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By: Montreal Start Up » Où sont les femmes II

Montreal Start Up » Où sont les femmes II — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:38:59 +0000

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By: Kristina

Kristina — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:37:29 +0000

Hi Everyone!

Just a little head’s up that we (VC-TV…venture cap tv) covered Susan Read’s CATA WIT (Women in Technology) luncheon yesterday (thanks so much, Susan, for a terrific, valuable event! Looking forward to more!) We’ll be holding the three part videocast series on our site (www.vc-tv.biz) as soon as our editor completes his work on it (should be in a little over a week). There were some awesome, impressive ladies present there, and it was a privilege, honor and inspiration to meet them. Very best to you, ladies and the gentlemen, in all your initiatives!

By: Andrée Pelletier

Andrée Pelletier — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:36:05 +0000

Here I come!
Je suis une femme entrepreneure et j’ai un projet de Start-up en développement. J’aimerais bien faire ma place dans ce monde très masculin. Je crois que j’ai une bonne idée dans un contexte tout approprié.
Il me manque l’expérience d’un start-up (avis au mentor potentiel) et du financement (avis aux investisseurs).
À suivre…

By: Susan Read

Susan Read — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:50:11 +0000

I am an exec recruiter and an former VC investor who is also concerned about the very small number of women enterpreneurs and executives in Montreal.

A small group of us have recently formed a Women in Technology Group associated with CATA (Canadian Advanced Technology Association) to encourage and coach / mentor montreal entrepreneures.

Our first event ” La commercialisation de produit” is planned as a lunch session for Nov 8th, and the second event “Symposium sur l’enterpreneuriat” will be held in early February 2008 (we are still looking for speakers for this one).

I would love to hear from anyone who would like to be on our emailing list, or who would like to get involved as a speaker or coach.

Please contact me at Susan@SusanReadTalent.com

By: Kristina Tomaz-Young

Kristina Tomaz-Young — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:10:28 +0000

Hello Gentlemen… and Ladies (as some must certainly be following your postings)

Whoa, hold your horses, last I checked, I am a female and am reading your postings and comments….am just catching up with your discussions as I have been feverishly building my VC-TV start-up in front of and also very much behind the scenes the last months. What you see today at my site is just a prototype of the optimal vision I have in mind. My venture adventures have taken to interesting cities, introduced me to a host of interesting, captivating people in the VC, start-up, advisory and IT world, and limited the number of hours available for a good night’s sleep as I work long (but enjoyable) hours ardently at accomplishing what I have in mind (still tons to do!)

I agree that it would be “genial!” as we say in Montreal to see more female entrepreneurs present themselves. As shown by your comments, we know they exist, that others before them have created phenomenal success stories (some are my role models!) and there are more hidden jewels out there already and to be created – albeit, we should not ignore that female entrepreneurs are finding ways to explore funding sources and network in the biz community in a variety of different ways.

Let’s focus the discussion on ways that can entice those female entrepreneurs out and to get the next generation of women more active and present in start-up ventures. Are you ready for the challenge?

By: daniel

daniel — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:11:52 +0000

Thanks for all your comments and pointing out local entrepreneures. It’s telling however, that a post about women in tech, on a blog about technology startups, only attracted comments from men

John and I are going to have to work on that.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:52:06 +0000

Top 100 women entrepreneurs in Canada: http://www.monroi.com/GP/Docs/W100.xls

Spa Eastman owner (in top 100), Joscelyna Debuc was one of the sponsors of MonRoi’s International Women’s Grand-Prix: http://www.monroi.com/GP

GlobVision is in the same building as MonRoi. It is founded, owned and run by a woman entrepreneur Armineh Garabedian. GlobVision provides intelligent data monitoring and behavior prediction based decision support solutions. http://www.globvision.com/

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:33:24 +0000

Brana Malobabic-Giancristofaro, a women entrepreneur (Saint Laurent, Montreal) who holds B.Sc. in electrical engineering invented and developed energy-efficient wireless sensor network technology. She combined this technology with her patented live chess tournament management to create the MonRoi system. Within about a year since the product launch, live chess matches are followed by 100,000 spectators from over 100 countries at http://www.monroi.com.

By: Mat

Mat — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:35:29 +0000

You’ll find Tara’s article on the topic insightful:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/womenintech/2007/09/17/women-who-risk-making-women-in-technology-visible.html

By: heri

heri — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:58:56 +0000

a montreal, il y a Kim Auclair, qui a lancé macquebec, et Marie Chantale Turgeon, qui fait de son côté créacamp, un democamp reservé aux filles … j’en ai parlé sur mon blogue, on en a débattu tres longtemps lors du dernier barcamp avec Martine Pagé…

sinon a part ca, je pense que les 2 mondes sont vraiment a part a montréal. a moins d aller chercher activement sur le terrain.