Attention entrepreneurs! Here are the upcoming application deadlines for spring/summer accelerator programs. Get those applications ready now! January 18th – Techstars NYC 18k + 100k convertible note at graduation, based in NYC January 20th – Startup bootcamp Amsterdam 15k per team, 3 months based in Amsterdam, Netherlands January 21st – Wayra 50k for 5-10% [...]
Simon Papineau is the founder of QA on Request, a crowdsourced software testing company. He has been involved in video games and software development since 2003, working for Gameloft and Frima Studio. In 2009 he co-founded the web and mobile development studio WE+ARE, which he sold in 2011. The North American start-up scene nowadays revolves [...]
It’s almost Christmas time and your little daughter, Sara, is begging you to get her a pony. She makes a good case with arguments like “but I want it!” and “pleeease!”, but as a responsible parent you understand that a carrot muncher is not the most practical gift. Suddenly you realize that many of the gifts [...]
FounderFuel just announced today that accepted applicants to the FounderFuel program for the spring 2013 and forward will get $50,000 instead of the past $25,000. In exchange, the Montreal-based startup accelerator will ask for 9% equity instead of 6% equity. The $50,000 comes up with the existing advantages and offers that the program offers, such [...]
Une semaine après le 3ème #founderfuel demo day, nous avons voulu revenir sur cette soirée que nous avons suivi des balcons, puis dans la foule, pour mieux saisir l’esprit qui y régnait.. et afin aussi de donner la chance à tous ceux qui n’ont pas pu y assister, de se replonger dans cette soirée très [...]
We can see above Alexandre Pelletier-Normand and Jason Della Rocca at a recent Maison Notman event. Once known as a prolific community instigator, event organizer and IGDA director, Jason Della Rocca and his partners has announced a new video games incubator/accelerator, named Execution Labs. Here’s an insightful interview: Can you present yourself, and your team? [...]
Released today, Startup Guide provides a strategic 10,000 feet view of the key players in Montreal. As such, it doesn’t really answer to the question “How do i start a technology company”, but aims more to see the links between major players, major events and news, and tries to see what’s missing in the equation. Universities have [...]
How do you go about changing a seemingly endless cycle of obstructed access to education in a developing country? And how do you do it via a mobile app? That’s what Montreal startup Decode Global is trying to do. Decode Global is a Canadian incubator of mobile apps for social change, and the goliath problem [...]