Maybe it’s just the summer, but I get the feeling that things have slowed down in the local start-up community of late. Fred helped get things started by organizing the first BarCamp. Ben launched the Tech Entrepreneur Breakfasts, Sylvain being Sylvain was everywhere and Heri made sure everyone knew what was going on. These guys [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
What about the other 89?
July 23, 2008 – 1:18 pm
In my last post I mentioned that MSU looked at 94 potential investments in the last few months but only five got us excited. So, what was wrong with the other 89?
While we don’t expect any company to be perfect, we do expect it to have at least two things going for it. First, the [...]
Keep it simple !
July 18, 2008 – 2:47 pm
We come across many interesting ideas for products and/or businesses but more often than not it requires a lot of digging around to actually to find that gem of an idea.
Maybe that digging is part of the value an investor in start-up’s is expected to add, but as an entrepreneur it pays if you can [...]
Six months, 94 proposals, 5 gems, 3 deals.
July 15, 2008 – 3:03 pm
One of the questions I’m most often asked at Startup networking events is “What’s going on with Montreal Start Up?” so I thought I give the community a little update.
John and I first started thinking about MSU less than 18 months ago. As it took about nine months to close the first fund, we’ve [...]