SM is based in Ottawa Canada - birth home to comedian Tom Green. (A good friend of ours BTW ) Ottawa is also home to some significant business activities in the green sector. I’m not talking about “green-washing” - but real technological solutions. One VC firm based here focuses on [...]
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SM friend Alec Saunders announced yesterday that his Ottawa-based company iotum secured funding from VERDEXUS as well as appointing chairman Randall Horward. Now iotum has two Horwards!
iotum has had great success in the past few weeks with its Facebook application Free Conference Calls. It offers a super easy interface to schedule [...]
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Never had a holiday on the lovely beaches of the Principality of Sealand? You’re not likely. Sealand is about 5 miles east of the UK. It’s a man-made gun platform built during the second world war. In 1967, retired major Paddy Bates took over the platform and declared it a sovereign [...]
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It had to come… Launching this fall is this grand social net site. There doesn’t even appear to be a closed beta going on. I guess these folks have a solid business plan because TheAlarmClock reports Grandparents.com just got funded by Laser Partners and is now headed by Jerry Shereshewsky - a [...]
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The VCs seem to think it’s a good idea… NY-based MeetMoi just scored a $1.5m investment. Mashing Location Based Services and dating sites, MeetMoi allows registered users to communicate with people near them. Unlike free web2.0 services, they charge 99 cents for 10 text messages. There’s a few issues: [...]
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Salesforce.com is of course the big gorilla of Software as a Service. This is software so good that Salesforce has the audacity to charge people $65 a month to use it. But this company isn’t just CRM - through its AppExchange, it’s also become the largest on demand catalog of other SaaS [...]
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Although it loses marks for poor spelling, BC-based CelPhinder is a cool startup that provides 911 location locking as well as “panic button” functionality for mobile workers. I’m surprised more companies haven’t capitalized on the personal safety / paranoia segment. There’s already a huge industry in pager-style panic buttons - so [...]
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Unfortunate ad placements are funny. Well maybe not for the advertiser. Boston-based ScanScout announced yesterday a $7 million Series A investment. Their product helps advertisers position their ads next to appropriate or relevant video. I hope this doesn’t eliminate unfortunate ad placement!
Here’s a recent ad for Yahoo at AT&T Park… (via The Baseball Zealot)
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I’ll admit a strange quirk about myself - I actually enjoy presenting to VCs. Given a reasonable set of expectations, a good VC can give you constructive feedback and occasionally, valuable insights (and it’s free!). Before I first got exposed to this world, I had assumed that all VCs were the same - I imagined [...]
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Australian-based MIG33 announced yesterday a 10 m. series A round. This is the same company that won the “favourite startup” award at eTel earlier this year.
The MIG33 product is a java app that resides on a mobile phone. It’s used to control all aspects of user communition including VoIP calling, SMS, chat, and even setting [...]
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