Category Archives: Marketing Dept

Nouveau fonds pour le démarrage d’entreprises en technologie

March 11, 2008 – 1:43 am

Le fonds bénéficiera de l’appui d’une vingtaine d’anges financiers et d’entrepreneurs montréalais qui ont réussi dans le domaine.
MONTREAL, Québec, 10 mars 2008 – Montreal Start Up, un spécialiste du capital de démarrage, dont la mission est d’appuyer les entrepreneurs montréalais qui bâtissent les succès de demain, a aujourd’hui annoncé le lancement d’un premier fonds de [...]

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New seed capital fund for Montreal’s technology entrepreneurs

March 11, 2008 – 1:35 am

Fund aims to capitalize on the committed support of twenty of Montreal’s most successful entrepreneur and angel investors.
MONTREAL, Quebec, March 10, 2008 - Montreal Start Up, a venture investor dedicated to supporting Montreal based entrepreneurs in their quest to create and build successful companies, today announced the closing of its $3 million venture capital fund, [...]

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We’re in stealth mode!

February 17, 2008 – 11:13 pm

Anyone one who knows us well may have wondered why our friend Roberto Rocha described MSU in yesterday’s Montreal Gazette as:

"…an agency that encourages successful entrepreneurs to become angel investors."

Whilst this is accurate (and provides material for another blog post, to come shortly), it’s not the full story … because we are in stealth mode [...]

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2008 - The Year of the Individual !

January 3, 2008 – 11:37 am

The start of a new year is often seen as both a time for reflection and for looking to the future.
On reflection I recognise two major movements in Montreal in 2007:

The "self activation" of Montreal’s entrepreneurial community - primarily through Barcamps, Democamps and Tech Breakfasts.
The closing of the gap between the franchopone and anglophone entrepreneurial [...]

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Stealth Start-up’s in an Open Source World

December 14, 2007 – 5:23 am

I hadn’t heard anyone talk about a “Stealth Start-Up” for a month or two but when someone recently used the term to describe the current stage of their internet based business (or should I say project) I once again chuckled.
“Why chuckle?” you ask.
Well - to want or need to operate in stealth mode means 1 [...]

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