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CIX Top 20 – 2012
We’ve written about CIX Top 20 Follow @CIXCommunity in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. So you’ll be shocked to find that I’m writing about it again in 2012. What is CIX? “The CIX Top 20 is an elite index of the most…
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We want you! – Looking for contributors
Finish Line, CopperDog 150, Calumet, Michigan by Lina Blair I was talking to April Dunford Follow @aprildunford. It’s was a private message, so I am hoping April will forgive me for sharing, but it indicated how Jonas Follow…
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7 Ways To Rock a Startup Accelerator Mentor Day
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by serial entrepreneur and marketing executive April Dunford who is currently the head of Enterprise Market Strategy for Huawei. April specializes in brining new products to market including messaging, positioning, market strategy, go-to-market…
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‘Small’ ideas are not the problem
Editor’s Note: This is a cross-post (possibly some sort of reblogging) from Momoko Price’s blog originally posted on August 13, 2012. Momoko Price Follow @MomokoPrice is a web writer, editor and communications consultant based in Toronto. She runs a…
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Book Review – Startup Communities: It’s About the Entrepreneur
Brad Feld, managing director of Foundry Group, is no stranger to the Canadian tech startup scene – he was a speaker at the C100’s AccelerateMTL event in 2011. Over the past year, I have had the opportunity to get to know him and he…
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Win a Ticket to GrowConf 2012
We at StartupNorth are huge Grow Conference fans. We’ve been lucky to be involved since it’s inception in 2010. There are great industry events around the globe (think Mesh in Toronto, ad:tech in SF and NYC, OSCON in…
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Atoms are the new bits
Today seems to be an Upverter kind of day, don’t believe me. Check out Zak’s post on the Toronto startup ecosystem. Some rights reserved by oskay Hardware startups are back with a vengeance. Thomas Tunguz (LinkedIn, @ttunguz) of Redpoint Ventures…
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Toronto is broken
Editor’s Note: This is a cross post from Zak Homuth (LinkedIn, @zakhomuth) originally published August 7, 2012. Image by John Cavacas link I’ve got bad news. And I don’t really know a better way to say it, so I’m…
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Looking for a direct line to Silicon Valley
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Silva (LinkedIn, @marksilva), SVP Emerging Platforms at Anthem Worldwide. He was in attendance at GrowConf 2011. Some rights reserved by JD Hancock There’s a different business DNA here in Silicon Valley and there’s…
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Looking to get hired by a startup? 10 ways to stand out
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Bruce Dorland (LinkedIn, @brucedorland). Bruce is the Managing Director & Recruiter at Grossman Dorland Recruiting. gdR recruits for permanent and contract positions at all levels, from roles for talented young…
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Why YOU Should Be At Next Year’s StartupFest Montreal
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Onboardly blog written by Renee Warren (@renee_warren) & Heather Ritchie (@heatheranne) of Onboardly. Follow them on Twitter @onboardly or Onboardly.com. This post was originally published in July 14, 2012. @danmartell…
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Meet StartupNorth’s Rich New Benefactor…
Yes, that’s right. Our very own Jevon Macdonald reportedly has sold GoInstant to Salesforce for $70mm big smackers. Forbes – http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/07/09/salesforce-com-reportedly-to-buy-goinstant-for-70m-plus/ Tech Crunch – http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/salesforce-com-reported-to-buy-goinstant-for-70-million/ Somehow missing from the GoInstant story is that they had picked up an…
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June 2012 in Review
Market Analysis & Industry News “2.3 billion people are now globally connected by the Internet. There are 1.1 billion mobile 3G subscribers. Almost 30 percent of all US adults now own a tablet. Mobile is cited as source…
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Thoughts about accelerators
Some rights reserved by archer10 (Dennis) Most people love to just give advice as if it’s set in stone. These thoughts cannot be applied to every startup, use your own judgement and do you own due diligence. Rewind to 2009,…
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Why The Idea is Bigger Than Everything
I was doing some thinking a few weeks ago about why I am a founder. Everyone has different reasons they look to in order to get through the long grind of being a founder. It’s tough and very…
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Microsoft, WPC and Entrepreneurs in Toronto
Did you know that 15,000 global players in the Microsoft ecosystem are descending on Toronto in July? Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is happening July 8-12, 2012 at the ACC and the MTCC. That’s a lot of people building…
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Why I’m a Founder
Dave says we can’t all be founders. He’s probably right. At some point though, I decided that I wanted to be a founder. Lately I’ve been thinking about why it has been so important to me over the…
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Is Code Written To Be Read?
The other day I attended a tech talk hosted by Facebook. Their internal platform team was talking about how they manage the Facebook framework and code base. The presentation was titled “Code Is Written To Be Read”. Immediately…
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We can’t all be founders
Some rights reserved by Swamibu “We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.” – Will Rogers It’s true now even more than when Joe Kraus (@jkraus) wrote in 2005 (original post),…