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 [...]
Category Archives: Ideas Dept
Akoha (raises) opens the bar
August 29, 2008 – 10:40 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bursting Bubbles
June 30, 2008 – 3:27 pm
Investors love to talk about how they invest in people. For most however, a strong team is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition to fund a start-up. With few exceptions, investors already want the team to be working on a good idea (even though they know it is likely to change along the way). [...]
Où sont les femmes II
May 16, 2008 – 11:38 am
Un gros merci à Austin Hill et Patrick Lauzon pour avoir organisé le deuxième souper Founders and Funders, un événement de réseautage hors pair selon moi, pour ceux et celles qui sont intéressés par le démarrage d’entreprises en TIC.
Parmi les nombreuses discussions de la soirée, une mérite particulièrement d’être répété. Un de mes compagnons [...]