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Globe and Mail Video: Venture fund brings West Coast style to Toronto office
Get a look inside MantellaVP in this short video interview done by Katherine Scarrow at The Globe And Mail. Read More
The 2nd Best Startup Launch Video
In the early days of 2012, a small startup called Dollar Shave Club unleashed the greatest startup video of all time upon the unsuspecting Gillette wielding world. The video was titled “Our Blades Are F***ing Great” and it masterfully … Read More
Shopcastr Announces $1 Million Round of Financing
Congrats Matt, Judy, Aron and the rest of the ShopCastr team on bringing together a great group of strategic investors to help push you towards global success! Read More
USA Today: SurfEasy vows ‘Plug-in Privacy’
SurfEasy in both print and digital USA Today. Read More
Conventional Wisdom and the Fragmented Fork
The conventional wisdom states that “platform” or “standards” battles (think PC/Mac, Beta/VHS) are won by achieving a dominant market share which leads to more “content” which leads to more consumers. This position is widely held in the tech world but this outcome could be undermined by two trends: fragmentation and forking. Read More
Leverage the Government
Startups that are looking for external funding – be it equity, debt or otherwise – have a long list of providers whom they can reach out to in Ontario. The list includes dozens of venture capital funds, angels, and other institutional sources. Read More
TWiT-TV @ CES: Chris Houston Giving the SurfEasy Pitch
Chris Houston shows off SurfEasy on TWiT at CES’12 Read More
A Hardware Renaissance while “Software Eats the World”?
In early August 2011, Marc Andreessen published an unusually long and detailed essay in the Wall Street Journal titled “Why Software is Eating the World”. Mr. Andreessen argued persuasively that: “…we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad … Read More