Updates
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Jul 10th, 2018
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Mentor and CIO Lounge Schedule
Jul 6th, 2018 -
A Startup’s guide to Startupfest 2018
Jun 27th, 2018 -
Visitez la tente gouvernementale : vous y rencontrerez des gens qui ont à cœur votre succès!
Jun 26th, 2018 -
Startupfest introduces #CannabisFest, and a Cannabus road trip from Toronto to Montreal for the inaugural event
Jun 15th, 2018 -
Diagram Fintech Innovation Open
Jun 4th, 2018 -
5 ways to attend Startupfest for (practically) FREE
May 18th, 2018 -
Introducing the Startupfest 2018 Inclusion Initiative
May 3rd, 2018 -
Cannabiz – The New Canadian Frontier
Apr 5th, 2018 -
When Tech Worlds Collide: Welcome Hong Kong!
Mar 15th, 2018 -
Smart Women Know Smart Women: How to Attract and Retain Women at Tech Events
Mar 8th, 2018 -
Trust and Integrity Cannot Be Written Into a Contract
Mar 6th, 2018 -
How To Get The Highest ROI Out Of Conferences
Mar 1st, 2018 -
Business Plans: Absolute Must or Hindrance?
Feb 13th, 2018 -
Startupfest 2018: INFINITE POSSIBILITIES
Jan 16th, 2018 -
SKYY is the limit – Rules and Regulations
Jan 11th, 2018 -
Business Development. Partnerships + Growth
Oct 5th, 2017 -
Marketing Coordinator
Oct 5th, 2017 -
Web/Tech Manager
Oct 5th, 2017 -
Want to be part of the team behind Canada’s largest startup and entrepreneurship event?
Oct 5th, 2017 -
Join Startupfest’s dynamic team as the Assistant Content Manager
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Administrative/Office Assistant
Oct 5th, 2017 -
Logistics Coordinator
Oct 4th, 2017 -
Startupfest Winner’s Circle 2017
Jul 15th, 2017 -
A Startup’s guide to Startupfest
Jul 8th, 2017 -
CIO Lounge Schedule
Jul 6th, 2017 -
Mot des Ministres
Jul 6th, 2017 -
Element AI and Radio-Canada’s AI Challenge
Jun 28th, 2017 -
Flixel’s Lucky Break
Jun 22nd, 2017 -
Braindates: Learn from People Around You at Startupfest
Jun 21st, 2017 -
Meet the 7 startups who will vie for best onstage pitch
Jun 21st, 2017 -
THE $100K INVESTMENT PRIZE
Jun 8th, 2017 -
Startupfest Winners: Where are they now?
Jun 5th, 2017 -
It pays to pitch at Startupfest- literally.
May 25th, 2017 -
STARTUPFEST 2017 WANTS STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS: JULY 12-15, 2017
May 11th, 2017 -
Startupfest 2017 Manifesto – Lucky Seven
Jan 6th, 2017 -
My first experience at Startupfest by: Janice Taylor
Sep 28th, 2016 -
Startupfest is Hiring!
Sep 1st, 2016 -
The Winners are Announced!!
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Jul 14th, 2016
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Two More Startupfest Firsts:
Jul 10th, 2016 -
$200K Investment Prize – Process and FAQ’s
Jun 30th, 2016 -
Meet the judges you need to impress
Jun 29th, 2016 -
Play Startupfest! (Yes, We Said Play It…)
Jun 22nd, 2016 -
Meet the 12 startups who will vie for Best Onstage Pitch
Jun 20th, 2016 -
gagnants: Concours AUVERGNE – RHÔNE-ALPES
May 24th, 2016 -
THE GRANDMOTHERS’ CHOICE AWARD
May 17th, 2016 -
Hey students, has Startupfest got a deal for you
Apr 28th, 2016 -
BDC Capital and Startupfest join forces
Apr 7th, 2016 -
Montréal et Paris révèlent les 16 lauréates
Apr 6th, 2016 -
Startupfest is not just for startups anymore!
Apr 6th, 2016 -
Where are they now?
Feb 18th, 2016 -
$100K Prize; the 10 people you need to impress
Feb 4th, 2016 -
2015 Startupfest Winner’s Circle
Feb 4th, 2016 -
#StartupfestLove
Feb 4th, 2016 -
2016 Theme: Firsts
Feb 4th, 2016 -
We’ve got ONE wildcard spot left to pitch onstage @Startupfest 2015!
Jul 13th, 2015 -
Message to all Participants
Jul 13th, 2015 -
CONVERTIBLE LOAN AGREEMENT
Jul 9th, 2015 -
Startup Basecamp Montreal is offering FREE accommodation to 4 lucky startups coming to Startupfest!
Jul 3rd, 2015 -
Startupfest has a REALLY good offer if you’re in the New York Startup Scene
Jul 2nd, 2015 -
Startupfest has something for the whole family Saturday, July 18th!
Jun 24th, 2015 -
Announcing the 10 Startups Pitching Onstage at Startupfest this Summer – 2 Wild Card Spots Left
Jun 17th, 2015 -
New Venue: Startupfest takes over industrial port-side haven
May 15th, 2015 -
After a month in Paris… I’m on cloud nine
Jan 28th, 2015 -
How Three Days at Startupfest Changed My Startup: Heddoko
Jan 9th, 2015 -
Next Floor… The Eiffel Tower
Dec 10th, 2014 -
Startupfest 2015 Manifesto
Nov 13th, 2014 -
Winning a Presidential Election: A talk with Harper Reed
Jul 29th, 2014 -
And the winners are…
Jul 11th, 2014 -
The Mentors
Jul 8th, 2014 -
The lowdown on our new additions: the ideaBOOST Accelerator Prize and MAtv Prize
Jul 3rd, 2014 -
Convertible Loan Agreement
Jun 28th, 2014 -
Investor Rights Agreement
Jun 28th, 2014 -
Bringing Back the Open House Day
Jun 27th, 2014 -
Meet the Judges you Need to Impress
Jun 26th, 2014 -
What does it take to build a smart city?
