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StartupCamp Toronto – Second Release of Tickets
The second release of tickets are now available for entrepreneurs. We will also be opening up new slots for service providers. Things are really coming together for StartupCamp, a big thanks to everyone who has offered support so…
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Cover Your …
Let’s face it, most entrepreneurs break all kinds of rules (the law is no exception). Starting a business is risky and time consuming; when your immediate survival is determined by your burn rate, the quality of your product,…
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Angel financing – What angels look for in a company: Market size and revenue model (part 2 of 6)
In the last article, we discussed how you would go about describing your company’s product or service. Now that potential investors have a clear idea of what your company does, you need to show them the potential for…
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BlitzWeekend: Launch a Startup in a Weekend
We were going to make a post about BlitzWeekend, but what’s better than information straight from the source? Here is a guest post from Heri, a co-organizer of BlitzWeekend, with all the details. BlitzWeekend (organized by Heri Rakotomalala,…
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TimmyOnTime – Time Management via Instant Messenger
I am pretty sure the one tool I would not give up these days would be Instant Messenger. All of my closest business partners and customers are on either GTalk or MSN (with GTalk being far and away…
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$7,500,000 Series B and New CEO for xkoto
GrowthWorks and GrandBanks Capital have announced a $7.5M Series B investment in xkoto. The startup, based in Toronto, is a leading provider of database load balancing solutions. The funding will be used to expand support of multiple database…
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CakeMail launched their public beta last weekend at BarCamp Montreal. The company, founded by serial entrepreneur Francois Lane, is only offering email marketing services through resellers, a pretty contrarian bet in a ?direct from the source? era. It…
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Savvica Languify – Don't Sleep, Release!
We covered the return of Savvica earlier and expected we’d hear from them soon. I was thinking more like 5 or 6 months, but instead today we see that Languify, a crowd-sourced translation service, has gone live. It…
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StartupCampToronto 1 – Now taking submissions
We have 3 slots remaining for startups to present at StartupCampToronto and we have decided to let the audience vote on who those companies will be. StartupCamp is almost completely sold out, and in looking over the list…
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StartupCamp Toronto – December 6th
Update #5: All tickets are currently sold out. We plan to release any remaining tickets this coming Friday at 2pm ET. Update #4: 4 Service Provider tickets remain. Some people have been asking why we service providers are…
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Investment Banking for Startups – Q1 Capital launches Private Investor Network
Raising funds for a startup is a full time job. As Craig Hayashi of Maple Leaf Angels pointed out in his recent posts, it can easily take 6 months to raise an angel round. Fortunately, there are options…
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JobLoft makes an exit
JobLoft, the Toronto-based company at the center of the Dragon’s Den soap opera last year has finally been paid their due. In a move that both shows how much you do not want investment from the Dragon’s Den,…
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Angel financing – What angels look for in a company: Product and pain point (part 1 of 6)
In the next series of articles, I will walk through the main areas that angels evaluate when assessing a company for investment. As discussed in a previous article, there are distinct phases you will need to go through…
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Delusions of Facebook – Should you be a Facebook Startup?
You can’t deny it: Facebook Applications have been a hot topic from the day the Facebook API was announced 5 months ago. Early success stories spread quickly, and the app-installation-fever that most users went through was overwhelming. Invitations…
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StartupCamp Waterloo – This is just getting started
Jonas Brandon, David Crow and I made the trip from Toronto to Waterloo last night to attend StartupCamp Waterloo. Despite over 2 hours in traffic on the way there, we were happy that we went. What a great…
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Angel financing – Who are angels and what are their motivations (part 2)
When you are making a pitch & ultimately getting angel investors on board with your company, its important to know who you are dealing with and what their motivations are. During a general pitch presentation to a room…
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Super-enterpreneur: Anthony Carbone, MadWhips
By day, Anthony Carbone is an engineer at DuPont Canada. But from 6pm to 2am, he’s his own man. Not only does he travel back to his old university town, Guelph, to grow his property management firm, but…
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Clay Tablet Technologies – Translation Middleware
Clay Tablet Technologies, a Toronto, Ontario company made a few interesting announcements today. The first is that they are partnering with SDL as a partner to allow SDL clients to glue their translation technologies in to content management…
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SlashID – Federated Identity Management
SlashID launched today. The Toronto, Ontario based company is entering a market that has slain giants such as Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and IBM among others. This is also the same general market that Vancouver-based SXIP is competing in,…
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Angel financing – How to work the pitch process (part 1)
In my next two articles, I will talk about pitching for investment money. In this article I will talk about the stages in the pitch process. When pitching to angels through an organized angel group, there is a…