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Get them out of the building: Travel support from Volta

Get them out of the building: Travel support from Volta

By Jevon MacDonald on December 20, 2013

When Ben Yoskovitz moved to Halifax to join us at GoInstant he left the growing Montreal community and brought a lot of fresh perspective to what needs to happen in Nova Scotia to grow the startup ecosystem. The #1 thing he noticed was the successful startups were the ones getting out of the building and […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Nova Scotia, San Francisco, StartupNorth, startups

Atlantic House @ Grow next week in Vancouver

Atlantic House @ Grow next week in Vancouver

By Jevon MacDonald on August 2, 2013

The buzz has been awesome about the GROW conference next week. Just a few weeks after Startup Fest in Montreal. The summer season is moving quickly… A Startupnorth we’ve helped organize the Ontario House along with Communitech and the Waterloo community, and now we are announcing that along with Volta we are organizing the Atlantic […]

Posted in Business | Tagged events, StartupNorth, startups, Vancouver

Should you pay to pitch an angel group? What the data says

Should you pay to pitch an angel group? What the data says

By Jevon MacDonald on March 14, 2013

We have seen a pretty amazing wealth of information about financing models and structures come to light in the last 10 years. It wasn’t that long ago that VC and Angel financing were dark arts which few entrepreneurs understood. We have always worked hard to demystify startup financing on StartupNorth and have done a long series of articles which was focused […]

Posted in Business | Tagged angel investors, Canada, Entrepreneurship, StartupNorth, startups

If not an Angel Network, then what?

If not an Angel Network, then what?

By Jevon MacDonald on February 20, 2013

David posted a pretty in-depth piece on the First Angel Network this week. This followed an awesome discussion on TechVibes about angel groups over the weekend. The structure and funding model for First Angel Network were a pretty big surprise to me when I moved to Halifax 3 years ago. Frankly it is pretty easy for us […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Angel investor, angel investors, Angel Network, AngelList, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, StartupNorth, startups | 1 Response

The companies I should have paid more

The companies I should have paid more

By Jevon MacDonald on January 30, 2013

Building a startup is hard and managing ops is really hard. Devops are hard and expensive. Luckily these days there are some amazing companies making it way easier to build the startup of your dreams. Frankly, I don’t think they are getting paid nearly enough while some are getting paid way too much. What apps […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged GitHub, google, HipChat, iPhone, services, skype, StartupNorth, startups, Trello | 1 Response

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

Startup Festival coming to Montreal – Why it’s important

Startup Festival coming to Montreal – Why it’s important

By Jevon MacDonald on March 31, 2011

I know that David just posted about the upcoming Startup Festival, but I thought I would add my own thoughts: I have definitely been getting the feeling that the whole “startup conference” format is getting a little stale. The same formats in the same cities with most of the same speakers. The real benefit of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Canada, conferences, Entrepreneurship, events, Montreal, Quebec, StartupNorth, startups

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