Thanks to our sponsor Shopify, we’re giving away…. Two free startup tickets on this July’s Startup Train. These tickets include your first class travel on the Startup Train to Montreal and full access to the International Startup Festival. You will only need a place to stay and a way home after the conference. We’re giving these tickets […]
We tried something new for last year’s Startup Train aimed at helping our passenger’s avoid the boondoggles. When you attend startup conferences, you can’t simply show up and send a report to your boss after. Unfortunately you’re on your own now and you need to decide what you’re hunting for and go find it! To that […]
Public tickets sales are now available for this year’s Ontario Startup Train! You can purchase your ticket here, if you don’t already have one. For the third year in a row, we’re chartering our own private VIA Rails cars to pack them with Ontario entrepreneurs, investors and other startup junkies. We’re travelling to Montreal to […]
In less than two weeks a bunch of Ontarians are heading to Montreal for Pycon, and they’re doing it in style. How much style, you ask? The most style. They have two dedicated train cars, one of which contains a bar. I’m not going to Pycon, but I am going to be on the train. See, Montreal’s […]
While it can be fun the first few trips, travelling for business and conferences generally sucks. It’s a necessary evil in order to get yourself to an awesome conference like PyCon. We’re hoping to fix that for a small group of people heading to PyCon in Montreal this year. We’ve chartered our own VIA Rail […]
PyCon is the “largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language”. The Montreal community convinced the PyCon conference to step outside of the US for the first time in it’s history. PyCon is being hosted in Montreal Canada in 2014 and 2015. With an unique opportunity like that, we jumped at the chance to extend […]
Startup Train was a great catalyst for the team at Vantage Analytics. We used the Train to not only connect with the broader Startup community but also to launch the first demo of our platform: a predictive analytics and data platform that helps business managers to leverage their customer and transactional data. Leading up to […]
With it’s second year under our belts, our Startup Train is becoming a bit like fight club in that you just don’t quite understand it until you experience it. Inspired by conversations on our train, Mira from Profit wrote about the role ego plays in startups and how to protect startup ideas. Katherine from ShopLocket summed it up well…. […]
It’s last call for this year’s Ontario Startup Train, we only have a few tickets left. Only two more sleeps until we hop on our own VIA Rail cars filled with Ontario startup founders and funders. We’ll travel to International Startup Festival in Montreal where we’ll join up with over a thousand more startup junkies. […]
Thanks to everyone who attended our Toronto pre Startup Train meetup last week. Thanks for our event sponsor VIA Rail who allowed us to give away a $500 travel voucher to someone in attendance that night. This week we’re hosting another pre-train meetup at McCabe’s in Kitchener-Waterloo. Please make sure to register to allow us […]
