I met with Peter from DailyDinner.tv and I was delighted to hear about his entrepreneurial story. He did not have any previous experience in programming, video editing nor starting up a business, but he is an example of a true entrepreneur who is self-reliant and … Read More →
Category Archives: Startups
Sametags.com – Relevant Twitter Search Engine
I met with Alain Lavoie and Nicolas Gosseline and they have this great Twitter Search idea of using relevant data from Twitter to display relevant profiles for the subject you are looking for. Differently from other searches, it uses more “sticky” data such as the … Read More →
QuantumWhisper.com – The Missing Link Between User Feedback and Code
I met with Barry Pâquet and I was very impressed and amazed by his story of how he started up his company. He was working as a consultant for another software company and eventually, he had a great opportunity to come up with a product … Read More →
Habit Shaper – a goal and habit-tracker
The Startup Camp 6 in Montreal was a great event and I could see some very promising entrepreneurs and startups. The scene in Montreal is hot currently and it was a great experience to mingle in the community. My first blog post about what happened … Read More →
Startup: Kwedit – a promising way of payment, how about Habbo?
Kwedit is a strange name for a payment company. This is a startup that offers a new form of payment to social and interactive games that allows people to buy virtual goods. The strange thing is that it allows people to “promise” to pay for … Read More →
Spudaroo.com – an outsourcing marketplace for documents in general
Spudaroo.com is a website that allows people to pay 3rd parties to create website documents, business plan, blog content, slide presentation, and even resume for lazy people. This is a Canadian startup and I wonder how effective is to outsource this type of work to … Read More →
Bookhu – Top books for women and men
Bookhu is a book review website that shows if a book is read more by men or women. It is a food for thought website. It shows if I have more male or female preference. In my searches, most of my books related to entrepreneurship, … Read More →
Another Great Startable Tip: Making a great business plan pitch
I should be studying for my final exams, but I couldn’t resist reading posts from Startable. This time, they are sharing a neat and simple framwork to make a great business plan pitch. After reading it, it actually gives us tips to how to write … Read More →
Penzu, an inverted Blog system
This is strange. A Canadian company created a blog system that provides private blog posts as a default choice. This means that users of this blog system will create their blog post privately and not sharing to other people. This defeats the notion of blog … Read More →
Startup: Sprouter is a entrepreneur social network
Sprouter is a social network that connects entrepreneurs around the world. It is one of those website for grass-rooting campaigns for entrepreneurs to share their ideas. I’m not sure if that’s effective given that there are many social network dedicated to the same thing. Share … Read More →
Tinychat.com – Live video chatroom
Tinychat provides free video and audio chatroom for the mass. People can use this tool as a DJ room, virtual meeting presentation room or live interactive TV. I like this website because it’s free and for startups, this tool can connect our team member even … Read More →
InterClick, the “Pure-Play” Ad Network Raises $18.1 Million (ICLK)
InterClick is a company that provides traditional approach of supply chain methodology into optimization of ROI over advertising spending. I’m writing this post because I’m so impress that the market has so much appetite for advertising systems and tools and ad networks. Basically, it treats publishers and … Read More →
Zynga gets another $180 million, expect more game addicts on Facebook
Zynga is the company responsible for all those spam like games, such as FarmVille or MafiaWars. All these games are targeted to Facebook and they make money by showing advertisements. All these social type of games target the very basic human emotion of achievement. Most … Read More →
Venture Capital Firms in Brazil, 2009
This is a special blog post dedicated to Brazil’s venture capital firms. Before getting into the list, I want to make it clear that private equity investments are much stronger than venture capital investments. There may be four reasons for a small venture capital market … Read More →
Square up – micro-payment in mobile devices
Square is a startup based in San Francisco and promised to revolutionize the payment for small and medium size companies. It provides an almost free add-on to your iPhone, so you can slide your customers’ credit cards and the iPhone will take care of the … Read More →
Stribe fast response to my previous post about its product
I am very impressed and glad by the speed that Stribe has replied to my post. A good entrepreneur should be able to react to the current dynamics of how people comment and make opinions about his product. A fast reply like that is a … Read More →
Stribe – the top startup from Le Web 2009?
People from the Le Web 2009 in France was making such a fuss for Stribe. Stribe is a company puts a social network bar in your website. Basically, people who are signed in to the Stribe network will be able to have social network experience … Read More →
Pitch tips for venture capital meetings from Startable
This is another great post from Startable about pitching tips for venture capital meetings. Healy organized and shared all posts in one single place for easy access. I will remember to read this for my New Venture Project final meeting. VC Pitch Tip #1 – Turn … Read More →
Make Your Own Shirt, Mug and Many Other Things Companies
It is hard to make money on the Internet. Currently, there are two famous ways to monetize on the Internet: advertising and e-commerce. In the advertising side, we have Google AdWords, Yahoo Marketing or Microsoft Advertising. These companies make money by having big audience that … Read More →
Canada’s Venture Capital Firms – December 2009
Thanks for Dan M., JS C., Mark E. and Tim T. for your suggestions! This is a complete list of all the VC firms in Canada. JS made a good suggestion of adding of which firms invested in the last 12 months. I will add … Read More →
Resources to support Entrepreneurs
MIT Open Course Ware Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends Early Stage Capital Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager Entrepreneurial Marketing Entrepreneurial Finance Listening to the Customer Pricing The Nuts and Bolts of … Read More →
TiE Young Entrepreneurs Business Plan Competition 2010
I love this competition. It is one of the firsts business competition towards students from 9-12. This business plan is hosted by Carolinas – The Global Network of Entrepreneurs and the award for the winning team is USD 10K. It is important to foster this … Read More →
The fifth edition of Startup Camp Montreal
For all of those interested in startups, there is going to have an interesting event for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on October 15th 2009 in Montreal. Here are the details: Date : October 15th, 2009 Time (Unconference session) : 3pm to 6pm EST Time (Standard … Read More →
Recipe for a Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurs
I’ve just read news from Revista Exame, a prestigious Brazilian weekly magazine, which talks about the new generation of entrepreneurs in Brazil. According to it, there are 10 million of Brazilian entrepreneurs and the new generation of entrepreneurs are creating companies because they believe they … Read More →
Twitter’s founder: Evan Williams
I became aware of Evan Williams from Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. He had a great and very interesting story about how he founded Blogger and all the hardship he had with it. I think one of the most interesting point is … Read More →
Startup Camp 6 Montreal – Pictures
Yesterday, I was in the Startup Camp 6 Montreal and it was an amazing experience to meet with highly motivated people in the Montreal’s community. It makes entrepreneurship to be highly contagious! Share and Enjoy: