Joining Hill+Knowlton Strategies

I wanted to formally share some exciting news from my professional life. Effective yesterday, Ascentum Inc has been acquired and will be joining the Hill+Knowlton Strategies family.  I’ve been with Ascentum for 3 years and as you probably know Ascentum specializes in helping businesses, government and not-for-profit organizations facilitate and create dialogue with stakeholders via online, […]

The problem with Dropbox Teams

I’ve been a long time user of Dropbox and have had the 100GB personal account for several years now. I’ve been very happy with the way the system works and I’ve setup it up on all my computing devices. My wife now shares the account and we use it to save files we want backed […]

Well.ca gets Funding

Well.ca has announced funding today from a group angels, including the Maple Leaf Angels in Toronto. I first met Ali Asaraia, Well.ca founder & CEO, at a Maple Leaf Angels breakfast meeting. I was impressed with how well Ali presented the opportunity and I knew it was only a matter of time before he’d getting […]

Openness

I wrote earlier about StartupCamp and I was impressed to see all the companies that have applied disclosed as part of the review process. Anyone can see the applicants here: StartupCampToronto1 I’m a big fan of openness as part of a review process. I think it helps both the quality of the event and the […]

Platform Partnership

I forgot to mention Platform Partnership as part of my DemoCampToronto9 write-up. Platform Partnership didn’t actual present but they did do an annoucement at the being about their service. Basically they provide a connection service between the non-profit community and technology start-ups. The non-profit community gets access to new technology and technology start-ups get a […]

Canada as a Web Powerhouse

Over the past few months I’ve been very impressed with the quality of startups in Toronto and Canada in general. The list of startups that I’ve interacted with include: BubbleShare FreshBooks Nuvvo WildApricot And recently Flickr took the web by storm for photo sharing. There seems to be more and more every few weeks, most […]