Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Some brilliant anecdotes such as: Three years ago, the producers of a Canadian television show called “Marketplace” ordered boots, diapers, a toy train, a coffee maker, a printer, and several other items from Amazon Canada. “So, my main takeaway for nontechnical founders: Don’t wait. They concealed a G.P.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada. But I have some.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 24, 2013

oi and Cristian Strat, founders of Summify (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Two years ago , Danny Robinson, Maura Rodgers and myself started to lobby for a Startup Visa Canada that would make it easier for foreign (tech) entrepreneurs to start their company in Canada. In addition, Startup Visa will create good Canadian jobs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. In all outsourcing cases, a detailed specification is required.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? As to “why Canada?”, Like a month or two.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2013

The Canadian government announced on Thursday it will launch a new program on April 1 to encourage startup founders who will (hopefully) create new jobs and spur economic growth in the country. The program is the first of its kind in Canada and is being pitched as “a powerful incentive to attract individuals with great potential.”

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 6, 2022

David Ciccarelli is the CEO and founder of Voices.com. Based in London, Canada, Voices.com provides an online marketplace, facilitating transactions between business clients and over two million voice over professionals.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

The Ontario, Canada-based Location Based Marketing Association (LBMA) earlier this month launched LMBA Singapore, its new regional chapter focused on promoting and supporting Asian companies working on location-based services (LBS) market through collaboration, education and research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. In all outsourcing cases, a detailed specification is required.

Intellectual Property 225

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2014

We participated in these follow-on deals to further support our founders. We remain geographically agnostic: a 50-50 split between Canada and the US with the highest concentration in Toronto (6), SF/Bay Area (5) and Seattle (4). Collectively, the amount raised by all our companies this year was $160M.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 2, 2019

Happy Canada Day to our friends and colleagues north of the border, and Happy Fourth of July to those of you south of the border. And finally, we loved these books and sent them to our founders… it you find yourself with some extra time this summer, we recommend reading them! We hope everyone is having a great start to summer.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 3, 2021

Founder’s announcement. Arguably, the most powerful piece of content that can be written is by you, the founder. Regional/local outlets tech = e.g. BetaKit, The Logic, Globe & Mail (Canada), Geekwire (Pacific Northwest). Take the time to craft a blog post on the mission of your company and the product you’re developing.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

And that’s just the domestic market – we have plans for expanding to Canada and UK after we build our market here. Team Info: Founder: Dana Todd. Dana Todd, Balodana Founder. This is my third time founding a company. Fantastic points. Good luck and thank you, Balodana. HQ Location : Chicago, Illinois.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Each copy of the first printing of the hardcover edition of The Startup Way in the US and Canada contains a unique code that grants you access to bonus features at thestartupway.com/bonus.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Shopify research shows: 46% of buyers in the US and Canada have made purchases from local, independently owned businesses since the beginning of the pandemic. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. For example, when the initial waves of the shutdowns hit Canada, Great Lakes Brewing had 15,000 gallons of beer sitting in their silos.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Both companies will jointly be investing in activities that foster innovation and supporting startups, beginning with Women 2.0 ‘s signature networking event Founder Friday. has held over 200 Founder Friday events in 30 global cities. To date, Women 2.0 “Google is excited to team up with Women 2.0 ”

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Version One Ventures

JULY 5, 2017

We hope everyone had a great Canada Day and/or Fourth of July! It’s hard to believe that another quarter has flown by. Q2 has been busy for Version One and our portfolio companies – here’s a quick recap of select news coverage, funding announcements, and product updates (at least the things we can announce publicly): .

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A successful entrepreneur, John is the founder of three businesses: The DiJulius Group, an international consulting firm, John Robert’s Spa, a chain of upscale salons in Northeast Ohio, and Believe in Dreams, a nonprofit that helps make dreams come true for deserving children. One example is insurance agency Benson Kearley IFG (BKIFG).

