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Bulls*%t, Next Slide…
| June 19thWe had an entertaining speaker at last night’s meeting of Anges Quebec. Andy Nulman of Airborne Mobile and Just for Laughs fame, spoke about his experiences as… Read More
Bulls*%t, Next Slide…
| June 19thWe had an entertaining speaker at last night’s meeting of Anges Quebec. Andy Nulman of Airborne Mobile and Just for Laughs fame, spoke about his experiences as… Read More
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Great to see @potloc_mtl , a member of the @flowventures family, on @CP24 talking about the public opinion research they did re the King Street West pilot project in Toronto! ow.ly/bCZB50jPFNO
A big congratulations to our friends at @XenAccounting and @ryanlazanis on the acquisition by @equiomgroup - wonderful to see friends of @flowventures do well! ow.ly/8z8L50jIqrL
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US insurance giant Travelers acquires majority stake in Zensurance betakit.com/us-insurance-giant… congrats to @zensurance @SultanSpeaks and @dyusuf !!
Packed house at the Globe and Mail Small Business Summit! CEO of Kicking Horse Coffee, Elana Rosenfeld @KckngHrseCoffee on stage being interviewed by Sarah Efron @Sarah_Efron, Small Business Editor of the Globe and Mail. Looking forward to being part of the next panel! #sbs18
The Applied AI Panel at #BDCFinTech going well. Interesting perspective re using customer data properly when rules are evolving: “Act with a sense of empathy. Would you want your data used in this way?”
Can't wait to speak at the Globe and Mail Small Business Summit on May 8th - Join us! ow.ly/vk3J30jxJe5
Looking forward to the #BDCFintech 2.0 Summit next week! For startups, see the below image for a discount code to join @flowventures and many of the top FinTech minds at this summit. Was great last year!
Join the Toronto startup community for a drink tonight at @StartupDrinksTO ! Details at: ow.ly/njX230jcl0c
More From Our Blog
June Startup Drinks + Montreal Girl Geeks
| June 9thStartup Drinks has joined forces with Montreal’s Girl Geeks to bring you the networking juggernaut of the summer! On location will be another fine installment in the Montreal Girl Geek speaker series featuring… Read More
Lead to Win: An Open source Business Accelerator
| June 8thHere’s an interesting idea: take a city that is experiencing high-tech job loss, create a program that helps laid-off workers create startups, run it like a summer school program using local experts, charge nothing for… Read More
Competitive Analysis for Startups: Being Better, Not Just Different
| May 25thIn the last post I talked about the goal of competitive analysis. In this post I’ll talk about why (and when) it’s ok to compete head-on. Let’s review why startups spend so… Read More
Competitive Analysis for Startups: The Goal
| May 22ndOne of the hardest things for emerging companies to get a handle on is analyzing the competition. Investors grimace when we hear “there is no competition” because outside of the world of patents, it’s just… Read More
Startup Drinks – May 27, 2009
| May 19thIt’s great to see so many startup enthusiasts out in force and we’re set to do it all again, as we do on the last Wednesday of every month. You are most welcome to bring… Read More
A Follow Up On Project Olympus
| May 18thThere was quite a lot of interest in our post about Project Olympus, the startup incubator at Carnegie-Mellon University. I think it’s a (good) sign that many people are trying… Read More
Project Olympus: A University Incubator That Works
| April 28thIt’s rare that I come across a tech incubator that can claim any more success than the square footage they’ve rented out. It’s not that incubators can’t work, it’s that most confuse office space with… Read More
Reminder: Startup Drinks al fresco, Wednesday, April 29
| April 27thCome on out this Wednesday, April 29 from 5:30pm to Brutopia (Crescent St, just south of Ste-Catherine) for beers and startup mayhem. The terrasse will be in full effect! All are welcome!… Read More
Startup Drinks April Edition: Next Wednesday
| April 22ndDepending on weather, next Wednesday could be the first “Patio Edition” of Startup Drinks. Hope to see you there and please spread the word! The details: Startup Drinks at Brutopia (Crescent St, just… Read More