Montreal Tech Watch

I wrote a post one year ago to sum up 2007; ending with the outlook for 2008. 2 years ago, there wasn’t any tech scene to speak of in Montréal, except from a few techies who’d connect at a place like Laïka and interact through blog posts. How things have changed. There is now a [...]

There’s Montréal StartupDrinks, for all entrepreneurs and startup fellows, and then there’s FreeHackers Montréal. FreeHackers is a movement started by Zed Shaw, the programmer famous for having written mongrel, and infamous for having dissed ruby: The Freehackers Union is a gang devoted to preserving hacking and invention as methods of personal artistic expression…by any means [...]

Carl Mercier, of Karabunga, took lots of pictures at last week’s party, CelebrateCamp, organized by Austin Hill‘s expert hand. Here are a few, ripped off from facebook (but anyway, they were public there): Karabungas Heineken models Devs from Praized execs from Praized smarthipppo / Karabunga folks If someone has pictures of Simon Law, please let [...]

Last week in Paris, the largest European web event was a wrap. As you may know, it is organized by the very public Loïc Le Meur and his wife Géraldine. Both now living in San Francisco but originally from France. Also, out of the 1600 attendees, only a few Montrealer’s made the trip. One investor, [...]

Thursday 8pm at RadioLounge on Blvd. St. Laurent Montreal’s tech community will join together to celebrate 2008 and kick in the festive season. Thursday Dec. 18th 8pm – RADIO LOUNGE MTL 3553 St-Laurent Montréal, Québec http://mtl.radiolounge.ca We’ve opened up ticket purchases again if you weren’t able to get your tickets before.   You can still purchase [...]

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As announced previously, the Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast are now scheduled every 2 months, and next tuesday morning, starting from 8am, we’ll have the first one following the new schedule. There hasn’t been one in November, nor will be one in January, so I’m expecting lots of people. There’s already 72 people registered attendees on the [...]

One of the first posts at TechEntreprise, back in August, was about an idea by Zed Shaw, which was to get developers and hackers together and work on projects.  The post was meant to test the publishing system there, but it generated quite some attention, up to the point that doing an event like this [...]

Come out an celebrate 2008 at CelebrateCamp2008 with the Montreal Technology Community. As a community we have many things to celebrate. A successful year of Barcamps, StartupCamps, Democamps, Podcamps and a host of other community events flourished in 2008. We’ve seen more startups launched, more investing activity and a number of our local community have [...]

StartupDrinks, an informal meetup for technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and anyone interested in launching new technology companies was scheduled last week. The last editions were back in august, in summer, and after a brief hiatus, we’re now bringing them back. It was a good suprise to see so many entrepreneurs showing up at the event, [...]