One of the reason why I quit Google and moved to Canada is because of Poutine. It is serious! In 2006, I lived in Montreal to study French at University of Montreal and I discovered one of my favorite food: Poutine. It is a very … Read More →
Tag Archives: Canada
DailyDinner.TV – Practical Dinner in the Right Time
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 →
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 →
Canada at 11th in Quality of Life Index 2009
I found out a quality of life index of over 100 countries. Canada is positioned at 11th together with other 8 countries. Read more here.
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 →
Must the VC industry shrink?
There is an article from the Financial Posts (a prestigious finance newspaper in Canada) that backs the idea that there are too much money in the venture capital industry. It says almost the same thing from my older post that the VC industry must shrink … Read More →
How is the Canadian venture capital industry going compared to the US?
People in the venture capital industry know that the VC industry is not going well in Canada. That is why it is even more important to know the situation in a quatitative point of view. The SME Financing Data Initiative is a government website that publishes … Read More →
Shrinking Venture Capital Market in Canada
The Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association released a report yesterday (May 12th) that the venture capital market continues to fall in the first quarter of 2009, continuing the shrinking trend from 2008. In the Canadian landscape, only $ 275 million … Read More →
Little Sheep – Chinese Hot Pot
I was really impressed to find a Chinese Hot Pot restaurant in Montreal. Not even Toronto has one! The Little Sheep is specialized in hot pot and the restaurant is great. It is a all-you-can-eat system. They give you a hot pot soup in your … Read More →