CEIM receives government money
Here’s some news that literally went under the radar for most people. CEIM (Centre d’entreprise et d’innovation de Montreal) received 800,000$ from the Quebec government.
Funny enough, the CEIM which helps startups in very specific domains by provinding an incubator-style environment, is complaining about the lack of startup financing. I knew about CEIM but what I [...]
Why do we need VC’s?
Interesting article by the StartupCFO pointing to another post by Silicon Alley about early stage funding.
My feeling is that VC’s tend to wait for the deal of the century in order to throw in as much money as possible in order to get a large part of the pie. While this might work for [...]
Coop Entrepreneurship AKA Join me on a quest to change the world!
I’ve been thinking a lot these days and I have a lot of great ideas that I don’t want to forget about. Some of them were ridiculous and I killed them right away. However some are fairly good and good enough that I want to do something with them. Who knows, perhaps one of them [...]
BlitzWeekend is alive!
As mentioned on MontrealTechWatch, BlitzWeekend is officially open for business! What is BlitzWeekend? Well in simple words, it’s a competition where teams build a product in 48h. Yes, over a weekend! This event is based on very successful events (mainly Startup Weekend – which originated from Boulder Colorado) however we slightly modified the basis of [...]