Ottawa knows that entrepreneurs and innovators are wealth creators and the keystone to the city's future economic prosperity. Which is why, on June 14, AccelerateOtt will bring together entrepreneurs, students, researchers, investors, and thought leaders to celebrate the past, present, and future of Ottawa’s startup community.
A picture is worth a thousand words and nobody knows that fact better than Flickr. The image and video hosting website is now offering users one terabyte of free space—that is over 500,000 original, full-resolution, pixel-perfect photographs. Flickr users can now capture every image, relive moments, and share artistic expressions without any worries about storage space.
This article is the 3rd in a series that highlights how to properly go about funding and growing your startup.
In evaluating US VCs, it’s important to identify whether they hold any Canadian investments, as many firms have criteria about the geographic areas in which they will invest. Chances are that if an established VC has not previously invested in a Canadian company, they are not likely to do so in the near future.
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My last startup, Attassa, despite being acquired by Yousendit, was gruelling. Three times we built different products and felt famous when blogs like TechCrunch covered our launch and forced user acquisition through the roof. And three times we felt devastated when website traffic and our belief in the product came crashing back to earth the day after launch. We pushed through, not because of belief in what we were building, but why we were building it.
Profit magazine is searching for hot young companies for their 14th annual Profit Hot 50 list.
Recognizing Canada’s top new growth companies, the list ranks businesses by their past two years' revenue growth. So if your firm was launched in 2008 through 2010, you can enter to be in the Profit Hot 50 list.
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The world of startups is a complex animal and one that’s subject to the odd mood swing or two. With rapidly-shifting consumer tastes, volatile, agitated markets and seemingly light-speed global tech innovation, picking a startup winner is as tricky as finding a needle in a needle stack.
Originally introduced in the US in Octobe 2012, eBay Feed has come to Canada.
Slyce, a visual recognition purchasing platform, is making quite a name for themselves. They have already been dubbed the “Shazam of Stuff” and just Techvibes learned exclusively that the company's oversubscribed seed funding round has topped out at just over $3.75 million at its official close.
Vancouver-based online dating company Plentyoffish is changing how its site works to emphasize relationship seeking and downplay those simply looking for sex.
Despite how connected humans are thanks to smartphones and social networks, important messages still get lost in the mix. That’s why Vancouver’s Progrid Technologies developed the iiris app, (short for important information relayed in seconds), which promises to ease multi-channel communications so that notifications never get overlooked again.
The Ottawa International Game Conference, which showcases the innovations and emerging trends in the Ottawa and Canadian gaming industry, starts on Wednesday, May 29.
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