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Victoria's Chartbrain Transforms Music Charts into Automated Music Video Playlists

Want to stream an automated playlist of the best music videos for free? Victoria-born Chartbrain has your back.

A solo project built by Canadian developer James Gagan—who was involved in the somewhat similar Songspin startup—Chartbrain's premise is beautifully simple. First, select a music chart. There's Billboard, Last.fm, Hype Machine, and more. Next, choose a countdown (from the bottom of the list up to the top song), a top 10 countdown, or a shuffle. You can also start with a specific song.

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Communitech's HYPERDRIVE Joins FounderFuel and JOLT in TechStars Canadian Network

Last month Techvibes reported that Toronto's JOLT had become a member of the Global Accelerator Network (formerly TechStars network).

The Global Accelerator Network (GAN) is an alliance championed by TechStars and originally created as part of the White House’s Startup America Initiative. JOLT was not the first Canadian accelerator to become part of the GAN - Montreal's FounderFuel has also leveraged the TechStars brand north of the border.

Today Communitech's new tech accelerator, HYPERDRIVE, announced it will become the third Canadian member of the GAN.

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Canadian Startup is Auctioning its Own Platform Through its Own Platform

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 Plugs into Accelerator Craze with Big Silicon Valley Partner

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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FounderFuel Accelerator Graduates 11 Startups From Across Canada

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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GROWtalks: a hands-on playbook for creating startup success

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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Five Creative Strategies Every Startup Should Consider When Producing an Online Marketing Video

The best marketing videos work like a personal referral from a close colleague or friendthey 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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These 20 Companies are About to Break into Silicon Valley

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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Just Launched, Intigi's Moonbird is a Cool New Way to Follow Relevant People on Twitter

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.

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