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Zack & Miri Make a Startup

October 17th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois No comments

A few hours ago, SM friend Ian Graham pinged me saying he had screening passes to Kevin Smith's new movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno. All you had to do was visit Ian's Code Factory in Ottawa to pick up the passes. Alas, they were gone in no time! I'm a big ...

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Can you ever completely let your startup free?

October 14th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 4 comments
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Jobe and I founded a company called anbiun in 1999. We got VC funding - grew it to 50 people. When the investors pulled out we let anbiun free... The name spells "unique" upside down (assuming you're using the right font). We let the domain go too. Up until now, ...

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re-inventing the DemoCamp eXperience

September 30th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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It seems every city that has had a successful run of BarCamps / DemoCamps / *Camps has eventually slammed into a wall of controversy. Look at SM friend David Crow - he's had more of his fair share of problems with the hugely popular Toronto Camps: stolen beer kegs, sexism, whinning about location, violent ...

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Charlotte’s Web: It takes a village to launch a product

April 7th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Our regular Saturday night family movie got bumped up to Friday this weekend. That's when we fire up the LCD projector an watch a cool movie on the big screen. Today it was the newly released dvd of Charlotte's Web. This story has lived with me for a long time - the book in elementary ...

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