Monthly Archives: February 2007

Startup funding in Canada - the new wave

2007/02/06 – 07:39

I was today at a local event, le forum financement - capital de démarrage - la nouvelle vague (the title of this post is a rough translation). Great insights on the local scene in Montreal and the canadian perspective on angel and VC financing. Check out my posts (in french) on the other side of [...]

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Entrepreneur’s breakfast in Montreal : february 13th

2007/02/05 – 04:18

The word is out : next week at La Cafeteria on St-Laurent. I will be there… will you?

Tags: canada, montreal, quebec, startup

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Web startup server geek needed…

2007/02/05 – 08:36

I am looking for a combined dev/sysadmin for two of my startups. A few hours per week to start, managing and automating an interesting emerging tech stack. Linux + Ruby on Rails (deployed with capistrano) + MySQL for one part of the application, Asterisk + Python for another part. I already have developers working on [...]

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The influence of the selling on the software development process

2007/02/02 – 08:51

Alex Williams has a post about choosing how to sell your (software) product or service. He outlines three options ;
1. Closed-source hosted application running on my own servers with various subscription plans (i.e. blinksale)
2. Closed-source downloadable self-hosted application with a one-time fee + extra charge for upgrades (i.e: userscape)
3. Open-source extendable & downloadable self-hosted application [...]

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Startup Meetup in Montreal (and my story)

2007/02/01 – 08:27

I always find it fascinating when I have an idea and that boiling on the backburner and then serendipity does it’s magic. I started to discuss with a few local entrepreneurs and startup related folks about doing some cocktails or breakfast just to get things going. Thru some blogosphere echo, I stumbled on Ben Yoskovitz’ [...]

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