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Business Planning Without Business Plans
| April 15thI recently ran a couple of business planning seminars at the 5th Annual Inventing the Future Conference put on by Young Inventors. Since it was a no Powerpoint affair (yeah!) I… Read More
Business Planning Without Business Plans
| April 15thI recently ran a couple of business planning seminars at the 5th Annual Inventing the Future Conference put on by Young Inventors. Since it was a no Powerpoint affair (yeah!) I… Read More
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RT @bwat: Thank you @NavdeepSBains for your work on supporting Canadian companies and the Angel community through #Covid19! Great to hear your insightful questions on the @NACOCanada "Mobilizing Capital in the New Economy" round-table for @andrewdsouza and @heatherpayne! https://t.co/qljZrngvOv
RT @bwat: Ten years of Angel Data from Canada now! Amazing @NACOCanada! Good to see the new analysis as I believe it will help significantly influence policy as we cope with access to capital challenges brought on by #Covid19! https://t.co/oVfper4RXP
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RT @bwat: Follow-on investment is dominating the Angel landscape in Canada.
RT @bwat: 2019 was a record year in Angel Investiong
RT @bwat: Some interesting insights indeed, like the Angel group market being very mature.
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Students Invent the Future at Young Inventors Conference
| April 13thNobody needs to be reminded how important students are to our startup ecosystem. I started my first Web consulting company in the McGill Music computer lab (which was probably against the rules!) along with two… Read More
Flow Ventures Announces Investment in Symtext
| March 30thWe’re happy to announce that we’ve made an investment in Symtext, a Toronto-based startup. Led by digital media industry veteran Ian Barker, Symtext has created a platform for building “liquid textbooks”… Read More
Students to Startups: A great kick-off event at McGill
| March 27thConnectMcGill, the inaugural tech entrepreneurship event at McGill was a huge success. Two computer science students, Nicolae Rusan and Ladan Mahabadi, had the idea of organizing an on-campus meetup… Read More
Reminder: Startup Drinks this Wednesday!
| March 23rdMark it in your calendar folks: Startup Drinks month at Brutopia (Crescent St, just south of Ste-Catherine), on March 25 from 5:30pm. Look forward to seeing you there! Register now at TechEntreprise!… Read More
Over $1 billion in stimulus for Canadian startups
| March 20thThis is a great time to be building startups in Canada. Ontario and Quebec have recently announced over a $1 billion in funding for new ventures through matching funds and fund-of-funds. There may be more… Read More
March Startup Drinks – Spring Into Action!
| March 17thStartup Drinks is back this month at Brutopia (Crescent St, just south of Ste-Catherine), on March 25 from 5:30pm. Happy hour prices will be in effect and maybe – just maybe – we can… Read More
A method for finding out if you have a painkiller or a vitamin
| March 15thThe more pitches I hear from startups the more I realize that entrepreneurs have a hard time figuring out if their startup is a painkiller or a vitamin. I mentioned this briefly in a previous… Read More
Join a startup! Launching Flow's Startup Jobs site
| March 9thIt’s a reminder of the great little innovation bubble we live in that we always hear about startups trying to grow while the rest of the business world seems to be shrinking. Sure, startups are… Read More
Skills Entrepreneurs Lack: Part 2 – Negotiating
| February 26thAs Monty Python taught us in the Life of Brian, entrepreneurs… Read More