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Round13 Capital puts founders first
What’s interesting about the Round13 Capital announcement today isn’t the size of the fund – they are targeting $100MM. It isn’t the people who are involved – they are amazing. It isn’t the LPs – they are different.…
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Extreme Demo Day
Some rights reserved by szeke Extreme Startups has announced the Demo Day for the first cohort of companies. We’ve written about Extreme Startups in the past, we’ve covered some of the cohort including Shoplocket, and we think a number of…
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Crazy train
On the trip home from a conference last year, it struck me how lonely it was. Yes I talked with people on the train. I had wifi and a phone but I didn’t have anyone who had shared…
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Go big and stay home
Some rights reserved by Darwin Bell Wattpad announced today a $17.3MM raise from Khosla Ventures, Golden Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures and Jerry Yang. This is huge. “It has been recognized as highly significant due to having two top-tier US…
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Meaningful metrics for incubators and accelerators
Editor’s Note: This is cross posted from WhoYouCallingAJesse.com by Jesse Rodgers, who is a cofounder of TribeHR. He has been a key member of the Waterloo startup community hosting StartupCampWaterloo and other events to bring together and engage local entrepreneurs. Follow him on Twitter @jrodgers or WhoYouCallingAJesse.com. Some rights reserved by Nathan…
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Entrepreneurs can achieve anything
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Chris Arsenault, Managing Partner, iNovia Capital. What would happen if you decided to take action by putting 100% of your focus on achieving your goals, or better yet, start with a…
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Hot Sh!t List 2012
Some rights reserved by kyz We have been tracking startups and people for a while. In 2011 was the first Hot Sh!t List, but it won’t be the last. There are a number of amazing individuals in the ecosystem like Mark…
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Canadian VCs are being cut loose, and that’s a good thing
Mark MacLeod just wrote a post about Canadian VC that cuts to the chase If there are any clouds on the horizon, they relate to the disappearance of the US / Canadian border when it comes to VC.…
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Find a cofounder
Some rights reserved by hyfen When Jevon and Jonas and I first met back in 2006 it was because we shared an interest in early stage, emerging technology companies. We were excited to have found other people in Toronto that…
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Not all founders are created equal
Some rights reserved by quapan I was reading an excerpt from Noah Wasserman’s The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) about Founder Dilemmas: Equity Splits and it struck home. Equity…
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How Rob Ford is Failing the Startup Ecosystem
I don’t often look to politicians to help out startups. Typically when they do, they mess it up and make it worse than it was before. And probably if I looked at Rob Ford’s track record of do-little-ness,…
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Hot Sh!t 2012 Nominations
Some rights reserved by chrissam42 It’s been 376 days since I put together the Hot Sh!t List 2011. And we’re looking to round out the list with some the next generation of to be watched entrepreneurs. Who in Canada is…
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Blueseed or Canada?
I was recently asked to comment on Blueseed. And I have not been following the issue very closely. I have held a number of non-resident visas during my stay in the US as a student, employee and entrepreneur. I…
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CVCA, #FFdemoday and AccelerateMTL
Chris Arsenault (LinkedIn, AngelList, @chrisarsenault) sent me a message yesterday about writing about the CVCA conference. And I was looking at the conference trying to figure out why as an entrepreneur that I might want to attend this…
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Spilling the secret sauce
Editors Note: This is a guest post by Cory Mcculloch (Linkedin, @CoryMacculloch). Cory studied law at UofT, works at Brooks Law and was a summer student at Cognition LLP. Follow Cory on Twitter @CoryMacculloch. The following is not legal advice…
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Waterloo’s Next Five Years
Following on with Jevon’s original post of Canada’s Next Five Years, I want to discuss Waterloo. Five years ago, I organized the first StartupCampWaterloo. It built on the great community and open space tools from BarCampWaterloo and focused participants around startups.…
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ShopLocket makes selling online easy
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Katherine Hague (LinkedIn, @katherinehague), co-founder and CEO of Shoplocket.com, a startup that has recently launched and which aims to help people sell anything from anywhere in minutes. Part of our…
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Startup Festival’s amazing lineup
It’s only 76 days (July 11-13, 2012) until Startup Festival in Montreal (are you planning on a roadtrip?), and the team has announced a spectacular set of speakers for the event. Dan Briklin Dave McClure (@davemcclure) Stowe Boyd (@stoweboyd)…
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Mesh 2012 – Last day for Early Bird tickets
Mesh 2012 is set for May 23 & 24 at the Allstream Centre in Toronto. This year brings a special focus on big data, and the lineup is chock full of interesting speakers including: Max Shron – Former Data Scientist at OKCupid. DJ…