I’m very excited to announce that our invited speaker for DemoCampGuelph22 on October 30th is Mike Kirkup. Mike has a previous life running efforts like developer relations at a small shop named BlackBerry. He’s now dove headfirst into the startup world with his current role as Director of VeloCity at University of Waterloo. There’s a […]
I’m excited to start talking about a new project in the works. In a previous life I helped run, and grow, a software development services company named BandOfCoders with my good friend Bobby. I was involved for 3+ years and stepped out to get involved in a startup project. Since then I’ve dabbled with custom […]
We have a lot of bootstrappers at ThreeFortyNine. What’s a bootstrapper? Wikipedia says “Bootstrapping or booting refers to a group of metaphors which refer to a self-sustaining process that proceeds without external help”. The free dictionary says “To promote and develop by use of one’s own initiative and work without reliance on outside help”. The majority […]
It’s been a while but our 22nd version of DemoCampGuelph will be on October 30th. Hopefully I won’t be pelted with rotten eggs! Please make sure to register if you can attend. If you’d like a demo spot, please apply now. I do NOT decide who gets to demo so bribing me won’t help but […]
In this series of posts we’re “grilling” the members of our ThreeFortyNine Co-working Space with the hope of discovering who is best able to answer a standardized set of questions. Points for accuracy and un-originality will be assigned. Actually we’re just trying to learn more about them .. the kind of stuff that doesn’t appear […]
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. […]
[This was cross-posted with our friends at StartupNorth] First, a quick quiz…For this quiz, time is important as we want your gut instinct so you only have five seconds to answer before the submit button goes away. It’s multiple choice, there are only two options and you simply need to select one. When you’re ready, […]
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 […]
We’ve challenged our Startup Train passengers to record a 30 second video stating their success metric for taking our train to Startup Festival. As Alistair wrote, this is all about dodging the boondoggles. Our goal is to post as many of these videos as we can to our Vimeo page before we get on the […]