Ashton Kutcher, Photoshopping and the Muse Headband: The Bizarreness that Unfolded Yesterday
Yesterday Ashton Kutcher sent out a tweet to his 16.3 million followers about the Muse “brain-sensing” headband,…
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Canada (Finally) Awards its First Startup Visa
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander was in Vancouver Thursday morning at GrowLab and Launch Academy to…
Next 36’s Trip to New York City Is About Relationships, Not Cheques
Next 36 mentor Christian Lassonde was pretty blunt on the phone about what he tells a handful of startups from every cohort…
20 Years and 150 Million Monthly Uniques Later, Vice Founder Sheds Light on Its Humble Canadian Beginnings
On the Friday afternoon of NXNE 2014’s interactive portion, likely the most anticipated speaker told the story of how…
Startup Culture Needs a New Ethos: Stop Faking and Start ‘Being’
Editor’s note: The Canadian startup community’s (and beyond) greatest attribute is its greatest fault: its positivity.…
Vancouver’s ShoeMe Made a Few Smart Hires Last Week
I’m usually not big on writing articles about people that you’ve never heard of being brought on as “C__”…
Here’s Why You Should Probably Take the Startup Train to Montreal This Summer
Once again Guelph’s ThreeFortyNine coworking space and its founder Brydon Gilliss will be taking startup entrepreneurs…
Here’s the Six FounderFuel Startups Who Will Pitch at Tonight’s DemoDay
Six Canadian startups will pitch to a crowd of over 800 investors, media personnel and startup enthusiasts tonight at Teatro…
Both Failure and Success Define Entrepreneurs Like Snip.ly’s Michael Cheng
I’ll admit it in all its biased glory: I’m a big fan of Michael Cheng. He’s the 24-year-old founder of Snip.ly but…
The Next 36’s Fourth Cohort is Officially Underway in Toronto
After five months of working remotely, the 36 young, high-potential Canadians who were selected for the Next 36‘s fourth…
Toronto’s Top Hat Gets $10 Million in Series B Money
Toronto’s Top Hat has raised a $10 million series B round from Georgian Partners. Funny, we just wrote about the guy…
A Cease And Desist Letter Didn’t Stop Andrew D’Souza From Aggressively Growing Top Hat to 80 Heads
If there’s one guy who knows a thing or two about building up a startup it might be current Bionym president Andrew D’Souza.…
Startup Canada Names Its Startup Awards Winners
Startup Canada has named its “mover and shakers” of Canada’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, in the form of its…
Is Techstars Coming to Toronto-Waterloo?
The CEO and founder of Techstars, the popular US-based startup accelerator present in six cities (as well as London, UK), is…
A Four-Month Stint in NYC Helped This Canadian Startup Pivot (And Maybe Even Raise)
Things are going pretty well right now for Now In Store, the Montreal-founded startup that previously went through the FounderFuel…