Tomorrow is the Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast. It’s at a new location (Boccacinos on McGill College). Click the link above for all the details. In the meantime, I have a great announcement… Sun Startup Essentials is sponsoring the breakfast! That’s right, breakfast is free. But please be reasonable…we don’t need any abusing their goodwill. I […]
Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast on Sept 9th with New Location
The next Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast is scheduled for September 9th at 8am. Please note — the location has changed. We’ve decided to try a new place to see what it’s like. Our hope is that the space is a bit bigger and it’s a bit easier to move around. If it doesn’t work out, […]
StartupCamp Coming in November – Get Ready
StartupCamp is a great event organized primarily by Embrase. It’s a less tech-focused unconference (versus DemoCamps and BarCamps) where a handful of startups get on stage and pitch the audience. There’s a group of investors (angels and venture capitalists) who provide feedback, and there’s the overall audience of entrepreneurs, etc. there as well. There have […]
Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast is Back
Thanks to all the feedback we received about the Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast, and the help of Heri and Tanya, we’ve resurrected the breakfast event for tomorrow. This is a bit last minute, but with the help of Heri and Tanya we’re going to be much more organized for future breakfasts. You can sign-up to […]
Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast – Evolving the Startup Ecosystem
I instigated the first Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast over a year and a half ago because people were complaining that there was a lack of casual get-togethers for entrepreneurs, techies, investors, etc. It was straightforward to do at the time, and with the help of Sylvain Carle we got the ball rolling. The goal was […]
Startup Communities and Startup Failure
I’ve got two critically important articles to point your attention to today – on startup communities and startup failure. Jevon MacDonald talks about how startups can save venture capital (in Canada). He includes a great presentation that he’s given in a few places about how startup communities can work more effectively to get great startups […]
May’s Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast
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 Bistro, Etc. Here are the details: Tuesday, May 13th @ 9am Location: Bistro, […]
April’s Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast This Tuesday
How time flies. It’s incredible. We’re already moving our way into April and I’m still catching up on things from two months ago! And meanwhile, there’s still too much snow on the ground. But anyway…April’s edition of the Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast is set to go on Tuesday, April 8th @ 9am. The details are […]
How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More
I was very glad to see that someone recorded the recent Blitzweekend presentations. Stephane Daury did a great job recording everything, and I’ve enjoyed watching the presentations I didn’t see. I gave a presentation at Blitzweekend about starting a company. It was a mixture of a few things including: how Standout Jobs started from within […]
March Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast
The next Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast is coming up soon — scheduled for: Tuesday, March 11th @ 9am Location: Bistro, Etc. – 1291 Avenue du Mont-Royal, E. Facebook Event Listing: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13575190029 Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5502019497 We run the breakfast on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Anyone involved in technology + entrepreneurship (developers, startup entrepreneurs, curious […]
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