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QuebecValley launches a database of local startups

By Heri Sep 25th 2007 in Business

So Denis Canuel who started blogging in French and in English a few months ago at QuebecValley has been working hard on startups and growing his website. Now, he has just opened a new section in the website. It makes a list of startups in Montreal and throughout Quebec. He lists some other planned features:

  • A “PR center” where startups can post their own PR, hopefully gaining some local interest
  • A listing of resources bringing value to a startup. For example:
    • Government entities willing to help entrepreneurs
    • Coaches, business veterans, volunteers
    • Angel “groups” and Venture capital
    • etc.
  • Ability for startups to setup polls to tests new ideas
  • A jobboard
  • Help wanted / Looking to help section

I have been thinking of getting similar services on MontrealTechWatch, but between this and Yulstart, it doesn’t make sense anymore. Maybe later, but right now it’s just too crowded.

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Comments

  • Jevon September 25, 2007

    I was thinking about this a few days ago. Is there any way to use something like Google Base or DabbleDB to consolidate a list, and each of us could handle the maintenance of our local city/region/province?

    Then we would have a well maintained, national, DB.

  • Sylvain Carle September 25, 2007

    Yeah, add to the mix a few Facebook groups about canadian startups and this starts to look a bit overcrowded… if the QuebecValley database is any good and available under a decent (CC or GFDL) license, I will gladly link to it from yulstart and maybe use the wiki page as a kind of buffer for companies “not yet” in the DB…

    I really like the distributed editing too, having one person doing the maintenance can become a bottleneck.

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  • Heri September 27, 2007

    I have thought about this and I think the only solution is someone developing a database for canadian startups and putting the database under CC.

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  • Homer Corlee January 24, 2011

    Why do released reminds me of some other very similar one which I read some place else?

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