From the monthly archives:

January 2008

When does the life of a startup really begin? Is it at the moment when you first have the spark of an idea? Is it when the company is incorporated? When you hire your first employee? Raise your first angel financing?
How about 2 weeks before you’re set to launch?
Recently, I announced that my startup, Standout [...]

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Yesterday I launched a new design for Instigator Blog. The feedback has been great – some positive, some negative (to be expected), and all of it interesting and important.
In my post announcing the new design, I wrote, “And, I’m writing a much more detailed post explaining the process I went through in redesigning the blog, [...]

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I thought I’d start 2008 with something new … so after many months and a few delays in-between, I’m very happy to launch the latest design for Instigator Blog!
If you’re reading this via RSS — come check it out…
This is a completely new design from my old one. And for this go around, I brought [...]

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A company blog is extremely challenging to do well. The biggest challenge (which is not unique to a company blog) is finding the time to do it. Everyone’s swamped and blogging was just never part of the plan. But it should be.
Blogging is the single best way of generating sustained, quality buzz for [...]

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Keeping with the schedule I started last year, the first Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast will be next Tuesday, January 8th at 9am. We’ll hold it at Bistro, Etc., located at 1291 Avenue du Mont-Royal, E.
I know some people have requested that we hold the breakfast at 8am. I’m not opposed to that, and maybe it [...]

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