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Jevon MacDonald

Jevon MacDonald

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Co-Founder, CEO at Manifold.co. Previously GM Service Cloud SOS and VP at Salesforce, Co-Founder GoInstant, Senior Partner at Dachis Group.

Less boardrooms, more dinner tables.

Less boardrooms, more dinner tables.

By Jevon MacDonald on January 3, 2013

People have become really good at pitching. The art has turned in to a bit of a science and if you do ever find yourself in front of a room of people it is par for the course for you to “nail it”. The pitch, it seems, is dead media. It’s time to stop obsessing with […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Angel investor, angel investors, investors, StartupNorth, startups

The Upside Foundation – Give back a little while you are busy taking over the world

The Upside Foundation – Give back a little while you are busy taking over the world

By Jevon MacDonald on November 28, 2012

One thing that has really been exciting for me in the last 3 months has been the Salesforce Foundation. When Marc Benioff founded Salesforce he committed 1 percent of stock, 1 percent of employee time and 1 percent of licenses to charity. It’s an incredibly small amount of equity and resources but it has had […]

Posted in Business | Tagged startups

Why The Idea is Bigger Than Everything

Why The Idea is Bigger Than Everything

By Jevon MacDonald on July 3, 2012

I was doing some thinking a few weeks ago about why I am a founder. Everyone has different reasons they look to in order to get through the long grind of being a founder. It’s tough and very thankless, so you need to find the tangible reasons that you can look to both to measure […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Big Ideas, enterpreneurship, Entrepreneur, google, Product concept, salesforce.com, startups

Why I’m a Founder

Why I’m a Founder

By Jevon MacDonald on June 22, 2012

Dave says we can’t all be founders. He’s probably right. At some point though, I decided that I wanted to be a founder. Lately I’ve been thinking about why it has been so important to me over the last 10+ years to keep at it, even when it didn’t make a lot of sense. A […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Entrepreneurship, startups | 1 Response

Canadian VCs are being cut loose, and that’s a good thing

Canadian VCs are being cut loose, and that’s a good thing

By Jevon MacDonald on May 30, 2012

Mark MacLeod just wrote a post about Canadian VC that cuts to the chase If there are any clouds on the horizon, they relate to the disappearance of the US / Canadian border when it comes to VC. When I first entered the startup World, you had no choice but to raise seed and series […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Canada, startups, Venture Capital

Canada’s Next Five Years

Canada’s Next Five Years

By Jevon MacDonald on April 11, 2012

1997-2012: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. 2012-2020: Optimism, Opportunity, Execution. I’ve been bullish for a while now, it’s no secret. It was 5 years ago that I was writing off VC in Canada and explaining how startups needed to step up to create an environment to bring them back. And like a bowl of Sea Monkeys, the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Canada, education, Silicon Valley, startups, vc funding, venture funding

Ladies Learning to Code is Not About Women

Ladies Learning to Code is Not About Women

By Jevon MacDonald on February 29, 2012

There is this small but fierce not-for-profit called Ladies Learning to Code. It has pretty straightforward but profound ambitions: “designed to help girls see technology in a whole new light – as a medium for self-expression, and as a means for changing the world.” (Girls Learning to Code camp). I started my first tech company […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Big Ideas, Canada, startups

If you want to change the ecosystem you need to build an amazing startup

If you want to change the ecosystem you need to build an amazing startup

By Jevon MacDonald on February 21, 2012

At Founders and Funders this week we took some time to interview Dan Debow. It was a bit of a love-in I admit but that is just because I really love how much passion Dan has for helping those around him. He has made a big difference in a lot of people’s lives. I’ve benefitted […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ecosystem, Montreal, Startup company, startups, Toronto

The Gravedancer Fund

The Gravedancer Fund

By Jevon MacDonald on June 22, 2011

It’s painfully obvious and we should stop ignoring the facts: RIM is catering and there is nothing that can be done to save them, short of firing the confused people who are running the show these days. I won’t comment on what exactly is happening at RIM, there are more than enough people doing that […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Blackberry, Research In Motion, RIM, startups, Waterloo

Coradiant acquired by BMC software

Coradiant acquired by BMC software

By Jevon MacDonald on April 28, 2011

On the heels of yesterday’s acquisition of Tungle, BMC Software has announced today that they have acquired Montreal’s Coradiant, which was co-founded by Year One Labs partner Alistair Croll. We are happy that Montreal has managed to win something in the last few days. The price is currently undisclosed, but the back of the napkin calculation tells […]

Posted in Business | Tagged BMC, Canada, Coradiant, Entrepreneurship, Exits, Montreal, Quebec, startups

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