Archive for September, 2008
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Does this picture make me look fat?
Roberto Rocha wrote a nice article about Akoha’s launch at TechCrunch50 last week for the newspaper which appeared on Wednesday.
He followed up the article with a great post about starting to play Akoha, the faith economy and our Montreal private launch on the Gazette technology blog.
He cites the rule of reciprocation as the key [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Akoha, Humor, Media by austin
Friday, September 12th, 2008
McCain gets Barackrolled while I was at TechCrunch 50
and all I got was a funny video
Seriously I’m just winding down from all the excitement of Akoha’s launch at TechCrunch 50 this week. Spent the day with our team responding to our growing community of players and planning some next steps to respond to the opportunities that came from our launch. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Humor by austin
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Akoha named as a finalist in TechCrunch 50
This blog has been relatively dormant the last 6 months as we’ve been preparing Akoha to be unveiled publicly.
Yesterday Akoha was able to announce that Akoha has been selected as one of the 50 (actually 52) finalists at the TechCrunch50 conference.
I still can’t announce the details of what we have been working on, but you [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Akoha, Canada Tech Scene by austin
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Updating some disclosures & About Me
It’s been overdue, but since I’m going to be using this blog more frequently with Akoha’s impending launch I wanted to update a number of disclosures about my affiliations, relationships and investments.
I’ve posted a new About Me page that now lists some of the angel investments I’ve made, some of the other business relationships I [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Blogging, Personal by austin
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Serial Thrillers - Report on Business
My brother Hamnett and I were on the cover of Report on Business Small Business Magazine last week. The article does interviews with a number of Canadian serial entrepreneurs.
It was fun to do the photo shoot, which involved my brother and I jumping on a trampoline on the roof of the Radialpoint building overlooking Montreal. [...]
