This room got HUGE!Posted from: CA, USAHoly wow. YC is a big...
This room got HUGE!Posted from: CA, USAHoly wow. YC is a big place these days.
View ArticleToronto: Why Are We Here? It’s winter right now, and that...
Toronto: Why Are We Here?It’s winter right now, and that means for those of us in the North-East it’s cold. We try to pretend that it’s a good thing; that it keeps us focused. But the reality is we...
View ArticleToronto: How We Hire The Best. So, you’ve got it all...
Toronto: How We Hire The Best.So, you’ve got it all figured out. You’ve noticed all the bad ass talent in Toronto [why we’re here], you’ve got yourself a swanky new office at Queen and Spadina [map]....
View ArticleWhy The F@*K Didn’t We Just Make An App?!?! I dont really...
Why The F@*K Didn’t We Just Make An App?!?!I dont really know. Maybe becauseNOT ALL INNOVATION WILL HAPPEN BECAUSE OF A FUCKING TOUCH SCREEN.Sorry. Got a little excited on that one. But seriously not...
View ArticleToronto: Dear Waterloo, It's Not A Zero Sum Game
When did the gauntlet get dropped between Canadian “cities” for some made up startup championship belt? Does Toronto really have to lose for Waterloo to win? What about Vancouver or Montreal? Can they...
View ArticleSad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup...
Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depressionimage by Frederico SpenglerI am currently in the midst of the deepest, darkest, and longest depression I have had in the last 2 years of...
View ArticleI JUST GOT CANDY FROM JAPAN!
Posted from: ON M5T 2Z3, CanadaThis is soooo cool! My new favorite startup is Candy Japan run by my new best friend Bemmu.Bemmu read my post on my startup depression, and like so many others sent me...
View ArticleBuild Your Own HardwareHardware store, Maca by Vincent...
Build Your Own HardwareHardware store, Maca by Vincent LuoI’m looking at the list of the largest software companies in the world, and there is something eerily similar about all of them, and it...
View ArticleChateau Upverter
Posted from: ON M5T 2A4, CanadaLet me tell you a little bit about where I live… the townhouse we lovingly refer to as the Upverter Hacker House. But first, let me tell you why.I have 5 biological...
View ArticleProst! I work with the most talented individuals I have ever had...
Prost!I work with the most talented individuals I have ever had the honor of working with in my life. They are each remarkable, complimentary and individually the best at what they each do. I’d even go...
View ArticleMy Coach & My Scorecard Image by Richard Findlay link I...
My Coach & My ScorecardImage by Richard Findlay linkI aspire to be a great CEO. I want to be on list with Elon and Branson and Bezos and Jobs. And if I play my cards right this may kill two birds...
View ArticleToronto Is Broken
Image by John Cavacas linkI’ve got bad news. And I don’t really know a better way to say it, so I’m just going to tear the bandaid off, one motion, no fucking around. Here goes…Toronto is broken.Ugly...
View Article25 Hardware Startups That Will Exist
We design through lenses.For a while the best lens we had was mechanical. Divinci invented some pretty incredible devices through this lens - things like helicopters that we only much later realized...
View ArticleLean Startup Day @ Mars
I spent a bit of time on Monday sitting on a lean startup panel at mars with my good friend David Crow. Sacha Chua was doing sketches of the talks and I found it kind of neat to see what someone else...
View ArticleDisruption: Hacking Startup Travel Image by Takk B I am...
Disruption: Hacking Startup TravelImage by Takk BI am currently in the midst of my once a quarter travelling-startup-CEO mega trip. This trip is by far the longest in a while and its got me thinking...
View ArticleThe Thing You Love image by Adrian Sommeling What is the thing...
The Thing You Loveimage by Adrian SommelingWhat is the thing that you love doing?The thing that you are amazingly good at and no one else seems to get? The thing you know you could do better if you...
View Article"The increase in internal energy of a closed system is equal to the...
“The increase in internal energy of a closed system is equal to the difference of the heat supplied to the system and the work done by it: ΔU = Q - W” -...
View ArticleHow A (Hardware) Hackathon Should Be Run
The following are a bunch of open source documents that we’ve been collecting at Upverter over the past bunch of hackathons we’ve run. Please take them, use them, and hack them. And obviously let me...
View Article8 Questions You Need To Ask Before You Throw A Hackathon
In an effort to help and to make sure the MaRS event never happens again, especially at an event we are associated with, here are some questions you should ask when setting your next hackathon.Why are...
View ArticleHow NOT to Run a (Hardware) Hackathon
Last weekend there were no less than 100 hackathons happening all over the US and Canada. They were held for a variety of reasons, everything from trying out new SDKs, to causing Social Good. I can’t...
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