September 2010

There were 16 posts published in September 2010 (this is page 3 of 6).

Year One Labs "Office Hours" in Waterloo, Toronto and Ottawa

The Year One Labs team will be in Waterloo and Toronto tomorrow, September 28th for “Office Hours” and follow that up with a visit to Ottawa as well (on Wednesday.)

“Office Hours” gives entrepreneurs the chance to meet the partners, talk about the program we offer and connect with fellow entrepreneurs. It’s extremely informal. We’re not doing formal pitches, but we do encourage entrepreneurs (regardless of the stage you’re at with your startup!) to pitch us and talk to us about your ideas.

You can learn more on the Year One Labs blog.

Here’s the quick itinerary:

  • Waterloo – Tuesday September 28th 1:00PM – 3:30PM (Velocity Centre – U Waterloo) RSVP
  • Toronto – Tuesday September 28th 5:30PM – 8:00PM (Jet Cooper offices – 20 Maud Street) RSVP
  • Ottawa – Wednesday September 29th 4:00PM – 6:00PM (Code Factory – 246 Queen Street – 2nd floor) RSVP

If you can, please RSVP. But you don’t need to RSVP – all entrepreneurs are welcome.

Year One Labs is an early stage accelerator. StartupNorth wrote a brief post about Year One Labs when we launched.

Contest: The Art of Management tickets

The Art of Management - Nov 15, 2010 - Toronto, ONOur friends at The Art of Productions have given us 2 tickets to give away. There are tickets to:

You can buy a ticket right away and get $50 off the regular price (you’ll pay $349) — just use the discount code SK23 and visit http://www.theartofmarketing.ca/promo/SK23 or http://www.theartofmanagement.ca/promo/SK23.

If this sounds familiar, it’s the exact same deal as our friends at NextMontreal.com (so you can increase your odds of winning by entering at both sites ;-). And we’ll just borrow the

How to Enter

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November 15, 2010 – The Art of Management

Management lineup includes:

Both events look like great networking and learning events. As a startup, we like the chance for “free” tickets.

David Crow is moving on from Microsoft

John Oxley outed the news tonight. David Crow, one of the partners in crime here at Startupnorth, will be off the payroll at Microsoft as of the 24th of September.

David has spent the last 4 years going to bat for startups inside Microsoft. Anyone who has asked for his help knows just how relentless he has been in making sure that the best entrepreneurs got the support they needed.

I’m happy to see David moving on. Not because of anything to do with Microsoft, but I just think 4 years is long enough for anyone to stay at a corporate gig. It’s time for David to get back in the game and to kill it.

Having worked with Dave to organize dozens of events and to write this blog, I can tell you that he is rare in his focus and his ability to obsess with details while still keeping this big picture in perspective (and to remind the rest of us about why we are doing what we are doing).

He’s not talking about what’s next yet, but I know it’s going to be great.