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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 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Conference by austin
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
I love our Akoha players - Akoha is at TED 2009
We have been really busy at Akoha preparing for TED2009 next week.
At Akoha this week we just announced a new deck of Akoha mission cards that are inspired by the TED conference & some of the great speakers who have presented there.
If you are interested in joining the beta of Akoha, you can [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Akoha by austin
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
CelebrateCamp 2008 - Shared Holiday Party for Montreal Tech Community
Come out an celebrate 2008 at CelebrateCamp2008 with the Montreal Technology Community.
As a community we have many things to celebrate. A successful year of Barcamps, StartupCamps, Democamps, Podcamps and a host of other community events flourished in 2008. We’ve seen more startups launched, more investing activity and a number of our local [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Montreal by austin
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Congratuations to the 10 Winners of the StartupEmpire Contest
Thank you to everyone who submitted entries to the StartupEmpire giveaway. The quality of the writing and thinking was excellent and it was inspirational hearing so many people wanting to further their entrepreneurial careers. Our hats off to all of you.
While our selection criteria was by no means perfect, we did consider things like the [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Startup Resources by austin
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Mary Meeker’s Techtrends from Web 2.0 Summit
Every year at Web 2.0 Summit, Mark Meeker presents the Morgan Stanley state of the Tech Industry research. Given the incredible changes we are seeing the general economy with a recession having started, uncertain growth prospects and overall stock & economic fallout I think it is important for most companies to to understand how some [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Conference, Entrepreneurs, Fundraising by austin
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
10 Free Entrepreneur Packages for Startup Empire - A Contest
I’m really pleased to be speaking at Startup Empire on November 13th in Toronto. I’m going to be running a hands on workshop for entrepreneurs entitled “Slow down & Speed Up - Managing A Startup in Turbulent Times”.
In my workshop I’ll be sharing some strategies & tools for the following aspects of your business,
Avoiding the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Conference, Startup Resources by austin
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Founders & Funders in Ottawa - I’ll be there.
Ottawa based entrepreneur, Allan Isfan who is founder of FaveQuest (who was also formerly EIR with Skypoint Capital) contacted David Crow and I a few months ago about wanting to bring Founders & Funders to the nation’s capital.
Ottawa has been a long time hot bed of technology activity in Canada, but recently has [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Founders & Funders by austin
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 [...]
5 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. [...]
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