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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Entrepreneurs Can Change the World - (Pass it On)
I loved this. It comes at a great time and certainly mirrors my world view & perspective on entrepreneurship.
(found via the great folks at BootupLabs)
6 Comments » - Posted in Entrepreneurs by austin
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
President Obama delivers advice for any student of life
I often get asked by students about how to be an entrepreneur or what courses to take to get into startup life. I won’t dip my toe into the murky pool that is our education system and its shortcomings in educating of the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Students today are graduating into an environment where jobs [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by austin
Friday, May 1st, 2009
Your Entrepreneurial MBA: Summer School begins with Steve Blank & Eric Reis at Startup2Startup
Last month while in the Valley for the Game Developers Conference I dropped in to attend Dave McClure’s Startup2Startup dinner. It’s a great gathering of entrepreneurs and investors. Dave brings in a speaker each month to help share expertise among the attending startups.
The most recent Startup2Startup held last evening featured Steve Blank & Eric Reis.
Steve [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Entrepreneurs by austin
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Made in Canada to stay in Canada - Radialpoint acquires Toronto based Casero
Congratulations to my brother Hamnett, father Hammie & the entire team at Radialpoint. Yesterday they publicly announced that they completed the acquisition of Toronto based Casero.
Here are some interesting facts from the press release,
With the acquisition of Casero Radialpoint’s customer base includes 20 leading ISPs worldwide with direct access to more than 50 [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene by austin
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Why Twitter’s Next Fail Whale can be found on their Recruiting Page
I love Twitter and am fascinated by the ecosystem that Evan, Biz and the team at Twitter have created around the popular microblogging service. While many people on the sidelines are obsessed with when Twitter will make money, I see nothing but great opportunities ahead for the Twitter team. (Disclosure: I’m an investor in Identi.ca [...]
12 Comments » - Posted in General, Talent Search by austin
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Using Twitter & Community to get the most of your SXSW, GDC, Web2Expo
With conference season upon us the Montreal technology community is preparing to descend on a number of very large industry events.
Our community has a number of speakers, attendees & company presentations occurring at:
SXSW Interactive in Austin (March 13-17)
Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (March 23-27)
Web 2.0 Expo (March 31-April 3)
Conferences give us a great chance [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Community by austin
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Incredible use of digital effects shown at TED 2009 - Curious Case of Benjamin Button
In this video Ed Ulbrich from Digital Domain talks about the technology they developed to show Brad Pitt growing younger in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The team won the Oscar for best special effects.
A great example of how technology is allowing our storytellers the ability to create our own view [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Conference by austin
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
My thoughts on Google Profiles
I just setup my public Google Profile - (Look here if you are interested in setting up your own Google Profile)
Suggestions for Google,
I’m sure this is being considered, but vanity URLs optimized for SEO would be great. Instead of http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/100761717775559459217 I’d like to see the profile url be customized like LinkedIn allows (e.g. http://www.linkedin.com/in/austinhill)
Consider auto-suggesting [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Tools by austin
Friday, February 6th, 2009
TED2009 Twitter Guide
Last year at TED I posted a small list of TEDsters who were Twittering the conference.
I hadn’t planned on posting an updated guide of TEDsters & Twitter this year since I assumed that most people would be using http://search.twitter.com to track #TED, TED or TED2009 keywords to track the conversation.
After seeing the recent spike in [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Community, Conference by austin
Friday, February 6th, 2009
TED Balloon Escapes
While checking out the very cool new electric motorcycle developed by the team at Mission Motors today at the TED conference, the TED balloon that was anchored over the conference area decided to take a trip.
This is some video that my friend Loic LeMeur and I happened to grab from two different perspectives.
This is the [...]
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