New York’s Handybook, the “Uber for Household Services” Expands to Toronto
Yesterday was a big day for Handybook, the New York-based startup backed with $15.7 million in venture capital. The startup…
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Waterloo Man Creates Fake PR Agency In Ploy to Get Hired
Uniqueness seems to sell. We like what we aren’t and we want to surround ourselves with people who go against the status…
GrindSpaceXL Is an Ottawa-Based Accelerator
Throughout our reporting of Canadian accelerators, we’ve yet to feature GrindSpaceXL, an Ottawa-based startup accelerator…
“Nobody Gives a S*** Anymore”: Life As a Failed Startup CEO
Last month I attended a startup event called FailCamp, which sought to bring entrepreneurs together to celebrate failure. It…
Real Ventures Fund III Gets First Close at $50 Million
It came with a lot of talk leading up to it, but this morning Montreal-based venture capital firm Real Ventures officially…
Vancouver’s CodeCore is Creating a New Wave of Developers
Demand for software developers in BC today is robust. Looking no further than T-Net which is showing almost 850 job openings…
Watch It Here: HBO Releases First Episode of “Silicon Valley” on Youtube
We’ve known for a while that Mike Judge’s new series Silicon Valley was going to be just as popular in Canadian…
Cascadia Shines As Vancouver’s “Startup-Palooza”
It was like “startup-palooza,” as Vancouver’s five key accelerators and incubators got together to throw a massive…
Here’s Four Toronto Startups Reinventing The Wheel
Reinventing the wheel and building a better mousetrap are cliches normally thrown around during a terrible elevator pitch.…
Winners Announced For Toronto’s Startup Weekend: Library Edition
Toronto’s Startup Weekend: Library Edition has announced winners of the intense 54-hour hackathon challenge to brainstorm…
Surrey, BC: “We’ll be like a Silicon Valley for Health Care in Canada”
It’s been barely a year since it’s launch and Ryan D’Arcy said “it’s been moving like a bullet train: a lot has…
“It Was An Abusive Relationship”: Canadian Cofounder Tells a Cautionary Tale
There have been a lot articles written about how to find the best cofounder, but I figured I’d write one about what happens…
Meet CBC Dragons’ Den’s New Fire-Breathers: Michael Wekerle
One of the two newest members to CBC’s Dragons’ Den has a multitude of tattoos (about “38 to 42”) and…
Meet CBC Dragons’ Den’s New Fire-Breathers: Vikram Vij
It was a little disappointing when we found out that Kevin O’Leary and Bruce Croxon were both leaving CBC Dragons’…
New Report on Industrial Internet of Things Pegs Industry at $19 Billion
A new report prepared by Toronto’s McRock Capital dove into Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) industry, detailing…