Montreal's Pibster is a reverse auction platform that wants users to sell anything and everything through social media, starting with Twitter.
The premise is simple: a user sets a high price, and every time someone tweets that auction item, the price decreases by a fixed amount until someone clicks buy (assuming someone is interested before it hits the reserved minimum price).
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Calgary's Boast Capital announced today a partnership with Saeed Amidi and the Plug and Play Tech Center to launch Startup Camp Canada.
The hybrid accelerator program will provide Canadian startups acceleration time in both Calgary and Silicon Valley and access to over 180 Silicon Valley venture capital firms and angel investors such as Accel Partners and Sand Hill Angels, world class entrepreneurs from companies such as YouTube and Skype, and a community of leading universities and corporate partners.
Startup Camp Canada will be launched in two phases.
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Today Montreal's FounderFuel will graduate 11 startup teams at historic Monument National in front of a sold out crowd including investors from San Francisco, New York, Boston, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
Anticipation is high as last fall FounderFuel graduated 9 teams of which 4 have raised a combined total of over $2.5 million to date.
Today's FounderFuel graduating class hail from across Canada - Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec City and St. John’s - and includes:
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The organizers of the GROW Conference have announced something new for 2012.
Day one of the three-day conference has now been labelled GROWtalks and will be focused on how startups can create simple, actionable metrics, and use them to make better product and marketing decisions for long-term growth.
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The best marketing videos work like a personal referral from a close colleague or friend—they kickstart relationships or remind existing contacts that you’re still competitive and relevant and ready to do business.
Let’s face it. You probably don’t have time to sit down for a one-on-one conversation with thousands of new business leads this week. Even if you do, a great digital video strategy means you can invest that development time elsewhere.
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2011 BC Angel of the Year Boris Wertz says being Canadian might just be the best way to break into Silicon Valley and 19 Canadian startups are about to find out if he's right.
The C100 announced the lucky startups to participate in the upcoming 48 Hours in the Valley event from June 25-27 and the companies selected span from coast-to-coast.
Hit the link to find out who is representing from your home province.
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Intigi has just launched Moonbird, a microapp that helps you find people to follow on Twitter based on the content they share.
The startup describes Moonbird as "a free service that helps you find interesting people to follow on Twitter," and using it is simple: give Moonbird an article URL and it will show you the last 20 people who have shared it on Twitter.
read moreSo there are startups everywhere these days, all over the world, ranging from solo endeavours to rapidly growing teams of dozens of people. But when most people think of a job, or even a career, they imagine climbing a corporate ladder in a medium to large business. So who are the people behind these tiny little budding companies?
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Toronto-based startup Scalability officially launched on Wednesday, looking to provide businesses and startups with back office services for everything that encompasses accounting, administrative duties and human resources. Essentially, they really want to “take care of this stuff so you don’t have to.”
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ESL Explorer recently emerged from stealth mode, and the Vancouver-based startup is already making waves in the ESL education market.
The ESL market is worth over $4 billion annually, with over 25% of that spend currently going to agencies who place students in schools.
ESL Explorer wants to bring a healthy dose of the Internet into an industry that operates like the travel-agency industry did 15 years ago.
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