At Montreal Start Up we are happy to sit down with anyone who is thinking of launching a tech business out of Montreal, whether they are looking for funding or not.
Most of the entrepreneurs who come to us are first timers who have an idea or sometimes, a beta product, but are still a [...]
Category Archives: Ideas Dept
Startup School
April 14, 2008 – 5:30 am
Grokking the ad driven business model
February 17, 2008 – 3:34 pm
I’m not a fan of the “drive traffic to a site and monetize via ads” business model. Too often it feels like all the creativity and effort goes into monetization, with building a truly great product or service merely an afterthought. That being said, there are plenty of startups that have created valuable offerings for [...]
Web startup funding
October 8, 2007 – 1:04 pm
I’ve been taking advantage of the long weekend to catch up on my reading and came across this article over at Read/WriteWeb. It’s interesting, not so much because of the points it makes (these points have been covered previously by others, including here), but because these ideas surrounding the funding of web startups now seem [...]
Où sont les femmes
September 19, 2007 – 6:11 pm
Dernièrement j’ai entendu parler d’une startup qui venait de recevoir du financement pour offrir conseils et produits de beauté/santé en ligne. Ça semblait évident comme marché, mais je n’y avais jamais pensé. C’est à ce moment que je me suis rendu compte qu’aucun des plans d’affaires qu’a reçu MSU ne ciblait les femmes. Pas un [...]
A lire
August 13, 2007 – 6:43 pm
Je viens tout juste de terminer l’excellent Founders at Work: stories of startups’ early days de Jessica Livingston. Le concept est simple : 32 entrevues avec les fondateurs de startups ayant connus un grand succès. Si la formule est simple, l’exécution est particulièrement réussie et nous fait vivre l’émotion des premiers jours de compagnies [...]