Last week at Startup Empire in Toronto a couple of people told me they felt that the Montreal startup community was much more collaborative than the Torontonian one. While I can’t comment on things in la ville reine, I definitely agree that people here go out of their way to help one another. Last week [...]
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Cool Start-Up Seeks PHP Developers
August 19, 2008 – 4:44 pm
We often get inquiries from start-ups looking to hire top talent. Usually, we just tap our network of contacts to produce a list of potential candidates. This time, I thought it would be interesting to cast the net a little wider and so I’m blogging about it.
Recently I’ve been asked by two start-ups if I [...]
Community Leaders — The Next Generation
July 29, 2008 – 3:07 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]