I spent some time last week in London (UK) where I had the opportunity to spend a day at Seedcamp and get involved in mentoring some of Europe’s up and coming web and wireless businesses.
There were 20 companies and about 80 mentors !
Mentors were split into groups of eight and each group spent about 30 [...]
Category Archives: Y Combinator
Seedcamp Mentoring
April 28, 2009 – 5:04 pm
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.
Youlicit
Youlicit automatically generate simple, link only web sites that are supposed to be at least as relevant as those generated by human editors - time will tell if the [...]
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.
Posterous
A hosted blogging platform that allows you to post many different media [...]
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 [...]
‘Tis the season for Feed Capital
January 27, 2008 – 6:38 pm
Philippe Chrun of MyCarPoolStation wrote an interesting post last Fall. It’s a brutally honest assessment of his performance as a first-time founder and CEO of a startup that failed to gain traction. He’s learned some precious lessons in the past 18 months that can’t be taught in school. It’s a pity though, that he had [...]