6th Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast (15)
July 10th, 2007 · by Heri · entrepreneurship, startups
Amelie Racine, Mark Schanzleh, Fred Ngo
Today was a great summer day and also the monthly meetup for Montreal Tech Entrepreneurs, at Etc Bistro on 1291, avenue Mont-Royal Est. Unlike the previous reports, I won’t go into details, so here are some the highlights:
- Daniel Drouet and John Stokes from montrealstartup are busy setting up the angel fund with other key investors in Québec. If you haven’t met them yet, their goal is to provide early funding, from $50k to $500k to tech entrepreneurs, in internet, mobile and wireless. They also want to assist entrepreneurs fine-tweak their business plan, and follow them in their growth. I am following closely what they are doing by the way
- Er Shen is setting up media5, here in Montreal. Media 5’s key expertise is in electronic catalogs. I will have to find about this more, but you know already my opinion from a previous post about one of their direct competitor.
- Stanley Chan is a tech engineer (in software release) who freshly arrived here in Montreal. He was just curious I guess about the local startup scene.
- Amélie Racine, from Montreal/Quebec, and partner Mark Schanzleh, from the Netherlands, want to setup a travel website called staynomad where travellers can share their experiences and connect with locals, outside of the traditional and commercial turist industry. For instance they would offer the option of lodging from the website’s users. This is a very creative idea, that I believe have huge potential — although we all know it’s the execution that matters most.
- Pierre Phaneuf is back from France - he does C, C++ programming, and linux administration. I forgot to ask him though what are his plans for Montreal
- I also met Louis-Eric Simard from creativedefense. We talked a while about microcredit and micropayments and what can be done. More to come on this in the following months from madmedia
- The news of the day comes from Daniel Haran who is now standoutjobs‘2nd ruby guru. Congrats then. And me who was thinking he was taking a few weeks off here in Montreal. I guess there are no possible holidays for ruby programmers in Quebec.
Louis-Eric Simard, Fred Brunel
Some other people and friends I met again, with no particular order:
Allo Heri, happy to have met you again, quick comment to mention you didn’t call me Daniel but Adrian this time, it’s almost perfect, the good version is Adrien ! Best Greetings !
PS :: I didn’t mention this morning … but we have closed our first deal last Friday ;-)
:-) i am not very good with tracking everyone’s names
I don’t really do much Linux administration, actually (although I did program a kind of “expert system” to do that completely automatically, on top of having done that a while ago and still using Linux all the time, so I do know a thing or two). Interested parties could see a summary of things I’ve done here: http://pphaneuf.livejournal.com/161071.html
I’m quite interested in scaling of all sorts, from making software work on lightweight hardware like wireless routers to making a heavily loaded web site scale horizontally. While it might not be obvious, that would also touch things such as power and heat management, which is becoming quite important in the server rooms of today, and sometimes even a critical factor in being able to stuff more machines in those racks.
All sorts of magic, all sorts of magic… ;-)
Oh, I’m also interested in doing things with the Atom Publishing Protocol (http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/) and Atom itself, of course, both of which I think have a pretty brilliant future in front of them…
They can be used for a great many things beside feeding news and blog posts, such as containing wiki pages, and they can be extended in many interesting ways, a popular one being podcasts, but add geotagging, put hCalendar microformats in them and throw them on Google Maps, for example, it’s quite interesting.
Heri: Seems we missed each other as I was attending as well. I will post a number of photos of the event on the Kakiloc Flickr site.
L8er - Martin
Hey Heri,
It’s always a plesure to meet all kinds of passionate people! But we didn’t get as much time to talk as last time. So much people, it’s hard to move!
Hope to see you there next time!
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@pierrre phaneuf. I have put your page in the tumblr feed.
@martin dufort. I saw you taking pictures too. But i guess the settings are not ideal to see everyone
@marc andré - it’s indeed very cool to be part of a growing trend. it’s fun right now. so much thing to do and build, so much challenges, only the unknown lies ahead. I know that in 10 years (for instance) it will be much less fun, it will be more institutionalized, with more rules, and more easier for montrealers to work in high tech.
Great pictures and write-up. Thanks Heri!
I’m sorry I missed it — was sitting in the passport office. I’ll be there next time.
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