Farming vs Shark hunting … or why there needs to be more boldness

By Heri Jan 21st 2008 in entrepreneurship

If you are:

contemplating technology entrepreneurship,
wondering why Canada is lagging in mobile technology,
wondering how come all technology and innovation news come from the US & Japan, and never from Canada,

then you should read today Will Pate’s post at StartupNorth. It’s a rather long post, on how we must be bolder, on which I agree 200%.

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Startups solve problems. So if you find a problem there’s probably a startup idea lying somewhere nearby. A Montreal developer Kenji Williams developed an app called twtspire.com that scours twitter and automatically detects tweets from people that wonder why a solution doesn’t exist for a specific problem they’re having. Here are example of tweets from [...]
AccelerateMTL : more than just a conference

AccelerateMTL is coming up on the afternoon on May 23rd, right after the FounderFuel demo day. It’s announced as a conference full of good keynotes, from successful entrepreneurs like BeyondTheRack founder, renowned Internet marketers, and other Internet execs. View more on the eventbrite page. As the name suggests, the presentations were curated to accelerate startups. [...]

Stephane Daury January 21, 2008

+1 in agreement. But a tidal wave is coming. :) I predict spring 2008 will be a good quarter on that front for Montreal.

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