A weekly event we think of as group therapy for people crazy enough to try creating something from nothing. A room full of creators and inventors working on each other’s projects.

Who’s Crazy Enough?

Brydon

I work on 20Skaters, ThreeFortyNine, Ontario Startup Train and a few others. My vanity site is brydon.me.

Founder’s Club recap for January 9th meeting… Thanks to Ali Asaria from well.ca for dropping by. The most interesting tangent for me was this concept of how crazy you have to be to attempt creating a (insert dollar figure) dollar company. As well, if you show signs of success on that path, it’s very likely […]

Burn it to the ground!

Founder’s Club recap for our December 12th meeting… [Give] Dave Bullock of Fongo dove into his approach for identifying market opportunities. Instead of creating new markets or developing nascent ones, Dave described his love for disruption. Ripe for the taking are massive markets where the incumbents are equally huge and stuck in a perpetual tug […]

Have Some Personality

Brydon

I work on 20Skaters, ThreeFortyNine, Ontario Startup Train and a few others. My vanity site is brydon.me.

Founder’s Club recap for our December 5th meeting… [Give] Matthew Sharpe of Daring Boy shared the value of allowing your personality to come through in the design process. Taking the time to step back from the colours and nuts and bolts of building to remember why you’re building your business and then allowing the design […]

Postcards and Landing Pages

Brydon

I work on 20Skaters, ThreeFortyNine, Ontario Startup Train and a few others. My vanity site is brydon.me.

Founder’s Club recap for our October 24th meeting… I realize this is getting old but we had yet another full house last night at Founder’s Club. We had a great mix of people building both tech and non-tech businesses which was awesome. Thanks for everyone who came out. Scott led a discussion on landing page […]

Selling Expensive Stuff Online

Brydon

I work on 20Skaters, ThreeFortyNine, Ontario Startup Train and a few others. My vanity site is brydon.me.

Founder’s Club recap for our October 10th meeting…. Scott led a discussion about selling expensive, high margin goods online. We seeded the discussion by reviewing MacKenzie & Marr and their model of selling guitars made in China online. It was clear to everyone in the room how important their Dragon’s Den appearance played in marketing. […]

The Value of Feedback

(Guest Post by Steve Holub) This could be a single sentence blog post – feedback is massively important.  End of story.  But there’s a little more to it than that.  I work closely with a business partner (my dad) and a couple of other colleagues, and I have for years.  After a while, you start to […]

Demo != DemoCampGuelph

Brydon

I work on 20Skaters, ThreeFortyNine, Ontario Startup Train and a few others. My vanity site is brydon.me.

A friend mentioned today that naming our upcoming DemoCampGuelph inspired event “DemoCampGuelph Old School” was confusing. Some people may think we’re stopping the existing DCG and replacing it with these events. To clarify, DCG proper is not changing. All we’re doing here at ThreeFortyNine is hosting a smaller, more intimate event inspired by the early […]