Schedule & new format for StartupEmpire, Canada’s upcoming startup conference

By Heri Nov 5th 2008 in Business, entrepreneurship, Events

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Jevon MacDonald writes that they’ve decided to scale back StartupEmpire to one day instead of two, with tickets now costing $65 instead of of the $245 or so. He cites the economic recession and the need to adapt to hard times.

It’s incredible how things change, with the bloggers at StartupNorth calling entrepreneurs to Start Building Empires and how Canadians entrepreneurs will save VC funds and build amazing startups, just a few months ago. Now, Jevon has been very vocal and dramatic about skies falling, due to what’s happenning in world finance. I’m also looking at the schedule (see below) and the “motivational” speeches and now wondering what message and who to believe in. Who knows if there are more 180 deg turns ahead of the road.

DAY ONE – NOVEMBER 13TH, 2008
8:00am-9:00am — Welcome and Registration
9:00am-9:30am — Keynote - Don Dodge - Why you should Startup in a downturn.
9:30am-10:00am — Keynote - Lane Becker - 10 Reasons why you should absolutly not start a company.
10:00am-10:30am — Break and Demopods
10:30-11:15am — StartupSchool - From Napkin to First Steps
11:15am-12:30pm — StartupSchool - Your first structures; Legal, Organizational and Funding
12:30pm-1:30pm — Lunch – Demopods
1:30pm-2pm — Keynote - Howard Lindzon
2pm-2:45pm — StartupSchool - The funding game, From friends to VCs
2:45pm-3:30pm — StartupSchool- The Ins and Outs of Term Sheets: Angel Loans to Preferred Shares
3:30pm-4:15pm — StartupSchool - InstaPitch: From Elevator to Power Point
4:15pm-4:30pm — Break
4:30pm – 5pm — Keynote - David Cohen
5pm-5:30pm — Keynote - Hugh MacLeod
6:30-9:00pm — Microsoft Canada – A Startup Celebration Location: This is London Nightclub, 5:45pm – 9:00pm, November 13, 2008 Dinner and Drinks

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Louis-Philippe Gauthier November 05, 2008

Are you planning to go? I read somewhere that they packaged a DVD full of valuable information to startup. If you do go, a torrent would be appreciated?

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Heri November 05, 2008

http://techentreprise.com/events/heri

for the DVD, it’s the first time I hear about this. I’ll give you mine if I get my hands on one

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Montreal Tech Watch November 05, 2008

Schedule & new format for StartupEmpire, Canada’s upcoming startup conference http://tinyurl.com/6dl83g

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