Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Emotional Rollercoasters are only fun when riding with friends
Being part of a startup includes a mandatory ride on an emotional rollercoaster that will find ways to break your nerves and patience, straining every relationship you have at various times throughout the ride.
Startups are powered with emotional rocket fuel, but never seem to lift off in a vertical fashion. Your emotional rocket fuel is actually powering a crazy [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Akoha, Entrepreneurs, Personal, Standout Jobs, Startup Resources by austin
Friday, June 29th, 2007
How did your week feel?
Mine kind of felt like this,
but I’m getting off the plane and the end is in sight…….
4 Comments » - Posted in Personal by austin
Friday, June 8th, 2007
Radialpoint gets some Prophetic Love
I want to congratulate my brother Hamnett, father Hammie and the entire team at Radialpoint who were just honored by Profit Magazine as the fastest growing company in Quebec (measured in 5 year revenue growth) and the 32 fastest in Canada.
This is a great acknowledgement of a lot of hard work done by the entire [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Personal by austin
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Stepping up with Standout Jobs - What’s behind our $1.5 million angel round
I wanted to congratulate my Standout Jobs partners Ben and Fred on the recent announcement of the angel round of financing for our project.
I’m also pleased to welcome our new partner Garage Technology Ventures Canada who is joining me in the financing of the project. As Ben mentions in his post we didn’t originally set out to raise [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Entrepreneurs, Fundraising, Standout Jobs, Talent Search by austin
Monday, June 4th, 2007
What a Mesh of a Week
I spent last week in Toronto where I had the incredible pleasure of doing a keynote discussion at the Mesh Conference with Tom Williams of GiveMeaning and our great friend and Mesh organizer Rob Hyndman.
Our panel was on social change and charity online, and I was a little nervous when I accepted the invitation because [...]
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