Remember that Blue Jays game a few years back when, because of a team-wide illness, an equipment manager dressed for the game? He was meant to sit on the bench and look like a player. The back story is that he had played little baseball in his life, even as a kid. Everyone in attendance […]
UPDATE: We’ve moved our pre-event Toronto event to June 10th. In partnership with Via Rail, we’re hosting a pre Startup Train meetup May 29th June 10th. It’s a wine and cheese in the Panorama Lounge in Union Station. If you’re already bought your ticket for the train then this is a chance to meet some […]
EDIT: It’s a bit of a challenge in this large venue to hunt me down so let’s add twitter to the mix. Post a tweet with both #startuptrain and #meshcon to be entered into our starving startup ticket draw. I’m excited to be attending Mesh Conference the next two days. I’m also hoping to make […]
I’m heading into Toronto Monday May 13th to speak at an evening event about books and startups. My plan is to head in for the day and meetup with anyone curious about our upcoming round of Startupify.Me. If you’re an experienced software developer hungry to get into startups and small business, I’d like to buy […]
Very few people, projects, companies etc associate, or identify, themselves as entrepreneurs, myself included. In doing the rounds promoting our upcoming Startupify.Me program, I hear it everywhere…. “Well I’m a developer and startups seem exciting but I’m not an entrepreneur and I’m not sure I want to do my own startup” “We’d like to have […]
The other night my son was about to do something he knew was wrong. He looked around, noticed I was the only person around so he asked me “Should I do this? No one will see if I do it now.” First I told him it was his choice. Then I did my best to […]
My good friend’s Ben and Alistair recently co-wrote the book Lean Analytics sharing how you can use data to build startups faster. I bounce ideas of them often and recently we got into an email exchange about vanity metrics within the startup community that resulted in this post. This is cross-posted on the Lean Analytics […]
Think very carefully about who’s in your company. By company I mean the truest sense of the word, who do you keep company with, not who’s an employee or member. “The word company is derived from the Latin cum and pane, which means ‘breaking bread together’”, The Start-up of You Your network is massively important […]
We’ve been working away with the folks at Kap Design on an infographic to attempt to describe what coworking’s really about. It was a very cool process and it was interesting to learn how these images come together and the work it takes to convey information clearly. Jamie wrote some about the process on their […]
The hardest part of creating awesome landing pages, websites etc has nothing to do with html5, css, or python. It’s isn’t about SEO optimization or building your site for the robots. It’s about humans and I’m going to give you the secret right here and now. Steve Krug wrote a book titled Don’t Make Me Think. […]