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on Tue, March 9, 2010 8:52 AM
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If you haven't used or even heard of the mobile location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla then you are in the minority. Such services, in case you don't know yet, are used to tell the world where you’re visiting, And now a company has created a service that can...
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Ian Andrew Bell is a Techvibes Guest Contributor and this post was published on his blog earlier today.
Over the past way-too-many years I’ve had occasion to interview north of 250 individuals for dozens of positions at both startups and large companies on both sides of the border. Having spent...
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This video series is a practical guide on selling a business, the exit process, the exit team and how to sell for 50% more.
The video is from my keynote speech at the National Angel Capital Organization Annual Summit late last year.
Some of the topics include:
Successful investing requires two things -...
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by Rob Lewis
on Thu, February 25, 2010 8:31 AM
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Co-working space StartPad is hosting a Y Combinator Meetup this evening, Thursday February 25th, in Seattle at 6:30pm.
Come by the RescueTime offices at StartPad.org from 6.30pm to talk with Harj Taggar from Y Combinator and several Seattle based YC alumni. Harj was a founder of Auctomatic, acquired by Live Current...
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on Tue, February 2, 2010 7:34 PM
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Late last year we featured a conversation with GridCentric CEO Tim Smith. Earlier today we had the privilege of Tim filling us in on their latest development involving Yok University.
GridCentric is proud to open up the beta deployment of its Copper cloud computing platform at York University to York University...
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by Karim Kanji
on Mon, February 1, 2010 8:16 PM
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With all the recent news about Apple's iPad and Amazon's dominance in the eReader catagory with the Kindle, I thought we should highlight another company that loves reading: Vook.
What is a vook? According to their website, "A vook is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality...
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by Kyle Vucko
on Mon, February 1, 2010 10:04 AM
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In the early days of Indochino.com, just the idea of someone investing in my business partner and I’s company was amazing! I got lucky and stumbled into some awesome angels. In retrospect, here are a few things I would look out for when finding angels for a future startup:
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by Karim Kanji
on Mon, January 18, 2010 3:37 AM
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This past weekend, Techvibes was able to cover the inagural EpCon 2010 conference in Waterloo. We were also able to get the scoop on a new social venture that EPIC launched that weekend called Ei3.
Ei3, according to their literature, is a platform for multidisciplinary experts to come together and tackle...
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by Karim Kanji
on Sat, January 16, 2010 9:12 PM
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Chul Lee is not only the founder and Chief Technology Officer for startup Thoora. Chul is also a very proud Canadian who is working with a very smart team to make Thoora the "Google" of Canada.
Chul was a seminar speaker at EPIC's EpCon 2010 conference in Waterloo, Ontario. During his...
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on Sat, January 16, 2010 8:53 PM
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This past weekend at EPIC's EpCon 2010 conference I had a chance to corner Plug & Play's Shobeir Shobeiri. As part of his mandate as the Business Relationship Manager, he focuses on early stage web, mobile, and gaming startups with funding and business development.
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