Good morning from Victoria…

Although Josh thought I had forgotten about DemoCampVictoria in my last post about Canadian tech events I hadn’t but since it’s next week, now is a good time for a little update.
Checking out the wiki I see the following folks are on the docket to present:
Why DemoCampVictoria was created (Mark Lise)
Fortuno (Jesse and Jason)
Genetify (Andrew)
BountyUp – Social Commerce (Joshua McKenty and Todd Khozein)
DailySplice (Rian)
Flock – the social web browser (Clayton Stark and other flockers)
Songbird (Steven Bengtson and Peter Van Hardenberg) Source: BarCamp wiki / DemoCampVictoria01

I hadn’t checked out Songbird in a long time, but maybe it’s time to finally give …read more

Rick Segal of JLA Ventures (JLA Ventures is one of the founders of b5media) is starting his Canadian tour of VC Roundtables starting in Eastern Canada:
April 14th Morning – Halifax NS
April 14th Evening – Moncton NB
April 15th Evening – St John’s NF

Here are the ground rules/information for entrepreneurs who would like to present ideas:

About 2 1/2- 3 hours in length
Informal/Free (super important!)
Small Groups (super important!)
Information on VC/Angels and the process.
Sample Term sheets, documents, business plans, PowerPoints
Example Pitch or Pitches to show what’s interesting/good/bad
Open questions for a good chunk of time. Source: The Post Money Value: VC Roundtable – Block One

Can’t …read more