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

He is a blogger from Canada who also helps people become financially independent, and you could say that’s one of his businesses apart from blogging. A very successful entrepreneur and one that is inspiring to me for many reasons are Micheal Dubin, the founder of Dollar Shave Club. Thanks to Tomek Mlodzki, PhotoAiD ! #4-

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. In all outsourcing cases, a detailed specification is required.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Noufal Mais is a successful optometrist and entrepreneur who has established multiple eyecare businesses in Western Canada. He is the Founder and CEO of The Eye Centre franchise which operates in four locations, with two more scheduled to open this year.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2015

Arthur Pait is the co-founder and President of AVer Information Inc. Americas, currently overseeing USA, Canada and Latin America operations. These fees can get very expensive quickly and should be factored into the total cost of ownership for your VC system.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Stef Lewandowski , co-founder of Makeshift.io, which has launched apps attending.io , hiremyfriend.io domain also references “input/output”, something that Courtney Boyd Myers , founder of audience.io says founder Kellee Khalil. My co-founder] Gavin thought of it, but really knew we wanted a.io “These new.io io” as well.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 25, 2012

ARIN’s region consists of Canada, the US, and parts of the Caribbean. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception through early 2009. Add in all of the corporate servers, public web sites, servers for cloud computing services, and it is apparent why 4.3

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Patricia Hudson, the founder and president of Melos Institute (an applied research and learning center for membership-based organizations) says, “Leaders are born but are trained.” You can streamline the process for increasing board effectiveness when you choose the right areas for board member education and training.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. Despite not having formal coding skills or startup experience, Pamela became a founder by using Facebook as her platform.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

Today, Voices.com is one of the fastest-growing companies in Canada—not too shabby for a business that began life at the kitchen table. “I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 15, 2019

[ Download MP3 | Transcript Coming Soon | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] I first met Jay Wong in person in Toronto Canada, very soon after I moved there after leaving Australia. At the time his podcast, The Inner Changemaker, was still new, but I could tell Jay was going places. He […].

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

He returned to his hometown of Toronto in 2003, where he has since led multiple ventures, including the launch of “Games On Wheels Canada” ( gamesonwheels.ca ). During this time, Mascoll also wrote, produced and directed the documentary short, “No Place Like Home,” for Hospital Audiences Inc.,

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Part of the discussion around this is the talk about the founder who only got $83M (as compared to $3xxM for the other founders) who bailed out early and choose to go back to school. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision. in Computer Science.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

For a nearby global perspective, Canada has rated the 7th best country in the world to start a business by Business Insider. Take a look at five of Canada’s best startup cities. According to a First Round survey , the number of startup founders in their twenties falls somewhere around 20 percent. While it is true that 51.6

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Speaking to TechCrunch , Dimensional Energy founder and CEO Jason Salfi said: “The extraction and production of hydrocarbons has resulted in not only climate change but the displacement of indigenous people globally and myriad environmental catastrophes,” “Dimensional Energy makes a replacement for oil from carbon dioxide and water. .”

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I recently had the chance to ask Five Questions of Nick Bastone , its founder and main author. There’s also Andrew Wilkinson’s team up in Canada called OMG that has its own family of local newsletters. Here they are! Hunter Walk: Ok, I read SF Minute every weekday. Each company has its own style and voice, but the idea is the same.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

For the last 15 years, Bo Zou, who works and lives in Toronto, has been developing and executing experience strategy and design through all digital channels for companies like HeathWallace in Asia, and Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Canada, along with his own experience design studio in Toronto.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The next markets that the product will enter are USA and Canada. During the Vernadsky Challenge 2017 final round, Max Polyakov, Association Noosphere’s founder, admitted that this challenge wasn’t organized exclusively for the partaking teams.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2018

Last week, I wrote a post talking about why Canada Is Going To Be The Next, Great, Entrepreneurial Tech Country. I’ve watched Matt and team build a strong portfolio of companies in Canada and in parts of the US. Every time I’ve gone to Toronto, Matt has hosted me for something and introduced me to a bunch of founders.

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