Last week I was at the StartupEmpire conference. Thanks to everybody else who helped in putting the conference together. It was a great demonstration of how the local tech community can come together to help entrepreneurs. One session of particular interest was the ‘insta-pitch’ session. In this, 5 companies came Read more…
StartupEmpire rocked! Here are some roundups in case you couldn’t make it: Flow Ventures takeaways, BlogTO learned why now is a great time to start a tech company. Listen to recordings of StartupEmpire keynote presentations. And here is pre-conference interview on CBC Radio.
Well, it’s over. StartupEmpire was, by most measures, a success. Almost 300 people in total come by to either the conference and/or the after party and we didn’t lose our shirts in the process. I would be lying if I told you that putting StartupEmpire together was easy or even Read more…
Thank you to everyone who submitted entries to the StartupEmpire giveaway. The quality of the writing and thinking was excellent and it was inspirational hearing so many people wanting to further their entrepreneurial careers. Our hats off to all of you. While our selection criteria was by no means perfect, we did Read more…
The most important part of any conference is in how you meet other people who are attending, and this is a great chance to get a head start on that. StartupEmpire sold out last Monday. We’ve been working with my gang at to build an additional opportunty for people to come Read more…
We can’t wait to get started with the StartupEmpire conference on November 13 in Toronto, so we thought we’d pass the time by talking to a Canadian startup entrepreneur who has managed to grow his business from a two-man shop to 27 employees – and counting. In part 1 of this 5 Read more…