Archive for 'Venture capital' Category
Presenting teams at StartupCamp Montreal
17 January 2008Well the news has been out for a few days but I was just too busy to write a post about it. So here it goes. There were roughly 30 startups competing for this event. Some very well known (Standout Jobs, Mobivox and Praized) and some very stealthy (the rest of them basically). 5 “winners” […]
StartupCamp Montreal - Be there!
13 December 2007Great news! StartupCamp Montreal is finally official!
I spoke with the Embrase folks whom are organizing the event along other very fine and interesting folks yesterday but Sebastien Provencher got the scoop out first.
This will be an exciting event where 5 lucky startups will be choosen and will be invited to “pitch” in front of an […]
Why startups fail?
3 December 2007Interesting post on Union Square Ventures’s blog regarding why startup fails. Idea, adaptation, proper funding are critical. Too much money might lead to failure and so is lack of adaptation.
Too old to succeed?
27 November 2007A very interesting post by Fred Wilson about how old you must be to succeed. Does it really matter what age the founder is? Marc Andreessen believes that the internet is being shaped by a very young generation and that we must listen to them. The older generation has been trying to shape the Internet […]
The art of getting funding
17 October 2007Ben does it again with an extremely amazing article regarding how to get funding. It is true that nowadays a lot can be done with very little money. A couple of coders can do something very impressive. I myself (not a professional web developer) managed to get a lot done on my project (YulNews) using […]
Praized raised some
12 September 2007Praized.com, started by Sébastien Provencher, Sylvain Carle et Harry Wakefield received 1M$ funding from Garage today.
Good luck guys and keep up the good work!
