From May 22-25, C2-MTL, the newest breed of business conference, will bring together business, creativity, left brains, right brains, and some of the most innovative thinkers in today’s international business world. The awesome news is that the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation is looking to sponsor 25 emerging entrepreneurs to attend (approximately a $3000 value).
That’s where you come in.
If you’re looking to innovate, improve, promote, learn, and think outside the box when it comes to your business, C2-MTL is for you. You’ll have the chance to learn from the best innovators, be mentored by the best in their fields, exchange ideas openly, and come away with a wealth of tools, connections, and knowledge to help you further improve your business.
Follow this link to apply by Wednesday, March 21st, 2012, at 5:00 PM and you could be one of the 25 entrepreneurs selected to attend. Winners will be selected by a panel appointed by the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation.
Businesses must be based in Quebec and be within their first 3 years of operation to be eligible.
The Start-Up Career Fair is a yearly event held by MUSE (mcgillentrepreneurs.com) which allows start-ups to connect with McGill students who are looking for summer internships or even full-time opportunities.
The event is being broadcasted across all faculties but with the emphasis on Engineering/Computer Science and Business.
Join them Friday, February 10th on the 2nd floor of the Bronfman Building (1001 Sherbrooke West).
FounderFuel is looking for someone who is passionate about startups to assist with the day-to-day tasks of running the program. You must be willing to commit to the equivalent of a full time position for 14 weeks from February 20th to May 25th 2012.
Tasks include, but are not limited to: – Organizing meetings for guest mentor visits; – Helping the next cohort in areas they need; – Preparing logistics for upcoming events; – Being an active contributor on Twitter, Facebook and the FounderFuel blog; – Etc.
You are: – A “Jack/Jane of all trades” interested in Startups, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Technology, etc. – Ready to take on any task. – Self-driven and proactive. – Eager to learn and meet new people. – Someone who likes to work hard and play hard. – Available days, evenings or whenever needed.
What’s in it for you? – Get access to everything that happens during the program: Master Classes, Workshops, Mentor Day, Demo Day, etc. – Grow your network faster than you can ever believe. – Contribute to the success of the startups as they accelerate their business leading up to Demo Day. – Develop an intimate connection to Montreal’s thriving startup ecosystem. – Office space at Notman House, Montreal’s home of the web.
What to expect? – Tons of unique learning experience via influential startup veterans. – Hard work in return of huge networking benefits.
Interested? Please submit the following to info@founderfuel.com: – A paragraph (or two tops) telling us why we’d be crazy not to hire you. – Your resume – Links: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter, About.Me, Blog, Etc.
It’s mid January already, and the “Best of 2011″ wrap-ups are getting old, but this one is definitely worth having a look at. There’s so much content out there that it’s often really easy to get carried away ready through it all.
From the author, Tom Eisenmann Professor at Harvard Business School who studies lean startups, entrepreneurship, platforms, and network effects author:
“Here’s my compilation of 2011′s best posts about managing startups. I assembled similar lists at the end of 2010 and 2009. Please use comments to suggest additional posts. Happy New Year!”
Today we are very excited to share the news about Playerize who just closed their A round.
From the VentureBeat story that made the announcement today:
“Playerize, a company that helps game studios find more players for their online and mobile games, raised $1 million in its first round of funding.
“Playerize uses display advertising through blog networks to help find new players for mobile and social games. For example, if a game studio creates a puppy themed game, we would place a display ad on a puppy related website to drive players to the game,” Playerize co-founder Lyal Avery told VentureBeat. Avery noted that Playerize’s main competitors, Nanigans and Ad Parlor, only focus on Facebook ads.”
Congrats to Jeff, Lyal and the entire Playerize team!
Two positions are open, one in Montreal and one in Vancouver:
Playerize is VC-funded startup living in the space where Social Games, Commerce, and Marketing meet.
Playerize (the social and mobile game growth company) is hunting for a full-time developer for a diverse set of web projects including websites, dashboards, API creation, and even game platforms! We’re tackling huge opportunities in a very fast-moving industry, and this is a great opportunity for you to dive in and influence everything we do.
Here’s what we need:
The functional:
- You have plenty of experience cranking out projects in PHP. You organize your projects so that they can be worked on by others, and you use templating and string tables where needed.
- You know SQL, and can create and query tables in MySQL. You’re not afraid of joins, and you wield indexes like they’re your useful little bitches.
- You use source control so smoothly and frequently that it’s like breathing.
- You love to fill a task manager with your todos and then spend the day demolishing them in order of priority.
- If you (in addition to PHP) can do these, then we will throw you parties: Javascript, JQuery, Drupal modules, Facebook API.
- You can optimize bubblesort for a double-linked list of pointers with paper and pen. (KIDDING. Please don’t send code samples of compiler optimization. We’d rather see your drupal module)
The person (that’s you!):
- You enjoy beer and laughing. (Exceptions made for other types of cocktails, but not for the laughter part)
- You are happy having ownership and control of a project. We are a small team, and while we work to a high standard we will not be over-managing with specs.
- You are not afraid of a chocolate lab.
What you can expect:
- Fast growth, we plan to hire 5-10 people in the next three months.
- Gastown office
- Flexible hours, with some opportunity to work from home
We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished to date, but there’s a lot more work to do and we’re dedicating to achieving the results we’re aiming for. We need help to do this!
Email us at jobs@playerize.com to fill us in on your experience and passions, and let us know how you will kick serious ass at this and how you will work with us to drive our success.
Wow! When news like this comes out, it makes us so proud to be part of Montreal’s startup.
Have a look at what OnStartups had to say about our city:
“Best big push by a city to build a startup ecosystem: Montreal.
From very little in 2009, the startup tribe there has launched a new incubator last year (FounderFuel), gotten big institutional and government support from the province to create funds to match angel investments and subsidize programmers, built the largest angel group in Canada soon to be one of the largest in North America (AngesQuebec), hosted a successful first international startup festival, pulled off a successful startup competition, and created a vibrant co-working space (Notman House). And it keeps on going.”
Jeremy Toeman, FounderFuel mentor and serial entrepreneur, yesterday wrote a great article on what it takes to mentor a startup.
“I open every new relationship by saying “I trust you have friends and family to tell you how amazing you are and how this startup will change the world. That’s not my job.” There’s a great blog post on “stop being so nice” here, and I agree with it all the way. I’m not mentoring when I’m ignoring flaws in the business model, or go-to-market strategy. I’m not being helpful when I say the app “has potential.” It’s when I help dive into these issues, and keep asking the “why is that true?” or “and how exactly will you do that?” questions that I’m being a good mentor. “
Today we’re very excited to announce a new partnership with Jet Cooper, Canada’s leading user experience agency.
As part of their Design in Residence (“DiR”) program, Jet Cooper will support the next cohort as they look to find product-market fit, by applying lean principles and an agile approach to design.
Future FounderFuel teams will be able to list design as a key differentiator in an increasingly competitive space, where every user, dollar and pageview counts. The focus will be on measuring success through product desirability and user adoption, rather than simply getting to market with a working product.
The package each DiR startup will receive includes:
- On-Site Presentations
To be delivered as part of our calendar of activities on best practices, case studies, and user experience design processes.
- UX Workshops
One-on-one sessions with each startup to help guide conceptualization, architecture, user goals and feedback, and inform the product roadmap.
- Office Hours
Available on an ongoing and scheduled basis both in-person and on-call. This time will be used for follow-up, problem-solving, and ideation.
Jet Cooper will ultimately be delivering on an area of essential knowledge that startups often have less exposure to in their founding teams, and will also be offering additional support as needed by our teams.
