Tonight is DemoCampGuelph! Please register and join us tonight at 6:30pm at The EBar in downtown Guelph. You do NOT have to demo to attend. You can show up, quietly have a pint and see some folks demo some interesting tech projects. Or if you’re feeling friendly, you can get all real world social and […]
Our 23rd instance of DemoCampGuelph is coming up on Feb 19th. The rumour is that folks who won demo of the night at our last event are now down south in YCombinator, however, The Crowie award was retrieved before they left town. As always, we need your help to make this event awesome! Please spread […]
I recently read Small Giants in which they mention the idea of ‘human scale’ companies. These are not lifestyle or franchise businesses. As defined in the book, “Human scale, that is, a size at which it’s still possible for an individual to be acquainted with everyone else in the organization, still possible for the CEO to meet with […]
If you’re freelancing, starting a business, or even just looking for a new job, that iphone selfie may not be the best foot forward. Our headshot day is back on Jan 23rd. We’ll have Noelle here again shooting headshots for our ThreeFortyNine members. It takes less than 30 minutes. You’ll receive two final versions that […]
In our early conversations with companies about our new Leverage program, it’s becoming clear we have to shift the conversations into the context of their company quickly. In most cases we’re speaking to the companies founder or exec team. One way to shift into their context is to simply ask… “what crazy ideas have you […]
Yes, software is eating the world and hardware as well. Established, existing companies are quickly realizing the entire game is being changed underneath them. The symptoms are everywhere. Some companies like Qualcomm and Intuit are attempting to create corporate entrepreneurship programs. Others are simply buying their way into the game. Since the early days of […]
We often bring guests into ThreeFortyNine who have domain expertise our members value. Recently we had a technical writer in for the day, this Wednesday Dec 11th we have some legal action. Kevin Holbeche from Fasken Martineau will be in our building and hosting open office hours. Kevin is a patent lawyer who can advise […]
Entrepreneurs eat what they kill. Bootstrapping and creating something from nothing, however, can be a long, lonely, penniless road. Depending on the business, it can take months, maybe even years, to bootstrap and grow a new business to the point it can pay it’s founders a decent salary. In the meantime, how do these technology […]
Jim Collins book Good to Great introduced the concept of getting the right people on the bus. The idea being that curating the people who make up your company is as important as developing the business itself. As immersed as I’ve been in coworking, including founding and running ThreeFortyNine for 3+ years, I’m only now […]
I’m massively biased this Wednesday’s DemoCampGuelph is not to be missed so register to attend now! Not only will we get to catch awesome demo’s from local tech folks, have a few pints with the local tech scene and hear some startup stories from my boy Mike Kirkup…… After that’s all said and done…we get […]