140 startups from 40 countries want to jump aboard Blueseed, the floating startup incubator that will offer technology entrepreneurs a visa-free enviornment in which to build their company. Seven of those startups are Canadian.

With 5% of the interested startups coming from Canada, that places our country fourth among all nations, Blueseed says. The sea-bound incubator hopes to launch in the third quarter of 2013.

In January, Techvibes reported that Canadian entrepreneur Dan Martell was starting up again with Clarity.

If you're part of the startup community, then you've heard of Martell.

He was most recently with Flowtown, which was acquired by San Francisco's DemandForce in October.

But Martell is also an angel investor who advises startups using metrics driven marketing tactics.

He started the Maple Butter blog and he's particularly fond of Canadian startups.

Today, Martell unveiled a new advice service for entrepreneurs and he knows a bit about getting and giving advice.

A tech startup based in Toronto hopes to use its technology to save lives. Verelo points out how high the risk and danger can be when emergency systems fail. What happenes when the 911 line goes down, or an airline experiences a systems failure?

“We are depending on computer systems more and more everyday," explains Mike Curry, the CTO and co-founder of Verelo. "Ten years ago, it was unheard of to have your car connected to the internet; today, a lot of navigation systems connect to the internet to download the data you see on your cars navigation system."

Vancouver's Tagga Media announced yesterday the appointment of veteran software executive Jean-Guy Faubert as their new Chief Executive Officer taking over for original CEO Amielle Lake.

Lake founded Tagga in 2008 and will move into the role of Chief Marketing Officer.

Lake shared her learnings from year one of Tagga with Techvibes and went on to be named one of Techvibes Digital Media People to Watch in BC in 2011.

"I am both thrilled and honored to have Jean-Guy join our team." Lake said. “I believe he has exactly what Tagga needs: experience in scaling sales, superb customer relationship development skills and a proven background of leading fast-growing companies. I look forward to working with Jean-Guy and building the best company we can.”

According to Statistics Canada, 2.7 million Canadians were self-employed in 2010. That's about 8% of the country's total population.

Canada’s entrepreneurs will get a federal nod of support tonight as Member of Parliament from Ottawa West-Nepean and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird joins other Members of Parliament, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs from across the country for the official launch of Startup Canada taking place at the University of Ottawa. Already one month into its six-month National Tour, Startup Canada team members are travelling coast to coast to celebrate entrepreneurship, identify key challenges facing Canadian seed-, early- and growth-stage businesses, and inspire new community-led solutions.