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What makes a startup “disruptive”?
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Mark Evans Tech written by Mark Evans of ME Consulting. Follow him on Twitter @markevans or MarkEvansTech.com. This post was originally published in April 17, 2012 on MarkEvansTech.com. Some rights reserved by Kevin Krejci I had coffee recently with a VC…
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Startup Marketing: Does the Competition Matter?
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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Canada’s Next Five Years
1997-2012: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. 2012-2020: Optimism, Opportunity, Execution. I’ve been bullish for a while now, it’s no secret. It was 5 years ago that I was writing off VC in Canada and explaining how startups needed to step…
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An Interview with Adeo Ressi (and why Founder Institute should be in Canada)
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about incubators. Creating one, mentoring at others, visiting lots and being skeptical of several (I’m not saying which). You can decide for yourself if you think there is an incubator bandwagon being…
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Early stage companies don’t need money, they need customers
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…
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Do Startups Need Community Managers?
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Mark Evans Tech written by Mark Evans of ME Consulting. Follow him on Twitter @markevans or MarkEvansTech.com. This post was originally published in March 26, 2012 on MarkEvansTech.com. Some rights reserved by leg0fenris Do start-ups needs community managers to operate their…
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Nail it before you scale it
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from The Meaford Group written by Peter Smith (LinkedIn). This post was originally published in January 28, 2012 on The Meaford Group. I love working with Robin Hopper, my co-EIR at the Innovation Factory, for…
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5 Steps to an Awesome Executive Summary
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Massive Damage Inc. written by Ken Seto, founder of @Massive_Damage & @EndloopMobile. He is building @PleaseStayCalm, a location based game.. Follow him on Twitter @kenseto where he tweets about Apple, music, games, food, wine &…
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Work-Life Separation and Institutional Funding
I met with a friend this week who has a job. He’s working on a side project with a friend. They both hope to leave their jobs in the near future to work on this new side project…
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Ladies Learning to Code is Not About Women
There is this small but fierce not-for-profit called Ladies Learning to Code. It has pretty straightforward but profound ambitions: “designed to help girls see technology in a whole new light – as a medium for self-expression, and as…
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Toronto Startup Heatmap
Joe Greenwood is directing a new project that pulls together data to track Ontario’s startups. One of the first data sources to be tapped was the StartupNorth Index, which in conjunction with MaRS client data has been crunched into a…
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If you want to change the ecosystem you need to build an amazing startup
At Founders and Funders this week we took some time to interview Dan Debow. It was a bit of a love-in I admit but that is just because I really love how much passion Dan has for helping…
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Ctrl Alt Compete – A startup documentary
Interesting my friends from Microsoft are hosting a screening of Ctrl Alt Compete which features our own Josh Sookman (LinkedIn, @jsookman) of Guardly and Brian Wong (LinkedIn, @brian_wong) of Kiip. It’s a documentary about building startups and the founders passion, fortitude and…
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2011: Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty for Canadian VC?
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Mark Evans Tech written by Mark Evans of ME Consulting. Follow him on Twitter @markevans or MarkEvansTech.com. This post was originally published in February 14, 2012 on MarkEvansTech.com. Some rights reserved by waferboard First, the good news about Canada’s venture capital…
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There are two types of startup incubators in the world: YCombinator or TechStars
Note: This is a guest post by Jesse Rodgers who is a cofounder of TribeHR. Jesse specializes in product design, web application development and emerging web technologies in higher education. He has been a key member of the Waterloo startup community hosting StartupCampWaterloo and…
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GrowConf Super Early Bird Pricing
Register for GrowConf » The Grow Conference just released their first 50 “super early bird” tix at 50% off and sold out in less than a day! StartupNorth was able to secure 20 more “super early bird” tix for…
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Five-tool Players
I loved Moneyball (the movie). I also especially love sports analogies as they relate to technology and startups. While well-blogged about (Fred Wilson, Dave McClure, Dharmesh Shah), I believe these analogies are representative of what it takes to create and…
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Founders & Funders An Update
I think Jevon and Jonas and Karthik are getting sick of running events with me. Before StartupEmpire back in 2008, I ended up in the Emergency Room at Toronto General for another look at my ticker. This week…
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What’s Your Personality Type? Insights for Lean Entrepreneurs
Editor’s note: This is a cross post from Flow Ventures written by Raymond Luk (LinkedIn, @rayluk). Follow him on Twitter @rayluk. This post was originally published on February 1, 2012 on Flow Ventures. The ancient Greek aphorism “Know thyself” is very…