This Wednesday, the Ottawa Community Loan fund is putting together another one of their “Art of the Start” events. The idea of the event is to get together a few entrepreneurs in the community to speak to aspiring entrepreneurs and share with them lessons learned.
Here are the event details:
Date: June 23rd 2010
Time:6pm – 9pm
Location:Algonquin College, [...]

I Received this letter from the University of Ottawa with regards to “Project Hero.” Project Hero will wave tuition fees and 1st year dorm costs for children whose parents were killed while serving for the Canadian Military. I’m impressed with the initiative. Here is the letter:
Despite an overcast sky, summer is here and that means [...]

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The following is a great post from fellow entrepreneur, Harley Finkelstein, on being an entrepreneur while in school. Harley makes a number of great points and shares his lessons with us below:

“Textbook to Checkbook”
In 2001 I moved from Boca Raton, Florida, to Montreal to study business at McGill University. Within a [...]

As some of you may know, I’ve recently started working on a startup company called Chide.it. I’ll write more about Chide.it and what we’re up to in some future blog posts; but, if you want to be amongst the first to see a demo of our first 2 products and you happen to live in [...]

Tonight I am doing an informal presentation for the IEEE Ottawa section at the Urban Well @ 7pm. The title of the presentation is “Untangling the Web”… Here are some of the things I’ll be talking about:
a) What is Web2.0 and what is Web3.0?
b) What are the most popular Web Services in use today?
c) How [...]

Harley Finkelstein sent me a message informing me of an initiative that he was involved in. Harley is lead investor at Innoventure Capital. The following is the media release:
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The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), based at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, has asked the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to investigate [...]

These days web startups don’t need too many resources to get started. An internet connection, a place to work, some basic capital, and a motivated team may be the beginning. I am writing this post from the University of Ottawa where I’m sitting amongst 2 other groups who are working on their own startups.
The [...]

Mike McNulty contacted me the other day to remind me of a great event that is coming up on Monday, June 16th – by Third Tuesday Ottawa.
Michael McDerment and Sault Colt from  Freshbooks will be talking about how Social Media helped spread the word about their company (which is doing quite well). It should be [...]

This Thursday night should be lots of fun. I’ve been invited to present as part of a round-table of local CEOs, VCs, and Angel investors  about what it takes to start a company without significant outside investment. It should be quite entertaining so if you’re free this Thursday night make sure to drop by.
This is [...]

Its that time again. Ottawa DemoCamp9 is on Monday at a new location. The big news is that Ottawa’s top blogger, Alec Saunders, will be our MC. Should be lots of fun.
For those of you that don’t know, DemoCamp is an amazing event where some of Ottawa’s Up and Coming Tech Stars present the latest [...]