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Most people will tell you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So if you’re in Montreal, and you’re interested in technology and entrepreneurship, you should think about joining us for breakfast on Tuesday, May 13th @ 9am at Bistro, Etc.

Here are the details:

• Tuesday, May 13th @ 9am
• Location: Bistro, Etc. - 1291 Avenue du Mont-Royal, E.
• Facebook Event Listing: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13095875628
• Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5502019497

We run the breakfast on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.

Anyone involved in technology + entrepreneurship (developers, startup entrepreneurs, curious people, angel investors, VCs, etc.) are welcome.

How time flies. It’s incredible. We’re already moving our way into April and I’m still catching up on things from two months ago! And meanwhile, there’s still too much snow on the ground. But anyway…April’s edition of the Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast is set to go on Tuesday, April 8th @ 9am. The details are below:

• Tuesday, March 11th @ 9am
• Location: Bistro, Etc. - 1291 Avenue du Mont-Royal, E.
• Facebook Event Listing: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13184066626
• Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5502019497

We run the breakfast on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.

Anyone involved in technology + entrepreneurship (developers, startup entrepreneurs, curious people, angel investors, VCs, etc.) are welcome.

I was very glad to see that someone recorded the recent Blitzweekend presentations. Stephane Daury did a great job recording everything, and I’ve enjoyed watching the presentations I didn’t see.

I gave a presentation at Blitzweekend about starting a company. It was a mixture of a few things including:

• how Standout Jobs started from within the Montreal tech community
• my personal history, and use of blogging & social media to build a reputation locally and beyond
• raising capital - the difficulties, tips, etc.
• my current struggles with balancing the 20,000 foot strategic view and day-to-day issues

The presentation is a bit longer than I intended it to be, but I’m pleased with the results. A bit more practice would have helped, and more point form notes instead of what I had written up to use. But I hope people enjoyed the presentation and got something out of it. Anyone?

Anyway, if you’re interested in learning more about Standout Jobs, where it came from and some of the lessons learned so far (and you want to see me “in action” - after all, who wouldn’t?!?!) please check out the presentation and let me know what you think.

The next Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast is coming up soon — scheduled for:

• Tuesday, March 11th @ 9am
• Location: Bistro, Etc. - 1291 Avenue du Mont-Royal, E.
• Facebook Event Listing: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13575190029
• Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5502019497

We run the breakfast on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.

Anyone involved in technology + entrepreneurship (developers, startup entrepreneurs, curious people, angel investors, VCs, etc.) are welcome.

Blitzweekend is coming up this weekend, and I’ve been asked to speak on Friday, February 29th. Looks like I’ll be doing the first presentation of the evening around 6pm.

Blitzweekend is a great event for entrepreneurs and soon-to-be entrepreneurs that want to test their mettle in a weekend of coding. Can you build an application in a weekend? It’s time to find out!

Blitzweekend runs all weekend with a variety of great presenters and activities. I’m sure everyone will enjoy it. And I think anything that brings the startup community together is a good thing, especially if it succeeds at interesting people at the University level (where things are lacking the most.)

In the meantime, I have a presentation to prepare. Hope to see you there!

Location: 1 rue St-Charles, Longueuil, in front of the Longueuil metro station.
Blitzweekend will take all the ground floor of Université de Sherbrooke’s Longueuil campus.