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Weekend Reading – July 5, 2008
Loyalty Match, who pitched at StartupCamp Toronto, got written up in The New York Times. Don’t walk into a VC’s office naked… of course, you already knew that. Every once in a while you need to step off…
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Y Combinator Accepting Winter 2009 Applications
Y Combinator is now accepting applications for the winter 2009 funding cycle happening in Mountain View, CA. It’s possible for Canadians to get accepted to the Y Combinator program. All of Canada is following the exploits of Michael…
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Stop waiting for your big idea, learn to get shit done
I hear from a lot of would-be entrepreneurs that they are just waiting for the right idea, or that they want to do more research on their idea, or that they need to “flesh out” their idea in…
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Ten Web Startups to Watch
Technology Review has published a list of Ten Web Startups to Watch. Pinger Pownce Qik Dash Navigation Ushahidi.com QTech 33Across Peer39 Mashery Anagran Interesting list of companies. There is a mix from social networking platforms to packet filtering.…
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Conceptshare launches new desktop companion
Sudbury, Ont. based Conceptshare launched a new desktop companion application today to make it easier to keep track of your Conceptshare workspaces. Conceptshare, who we have covered a few times before have been constantly improving their product and…
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Identi.ca – Open Source Microblogging
You know everything you hate about twitter? Downtime, walled garden, some very poor design in places, etc. Well a solution launched today that seems to be technically superior in every way, but is going to be facing a…
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Dan McGrady: 7 Reasons Why My Social Music Site Never Took Off
Dan McGrady has been on a roll with some great posts lately, and “7 Reasons Why My Social Music Site Never Took Off” really grabbed my attention yesterday. Dan started Contrastream last summer. I liked the site a…
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Weekend Reading – June 28, 2008
The Competition Policy Review Panel, released a report advocating the Federal Government should lower barriers to foreign investment, liberalize foreign ownership restrictions in a number of industry sectors, and open the border to talented immigrants. Amen! Praized announced…
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The Who, What, Where, When & Why of Y-Combinator. An Interview with Michael Parkatti & Michael Marrone
Jevon and Jonas recently offered me the opportunity to interview two teams of Canadians currently attending Y Combinator for Startup North. Y Combinator is a seed-stage funding firm that combines money, advice and connections with a 3 month…
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Y Combinator, three weeks in.
“When it comes down to it, we really just want to launch as soon as possible ? the absolute best way to learn about the efficacy of your product is to have people actually use it.” Michael Parkatti…
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Weekend Reading – June 21, 2008
Mike McDerment, CEO of FreshBooks, on why entrepreneurs are artists. Montreal StartupDrinks June 25. Ottawa startups can apply to present at the Ottawa Venture Summit. Interested in your startup being the subject of a case study? Ping David…
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Hostopia acquired for $124M
Hostopia (TSX: H) has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Deluxe Corporation (NYSE: DLX) for $124M. Hostopia, with operations in Toronto ON, Miramichi NB, and Ft. Lauderdale FL is in the business of providing private label…
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17 Mistakes Start-ups Make
John Osher discussed What Not To Do: 17 most common mistakes start-ups make and how to avoid them in Entrepreneur Magazine. Each of the mistakes are a topic on their own, for example, I?ve trying to provide examples…
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Zoomii – Book Browsing
Chris Thiessen just launched Zoomii, a new site for browsing best selling books available on Amazon. Chris has been building Zoomii for 16 months and he did it all with his own two hands. Quite a long haul…
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It's not you, it's me!
We are working away on a few new things, I have been wrangling some new co-authors and have been generally thinking about the direction of StartupNorth. It feels a lot like what Heri has been thinking about lately.…
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Weekend Reading – June 14, 2008
Startup Leaders: Are you a Missionary or a Mercenary? An issue close to all our hearts… Regulation, Monopoly, and The Beer Store. SmartHippo is looking for a Ruby on Rails Developer. TinEye released Plug-ins for IE and Firefox.…
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$205M Ontario Venture Capital Fund
Funding for emerging Ontario companies dropped from $1.5 billion in 2000 to $236 million in 2007. The number of Series A rounds has reached a 12 year low. Clearly there is a problem, one with long term implications.…
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Follow a Canadian Startup Story
Michael Parkatti and Michael Marrone, both from Calgary, have recently gone to Cambridge, Massachusetts to join the latest group of startups at YCombinator. They will be keeping a diary on globeandmail.com as they go through the journey of…
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Lessons in Social Media, with MediaScrape
We have covered MediaScrape a few times, and when I joked that they might be the next Capazoo, their CEO came through with a great reference to Cocain. Well, they are back. Since this post is not an…
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NYC Seed versus IAF
Wow, NYC Seed is an interesting fund focused on seed-stage technology companies in NYC. It sounds familiar to the IAF program by the Ontario Centres for Excellence. The NYC Seed fund is a joint venture between ITAC, New…