Last night, Akoha gave a sneak preview of their product offering to a number of their friends, family and investors in Montreal (disclosure - MSU is an investor).
The founders, Austin Hill & Alex Eberts (along with PR guru Dov) are no strangers to creating buzz and excitement about their projects and once again they made [...]
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Akoha (raises) opens the bar
August 29, 2008 – 10:40 am
Montreal’s startups versus Y-Combinator’s startups … part 2
August 24, 2008 – 9:01 pm
Here are some more of Y-Combinator’s Summer 2008 intake and where appropriate a mention of Montreal companies I am aware of that are competitive or complimentary.
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Montreal’s startups versus Y-Combinator’s startups … part 1
August 17, 2008 – 11:13 pm
Twenty startup’s were in Y-Combinator’s Summer 2008 funding batch. Here is my take on the first half of them (the rest will be in the next post) and where appropriate a mention of Montreal companies I am aware of that are competitive or complimentary.
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Montreal Start Up at Y-Combinator demo day
August 15, 2008 – 10:05 am
I was fortunate enough to be invited down to Cambridge, MA to attend yesterday’s demo day for Y-Combinator’s latest batch of companies.
Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston acted as both the gracious hosts for the event and the concerned parents for the Founders as they exposed their ideas to an external audience for the first time [...]
What have you leveraged today ?
August 13, 2008 – 10:09 pm
It’s rare that we come a cross a revolutionary idea these days. Most of the ideas we see are part of the ongoing evolution of internet based products and services.
Ev.o.lu.tion - A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form.
The evolutionary process employs significant leverage by building [...]