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Tap In Tuesday, mentoring event with Sebastien Provencher

By Heri Aug 12th 2010 in entrepreneurship, Events




Tap In Tuesday @ Café Des Éclusieurs


We held the first edition of Tap In Tuesday at Café des Éclusiers last tuesday. It’s a mentoring event where one experienced entrepreneur will spend time with new entrepreneurs, discuss about his path and problems, and provides potential problems that attendees might be currently facing. In this case, Sébastien Provencher (@sebprovencher) was the experienced entrepreneur; telling how he went from the original idea, how the original Praized team was formed, how they looked for funding in the United States but finally managed a deal right here in Montréal, and how Praized managed for the past 3 years, with now the third iteration of their product, Needium. Tap In Tuesday @ Café Des Éclusieurs Sébastien was very open and didn’t hold out details that others might keep private, such as his discussions with VCs, the problems they faced in product development, the ups and downs at Praized, and also the excitement of building a product.

There were many questions by attendees, mostly about financing how-tos, relationships with VCs, building a startup in Québec. It was an opportunity for a dozen of entrepreneurs to get precise answers. This is not always the case for events like StartupDrinks, Founders & Funders, or any other event I’ve seen in Montréal, since most of the time, there is a long time dedicated to introductions and general small talk, then the inevitable discussion on “how can we work together”. Tap In Tuesday @ Café Des Éclusieurs Here, the focus is about learning and everyone is welcomed to ask questions about the “entrepreneur process”.

My impression is that this first edition was successful and that’s also the general feedback I had by talking with attendees. The fact that there is no other similar event in Montréal, and the fact that we had very precise questions confirmed this.

Gabriel also has a more detailed report, which I invite you to read

There are also more pictures here

Thanks to all the attendees for coming, thanks to Gabriel for leading the event, thanks again to Sébastien Provencher for his welcomed generosity.

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