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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 [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Angel Financing, Montreal, Montreal Startup Fund, Standout Jobs by austin
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Capital Innovation 2008
Interlogiq is holding a conference this Wednesday on Angel and technology financing.
I’ll be speaking that afternoon alongside Dan Mothersill from the National Angels Organization. I’ll be speaking about some common myths of entrepreneurs & angels that I’ve encountered to try and shed some light on why these two groups so often fail to connect with [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Angel Financing, Fundraising, Montreal by austin
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Congratulations its a Startup - Canadian Fairchildren Unite
In the last two weeks while I was traveling, two Montreal based companies were acquired by large US companies. In and of itself, this is a great thing to celebrate in our Canadian technology community - but there was something additional worth celebrating in each of these cases.
These companies were co-founded by some of my [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Entrepreneurs by austin
Friday, February 29th, 2008
A Conversation with Sir. Ken Robinson @ TED 2007
One of my favorite talk at TED in recent years was Sir. Ken Robinson’s talk during TED 2006 on how our education system is many times failing to equip children with the tools they need for creativity.
This was particularly relevant to me since I was one of those children who was most often getting sent [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by austin
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Stephen Hawking looses some weight with a flight on Zero Gravity
Peter Diamandis who among his many pursuits was the founder of the X-Prize Foundation just took the stage at TED 2008 and spoke about how he helped organize a weightless experience flight on his Zero Gravity adventures for Stephen Hawking.
It was an incredible short story about how Stephen loved the experience and although they were [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Conference by austin
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Roy Gould - Worldwide Telescope demo @ TED 2008
Originally more famous for tripping on Scoble’s tear jerker switch and much anticipated leading up to TED.
Roy Gould yesterday demonstrated the Worldwide Telescope. It should now be much more famous for the actual project and the TED video which is now available for everyone to see.
1 Comment » - Posted in Conference by austin
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Understanding why TED is so special
A lot of conversations in the blog-us-phere are occurring about the TED conference. Sometimes with appreciation & envy, often times with curiosity about what occurs behind the great videos people have seen online, and at times with a little disdain at the idea of an elitist self-congratulatory meet-up for rich people & celebrities (not a [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Conference, Social Web by austin
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Who’s Twittering from TED
TED is my favorite conference of the year. It’s influenced a lot of what we are doing at our new project Akoha and is the highlight of my conference season.
I’ve arrived at TED and have been tracking who is on Twitter while at TED.
For my friends who are following my TED twitter feed, I [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Conference, Tools by austin
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Angels come out to hit on young entrepreneurs - Les Anges Financiers is Thursday Feb. 28th
Despite the cold weather, Montreal is hot for young entrepreneurs. La Jeune Chambre de Commerce will this Thursday the 28th of February host its 13th edition of Les Anges Financiers. This fast paced evening will give a unique chance to some lucky selected Start-Ups to show off their talent in front of the Montreal Angel [...]
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