How Not to Be Annoying at #SXSW: A Review
Far be it from me to contradict the wise words of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross (“Always Be Closing!”),…
Canadian Startup News
Several BC Startups Named “Ready to Rocket” Companies for 2014
Several Vancouver and BC-based startups have been named “Ready to Rocket” ICT companies for 2014 by Ready to…
Video: New Extreme Startups Company Provides Higher Education to Sub-Saharan Africa
In our first profile of the five new Extreme Startups companies, our Joseph Czikk chats with Fora cofounder Ian Carnevale.…
Victoria’s Sendwithus Is Headed to Y Combinator
Getting accepted to join Y Combinator must feel like winning the Super Bowl. With alumni like Reddit, DropBox, AirBnB, and…
Canadian Indentity-Privacy Pioneer Austin Hill Has a Message for the Founders of Whisper and Secret
Two new apps called Secret and Whisper that encourage anonymous posting were all the conversation last week among high-profile…
Toronto’s Encore Wants to Give Concert-Goers the Digital Equivalent of a Ticket Stub
About 70 percent of concert-goers take photos or videos with their phones or digital cameras, which is either really annoying…
Thalmic Labs Flexes Its Gesture Control Arm in New Myo Demo Videos
With alpha units of the Myo now in the hands of developers, we are starting to really see the power of this game changing wearable…
Vancouver’s Elastic Path Software Gets $5 Million
Elastic Path Software Inc., a digital ecommerce software vendor, has raised $5 million in convertible debt and term facilities…
These UofT Drama Grads Have Brought Shakespeare Plays to iOS
Toronto-based startup Shakespeare at Play have released the second version of its iOS app by the same name. The app was created…
Creative Tension at #SXSWedu 2014
Days before SXSW 2014 erupted in the spectacle of a livestream from Edward Snowden, educators, entrepreneurs and investors…
Kevin O’Leary and Bruce Croxon Out, Wekerle and Vij In As Dragons’ Den Shakes It Up
It’s with a large disappointment in writing this when I say that notorious dream-crusher Kevin O’Leary is leaving…
BetaKit at #SXSW: Kiwi Wearables Does Not Want to Perform Science Experiments On Your Personal Data
Every time I tried to watch the wearable technology portion of the SXSW Interactive Accelerator Pitch Contest, the room was…
BCIC-New Ventures Competition Means Lessons Learned and Cash Earned
Faced with the reality of being idea-rich and resource-challenged, the lure of the BCIC-New Ventures Competition catches the…
New Study Finds Half of Canadian Startups Run by Part-Timers
A new Intuit study has found that more than half (53 percent) of all new startups in Canada are run by part-time entrepreneurs.…
Who Can You Trust With Your Data? This Toronto Startup Wants to Help
Who can you trust with your data? That’s a multibillion-dollar question. Three years before Snowdenâs plea to the…