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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. [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Entrepreneurs, Personal by austin
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Facebook in Reality
I recently added a whole bunch of friends on Facebook by finally scanning my contact folder (which runs about 8k+) with Facebook.
I was pleasantly surprised to see how far Facebook has extended into my business, professional, personal and non-Internet communities. I found about 500 contacts who I wasn’t already friends with.
We all hear about the [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Humor by austin
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Achieving your Dreams
I’ve been away from blogging for a couple of months lately working on my dream, Akoha.
Despite that I had to post this video in honor of Dr. Randy Pausch who died today after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Having lost a family member to a similar type of cancer I felt a personal connection with [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Blogging, General, Personal by austin
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 [...]
1 Comment » - 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 [...]
3 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 [...]
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