Red Herring Canada

By Heri Aug 30th 2007 in Business

With the upcoming conference next week in Montreal, Red Herring has a special edition on Canada for its 27th issue. On a first article, Mira Schwirtz has 6 pages on the venture capitals and investors in Canada, and goes on current deals and opportunities in each province. She outlines Vancouver’s strength in cleantech, Toronto’s advance in software and new media, and telecommunications, video games, and biotech in Québec.

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Later, Red Herring also makes a top 10 list of Canadian startups. Highlighted startups from Montreal include Milestone Pharmaceuticals, Pyrophotonics Laser, OZ communications, a startup creating new services for mobile phones, and Artificial Mind and Movement, a video-game company on the rise.

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Carl Mercier August 30, 2007

2600$? Holy cow.

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Heri August 30, 2007

carl mercier: It’s a for-profit conference. I guess we are too used to barcamps and unconferences

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Carl Mercier August 30, 2007

I’m simply used to similar conferences that are there to help startups.

2600$ would be better spent flying to San Francisco and attending a bunch of free startup conferences and events. Stanford has a bunch of them for example.

I’m surprised that most speakers are VCs since, as far as I know, VCs were supposed to attract startup entrepreneurs. I don’t think many startups can afford going there.

Just my 2 cents.

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Overheard at Office2.0: Canadians startups don’t take enough risks | Montreal Tech Watch September 06, 2007

[...] that companies from Canada will never be as successful as the ones from the Bay area or Boston. It reminds me a lot of the Red Herring special edition, where the author defended Canada’s place in innovation and as a place for startups, [...]

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Tristan Wolhok January 24, 2011

Do you know of the content reminds me of another corresponding 1 Someone said some other place?

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