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Startup-Hunting at the End of the Earth

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I’m sitting in Buenos Aires now, but last week I was in Puyuehue. Yeah, I had no clue where that was either when I got talked into embarking on a 20-something-hour day of travel to get there. If you look at a map of South America and trace your finger to the very [...]

India is morphing into a global R&D hub, but can it ever take on Silicon Valley?

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When Americans think of the Indian technology sector, they still perceive a nation of call center workers and low-level computer programmers administering databases and updating websites. But while the West was sleeping, Indian IT morphed into a giant R&D machine. Indian companies that started out doing call center and low-level IT work have [...]

What Cleantech Should Learn from Nanotech (Before It’s too Late)

The difference with Web 2.0 is these sites and apps are incredibly cheap and quick to build and host.

Mobile Weekend Tickets Now Available!

The ticketing system is up and running. Buy your ticket here. Space is limited so sign up before they’re all gone.

The cost is $20.00 CAD per ticket. The money collected is used purely for the weekend to supplement sponsorship $ and provide the infrastructure needed to make this a successful weekend.

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What is Mobile Weekend?

That’s a great question. Mobile weekend follows in the tradition of Startup Weekend. I was lucky enough to have participated in Startup Weekend Toronto and Facebook Weekend Beta (and to have been one of the organizers). We’ve thought for a long time that Mobile would be a great forum for such an event. Here, in [...]