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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Akoha announces angel financing round.
I’m very excited to be able to post that we announced our angel financing at Akoha today.
Raising angel financing in Canada has unique challenges that I’ve written about here before. Part of what was most fun about raising this round was the number of incredible investors I was able to meet. Many of them joined [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Akoha, Angel Financing, Blogging by austin
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Profit Magazine on Angel Investing
Kara Aaserud wrote an interesting piece in Canadian Business Profit Magazine about the relationship between angel investors and the companies they invest in.
Ben Yoskovitz, Fred Ngo and I are mentioned in the article.
Combine those two interests, and it’s easy to see why angels often want an active role in management and decision-making. Such a high [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Angel Financing, Standout Jobs by austin
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Founders & Funders 2 Montreal set for May 14
Last summer my friend Patrick Lauzon and I spoke about the need to create a new type of networking event that would bring together founders of technology firms, angel investors and venture capitalists.
We held the first Founders & Founders dinner last November with a private group of 75 people. With the help of our [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Community, Entrepreneurs, Montreal, Montreal Startup Fund by austin
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Montreal Python 2 is Tonight - Thursday April 10th
Illustration by Asaf HANUKA - Logo by Hamish MacphersonIllustration is not an advertisement of the actual attendees or events of Montreal Python.
Akoha and Standout Jobs are once again hosting MontrealPython 2 which is occurring tonight at the Standout Jobs office.
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008 Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm Location: Standout Jobs HQ Street: 3981 St-Laurent [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Montreal by austin
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Check out the Akoha blog for some updates
We are starting to post some more details and information about Akoha on the project blog.
If you are a reader of my blog, I encourage you to also subscribe to the Akoha blog since I will be posting more often on this blog as well as here in the coming months.
Two new posts are [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Akoha by austin
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Entrepreneurs require some failure to succeed - An Interview with Martin Dufort from Kakiloc
Silicon Valley loves risk taking and failure. Canadian investors are risk adverse and scared of funding real innovation.
-Many Canadian Entrepreneurs
This something I hear from many entrepreneurs who lament the challenges of raising capital in Canada. It’s a gross over simplification, but a catchy idea when people are having a hard time raising funds.
It’s true that [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Entrepreneurs, Fundraising, Interview by austin
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
If blogging doesn’t kill you, does it makes you grateful?
Aside from the light hearted April fools day blog posts circulating the web, a so called serious media outlet reported on the dangers of blogging with this gem of an article that appeared in the New York Times this weekend. The article gives us dire warnings that bloggers can kill themselves with the stress of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Blogging by austin
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Mike Arrington vs. Facebook Lawsuit - Becoming an Expert Witness
In light of Mike Arrington’s and TechCrunch’s lawsuit against Facebook for $25 million based on Facebook’s use of Mike’s image in social ads someone needs to shed the light on the real issues of privacy on the Internet.
Given my history of working on privacy issues, and the fact that Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Humor by austin
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Local Warming poses danger to Canadian innovation - Affecting the seeds of innovation
Yossi Vardi, one of the grandfathers of the Israeli tech industry has this dire warning on the dangers of local warming and how this could be affecting Canada’s seeds of innovation.
If you are a blogger, tech executive or part of Canada’s growing tech community & glued to your laptop - this is an important message [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Humor by austin
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Montreal Startup angel fund launches - Announces Standout Jobs investment
I’m incredibly proud to be part of the new Montreal Startup fund that launched this week.
Montreal Startup is a new $3 million dollar angel-backed seed fund, that is run by John Stokes & Daniel Drouet. Both John and Daniel are very active in the local startup community and did an incredible job in securing the [...]
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