From 2009-2014 StartupNorth had an index of Canadian emerging technology companies and service providers. We have removed this feature.
-
Student Technopreneurship in Alberta
What is technopreneurship? I’m guessing that it’s technology entrepreneurship. The Government of Alberta Advanced Education and Technology has a program for “young entrepreneurs” (crap, I guess by the Alberta definition I’m now old). The program is a business…
-
KPMG Seminar: Thinking of Going Public?
KPMG will be hosting a free seminar tomorrow morning on Going Public. Location: Westin Prince Hotel, 900 York Mills Road, North York, Ontario (Map) Time: 8:00am – 11:00am If your schedule is booked, but you are still interested…
-
Can't we all get along?
As anybody involved with a start-up can attest, they are stressful. With constraints on resources and capital and pressures on time, there are many opportunities for disputes & disagreements to arise between the various stakeholders. Professional mediation, which…
-
Week in Review
240 applications have been sent through jobs.startupnorth.ca so far in 2 months. Glad to see the community is using it. # "On the border, a hard line." http://bit.ly/76jtx3 # RT @davidcrow Looks like next Toronto Founders & Funders…
-
Live notes from DemoCamp24 w/ Gary Vaynerchuk
DemoCamp24 in Toronto is sold out, for those following at home, some live notes: First up: Gary Vaynerchuk: Greatest takeaway: big game is patience, way too many ppl give up right before it’s about to happen. If you…
-
Start-up legal issues: Term sheets from an entrepreneur's perspective
Continuing my discussion on start-up legal issues, I met with Rubsun Ho, partner and co-founder of Cognition LLP to discuss term sheets. Again, standard disclaimers apply in that topics covered today are meant as general information only and…
-
Week in Review
RT @techstars Applications are now open for #Boston! -> http://www.techstars.org/apply # RT @dharmesh How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice http://bit.ly/4qzu33 # RT @markpeterdavis: @NYTech Bootstrapping vs. Venture Funding http://bit.ly/6rblZg # RT @confusement Startup Drinks Waterloo…
-
We have maple syrup and beer
I was reading Anil Dash’s New York City is the Future of the Web post over the weekend, and there is a great list of startups (and funders) based in NYC. The list is pretty impressive starting with…
-
Week in Review
.@innovacorp adds a new investment manager: http://tiny.cc/j1OKO # RT @propelict: Accelerator program expanding : http://bit.ly/1aM5R << Call me when you get the incubator thing figured out 😉 # MIT Startup Bootcamp YouTube Channel http://bit.ly/mitbootcamp features @dharmesh @asmith @rmchase…
-
VeloCity Start-up Day – Dec 1, 2009
We’ve written about the awesomesauce that is VeloCity in the past, and about the Project Exhibition. They have renamed the event Start-up Day. Huge improvement. I’m hoping that the quality of the projects and demos continues to grow.…
-
Start-up legal issues – Intellectual property
I thought I would write a couple of posts on legal issues start-ups should be aware of early in their lifecycle. In particular I wanted to cover some issues, that if not handled correctly, can have a detrimental…
-
Week in Review
New job posted: Sr. Software Engineer (potential for founder level) / Confidential / Thornhill, .. http://bit.ly/3RBrAE # Internet Business Models of the TechStars http://bit.ly/nrirG by @COStartups (make sure you check @pfrisella's http://bit.ly/mVWHZ) # RT @startupcfo: Post: Getting a…
-
Cram-downs and Co-investment
In today’s challenging times it is a strong possibility that companies/investors may be faced with a cram-down financing round. Depending on how well or not well this is handled can have a big bearing on the future success…
-
The Organic Incubator
Amielle Lake has an interesting take on something she’s calling The Organic Incubator. I’ve talked a lot about startup incubators on StartupNorth. Short of being a promotional piece for local Vancouver development shop Invoke Media is short on…
-
CIX Top 20 Announced
It’s a very interesting list of Canadian companies selected for the CIX Top 20. It’s a great showing for our friends at TechCapital Partners with Metranome, OverlayTV and PostRank in the list. As expected for a conference in…
-
Week in Review
Status.Net closes $875K seed financing round – http://bit.ly/KsZVM @msu # Startup Tip of the Week: Your sacred cow will be delicious with some veggie sides # #toronto #startup @filemobile is working with VisionTV to launch new On Demand…
-
The Communitech Hub
Communitech is getting $26.4m from the Ontario Government towards the creation of The Communitech Hub: Digital Media & Mobile Accelerator. “Located in Waterloo Region and serving technology companies provincewide, The Hub will help hardware and software entrepreneurs bring…
-
Interview with John Green of Savvica
I had an opportunity to catch up recently with John Green, cofounder of Savvica, and over an early morning breakfast got schooled on what’s new at LearnHub and JumboTests. StartupNorth: What is JumboTests.com? What’s the relationship to LearnHub.com?…
-
Weekend Reading
RT @startupcfo: What Startups Are Really Like http://bit.ly/lYxnz #ycombinator #startups #reality # Waterloo students launch inPulse BlackBerry watch http://bit.ly/inpulse hope to escape fate similar to Microsoft SPOT http://bit.ly/msftspot # New job posted: SENIOR C/C++ SOFTWARE ENGINEERS (Toronto) /…
-
Impact National Conference & Impact Ventures
Impact Entrepreneurship Group started life as a student group designed to help promote entrepreneurship as a career path. It was started by Kunal Gupta, now the founder & CEO of Polar Mobile. It started as a conference for…