeedBurner. While these numbers…
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CreateWorkspace: Web Development Environment
Workspace is an Ottawa-based startup co-founded by Obaid Ahmed and Marc Windle. Workspace provides an online collaboration environment for web development projects, allowing for management of many remote servers through a single interface, a built-in editor (no local…
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waka.ca – Real Estate Information Liberation
Waka.ca is a Quebec City (Quebec City has to be one of the most underrated cities in the world) company that provides a real estate search engine. They have already launched for Quebec, and will be expanding significantly…
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Writing a Business Plan?
I am currently writing a business plan because I have a very defined reason for needing it. A particular source of income absolutely needs to see one as part of their process. I am OK with that, but…
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Startup Resources: Innovation Synergy Centre in Markham
I was invited by Catarina von Maydell, formerly of the Toronto Angel Group, to attend a gathering of investors (mostly angel) at ISCM, the Innovation Synergy Centre in Markham north of Toronto. Investors learned about the services that…