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Former MaRS CFO saw problems in 2010
The following is a guest post from Mark McQueen, originally written on Wellington Financial’s blog. Thanks to the fine folks here at StartupNorth, there has been a vibrant online discussion over...
View ArticleOne Post to Rule Them All
Hard to believe that it has been 21 months since I wrote Don’t Panic: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Toronto Startup Ecosystem. There are parts of this post that are a little dated but it generally holds...
View ArticleYou are supposed to break the rules
Great entrepreneurs truly do not care about the rules. If you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of rules. Some come and go with the times, others never seem to go away: You are supposed to dress a...
View ArticleMaking Canada SAFE
It has been 9 months since PG announced the YC SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity). The Winter 14 batch included Canadians: Taplytics, Send With Us, Piinpoint, Minuum, Gbatteries and others....
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We Should Be Building Empires
Last chance to get your tickets to this incredible event! We don’t build a lot of empires around here. Empires are big, they grow fast, and they use momentum to determine where to apply resources....
View ArticleHow we raised a $2MM seed round in 2 weeks
This is a guest post by Mike Katchen, founder of Wealthsimple, Canada’s first online investment manager. He recently moved back from San Francisco where he led marketing at 1000memories (YC S’10,...
View ArticleFounders & Funders: Nov 18, 2014
It’s that time again – to bringing together the people that start emerging technology businesses and the people that fund them, early. Who should attend? Uhm, yeah. Founders & Funders. Founders You...
View ArticleAn Investor’s Rendition of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
by Travis Cocke (sourced from Seth Levine) ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land Not a banker was lending, not even “Gold-Man” Foreclosures were hung by the courthouse with care...
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Products are Lines, not Dots
I see a lot of founders and startups struggling with explaining what they are trying to accomplish. Many are just focused on how they are going to do the next thing. The next release, the next pitch,...
View ArticleZombie Factories
We like to give out a Zombie of the Year award in our annual Unicorn Awards. The Unicorn Awards are the far more lucrative and weighty cousin of the upcoming Spotlight Awards (are you going?). In 2013...
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