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May’s Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast - 2 days ago
Most people will tell you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So if you’re in Montreal, and you’re interested in technology and entrepreneurship, you should think about joining us for breakfast on Tuesday, May 13th @ 9am at..
Software startups always start out very heavily focused on technology. They have to be; they’re building some kind of software application and most of their time has to go into doing that properly. Most software startup teams are made up entirely...
StartupIndex: A Great Resource for Canadian Startups - 7 days ago
The guys behind StartupNorth and a number of other initiatives, have recently launched StartupIndex, which they describe as, “…a free, community-based index of technology startups and investors in Canada.”It’s similar to... Personal Branding and the Job Market - 19 days ago
If you don’t think personal branding is important, you’re flat out nuts.Nowadays it’s so much easier to brand yourself online - through blogging, social media, networking - and then leverage that effectively offline as well. Bringing... Data: A Startup’s Secret Money-Making Asset - 21 days ago
The pervading approach to launching a startup is to do it quickly, iterate constantly and make as much noise as possible throughout the process. It’s not a bad way of doing things, and given the lower cost of startup operations, and the nature of...































