It looks like the folks at Embrase are dedicated to create a strong startup scene around Montréal. While the first StartupCampMontreal is still fresh in our memories, they have now announced the second edition for Thursday May 15th at 6.00pm, at the SAT. If you missed the first edition, here is a detailed report with [...]
Report: Coder’s Saturday
This weekend at Station C, there was Coder’s Saturday, a conference/meetup/camp which gathered 30+ web developers. The meetup was a joint collaboration between the folks from Station C, Nurun and Yahoo Québec. The event came up with the venue in town of Christian Heilmann, from Yahoo! UK. He gave a insightful presentation about how web [...]
Report: Mobile Developer Meetup
Last friday, a small group gathered at Station C to talk about developing services and applications for mobile phones. The meetup was somehow improvised after rapid exchanges on twitter, around me, Martin Dufort, who started previously Kakiloc, a mobile “location-based twitter”, and Fred Brunel, who was already poking the iPhone SDK. And so was born [...]
VC Roundtable by Rick Segal, April 16th
Rick Segal, partner at JLA Ventures, a fund investing in emerging tech companies, is touring Canadian cities in a series of “VC Roundtables” to meet entrepreneurs and local startup community. The goal is to present and explain what really is a technology investor; and also present documents and information about the investment process. The planned [...]
GameCamp Montreal
The next meeting of the IGDA’s Montreal Chapter will take place at the SAT on Wednesday, the 26th. With 20 presentations limited to 6 minutes each, I’m expecting it to be a super condensed version of last November’s Montreal International Game Summit. GameCamp, like MIGS, appears to draw on a large spectrum of topics and [...]
Job Listing: Chief Technology Officer at Culture Café
Company: Culture Café Position: Chief Technology Officer Responsibilites and Tasks: Culture Café (www.culturecafe.com) is looking for a Chief Technology Officer. The candidate should have prior CTO experience as well as knowledge of the social media space. The ideal candidate has a multicultural background, with experience living or working abroad or exposure to multiple cultures. Required [...]
Almost half of Québec now using voip telephony
A Léger Marketing study reveals an impressive rise of voice Over Ip telephony in Québec in 2007. Figures in 2006 showed that only 16% of subscribers were using voip, but the new study shows that the rate is now 44%, nearly a +200% increase in just one year. The figure is surprising, as voip technology [...]
Capazoo lays off 60, shops itself
In yet another dramatic but expected turn of events, Capazoo, the “black sheep” of startups in Montréal, has layed off all of its development team late last week. 60 developers, mostly .Net programmers, were asked to leave the premises immediately, and all that was left was a sysadmin to run the whole system. The official [...]
Video game developer tax credits doing more harm than good?
Mark Greenshields has written a brief criticism of the government tax credits used by Quebec (and recently Ontario) to attract developers and foster industry growth. I found it to be an extremely interesting and surprising article, as I had previously never read anything but praise and support for the tax credits offered to companies in [...]
A small step for Branchez-Vous, a big symbol for local entrepreneurs
Yesterday, Branchez-vous reported that it acquired 2 niche successful websites in Québec, fanatique.ca and humourquebec.com. I didn’t write about it, as I knew Branchez-Vous’s overall strategy is to become the #1 media destination in Québec, and their tactic is to acquire regularly new web destinations, on a bi-monthly basis, and launch new advertising partnerships. One [...]
