Montreal Tech Watch

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; [...]

Company: WebDirect Position: Flash Engineer job Responsibilites and Tasks: The job will consist of building UI interfaces for embedded, resource-constrained platforms. This position is to be filled as soon as possible. The minimal duration of the assignment is 6 months, renewable. Requirements: The ideal candidate would have worked on automotive head units, media players, digital [...]

This is the third and final post presenting the results of the tech entrepreneurship survey. The first one was about the current strengths of the Montréal technology community, the second exposed the challenges and problems met by technology entrepreneurs, while this post will present potential opportunities, for actors of the community and also anyone having [...]

CakeMail, a Montreal-based email marketing service for agencies or consultants, has released just last week a major version of its software. The codename is Tiramisu and brings in all the shiny bells & whistles you could wish in an email marketing service: A/B testing, advanced analytics, dynamic content, an add-ons store, and more. The main [...]

Text’NDrive gets today in TechCrunch’s top 15 iPhone apps. The hands-free application which allows mobile phone owners to text without typing and looking at their device’s screen was only launched 3 weeks ago. Granted, it’s only a guest post and it looks like a personal selection, not a list made from statistics or user ratings, [...]

This post follows last week’s about the strengths of Montreal as a technology entrepreneurship center, with results and analysis from the MTW survey. Those initial results highlighted Montréal’s characteristics, a creative, low-cost and friendly city, which are more or less its USP. The report dedicated to the challenges met by technology entrepreneurs in Montreal is [...]

StatusNet has announced early this week $1.27 Series A funding from FirstMark Capital, BOLDStart Ventures, plus also existing investors iNovia Capital and MontrealStartup. This brings StatusNet’s total funding to $2.3 million The 2 new venture groups, FirstMark Capital and BOLDStart Ventures are from New York City. Scott Switzer, from FirstMark, joins also StatusNet as new [...]

Feeling Software has released recently a new product, Omnipresence 3D Pro Design. It’s a software which allows security planners to view and optimize virtually camera placement. I could explain the software with a full review, but this video is much more efficient It’s interesting since when I met first the Feeling Software team when they [...]

Compagnie: mTrip Position: Développeur ruby Responsibilités et Tâches: Visant un marché mondial, mTrip développe des guides de voyage pour smart phones (iPhone et Android) tirant profit des nouvelles tendances technologiques et culturelles. En collaboration avec l’équipe marketing, le développeur aura pour mission de concevoir une application web en Ruby. L’application web, partie intégrante de l’offre [...]

The compiled survey results aren’t all out yet, but a first glance from last week’s survey shows that a mentorship program was the #1 most wanted, well beyond other initiatives such as organizing democamps, getting more investors, or getting a startup school or house. It’s a surprising result. For me, it shows that there are [...]