Jun 23rd, 2014 -
Startupfest Claims Private Island for 2014 Event
May 22nd, 2014 -
How to Get Meetings with the People You Need to Meet
May 20th, 2014 -
Startupfest’s Content Chair, Alistair Croll, Makes Festival Predictions
May 8th, 2014 -
Meet Heather and Renée, two of this year’s MC’s
Apr 25th, 2014 -
It may be time to cash in those Bitcoins you’ve been hoarding
Feb 5th, 2014 -
Ryan’s take on the Elevator World Tour – Tel Aviv
Jan 8th, 2014 -
Startupfest 2014: Startups and the City
Dec 12th, 2013 -
Facebook Acquires Startupfest Winner for $150+ Million and the Grandmothers Called It!
Oct 21st, 2013 -
Thanks so much for your feedback!
Aug 3rd, 2013 -
Thanks so much for your feedback!
Aug 2nd, 2013 -
Thanks so much for your feedback!
Aug 1st, 2013 -
In Case you Missed the Winner Announcements Onstage!
Jul 16th, 2013 -
The $70K Investment prize winner and runner ups are…
Jul 12th, 2013 -
And the 9 $80k Investment Prize finalists are…
Jul 12th, 2013 -
Business Books You Should Be Reading According to Startupfest’s 70K Investment Prize Judges
Jul 5th, 2013 -
Meet the lovely Grandmother Judges
Jul 5th, 2013 -
The Startupfest 2013 artwall embodies our “startup stories” theme
Jul 2nd, 2013 -
Why should Montréal, Startupfest’s hometown, be considered one of the world’s top 20 startup ecosystems?
Jun 26th, 2013 -
Video Interview: entrepreneur and Lean Workshop co-host Alistair Croll Discusses Lean Analytics Startups
Jun 25th, 2013 -
What’s the scoop on the Startupfest Lean Workshop? Interview with “Lean Entrepreneur” authors
Jun 18th, 2013 -
The low-down on our biggest prize & its judges: the Startupfest $70k Investment Prize
Jun 17th, 2013 -
Interested in grabbing a tent or demo table at our Open House? Startups, here’s your chance!
Jun 14th, 2013 -
Interview with Shopify CPO Startupfest “break-out” session speaker Harley Finkelstein!
Jun 12th, 2013
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3 of our favorite MakerBloks moments at the International Startup Festival
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A few months ago
Heddoko was just an idea. We ended up being selected in the top 3 for the 100K Investment prize, and top 3 for the Videotron Business Solution prize. An amazing opportunity to validate that we are heading in the right direction.
– Mazen Elbawab,
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The Best Festival I’ve ever been to? Startupfest Montreal
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Ode to Startupfest
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Snipcart – 4 Reasons to Attend the International Startup Festival
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2014 was my first year to
attend the Startup Festival, and now I have a feeling of regret for the years I haven’t attended. This isn’t just a conference, it is a community.
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Over the course of 3 days, we had the opportunity to meet startups from around the globe and were impressed by the amount of creativity and entrepreneurship present on site. – Steve Berard, Québecor Média inc.
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Heddoko – 5 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM STARTUPFEST
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What an experience for an old man like me to be mixing for two days with amazingly bright, young men and women who are determined to change the world. – Dr. Colin Harrison, Distinguished Engineer Emeritus
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How Gymtrack scored a 500 Startups invite from Dave McClure
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How Three Days at Startupfest Changed My Startup: Heddoko
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“Bringing emotional intelligence to the digital world”
The digital world is hyper-connected and smart. Modern day technology has high IQ but no EQ, emotional intelligence. MIT Media Lab spin-off Affectiva’s emotion sensing and analytics technology enriches our lives by digitizing emotion. Fortune 500 companies can now better understand consumer emotional engagement and correlate to behavioral outcomes, and developers can emotion-enable digital experiences and apps to make them more interactive and responsive to our emotional state in real time. Learn how emotions are analyzed today and where this will go in the future.
“On innovation”
Every business needs to innovate, but where do you start? In this presentation, Terry Jones explores the fundamentals of innovation and gives leaders simple but powerful ideas they can use to create a more innovative organization. Drawing from his experiences as the founder of Travelocity.com, founding Chairman of Kayak.com and Chairman of Wayblazer, Jones helps audiences turn innovation from an academic exercise into an everyday skill. The stories from his career and personal experiences not only provide well-chosen real world illustrations of how challenging, and ultimately rewarding it can be to gather a team and establish a culture that is open to change, he gives audiences step-by-step plans to create it.
“The birth of mirth: When Just for Laughs was a startup”
Before it became the majestic monster of mirth it is now, Just For Laughs was just another crazy idea in the head of a wide-eyed, deeply-driven entrepreneur. Take a trip back to the early ’80s with founder Gilbert Rozon, who will regale you with traumatic tales of getting the world’s first comedy festival off the ground. Session will be moderated by Andy Nulman, the only person on earth who can validate the authenticity of Gilbert’s wild stories.
How to build a high performance growth team
Growth teams across Silicon Valley and beyond are driving unprecedented results. But contrary to popular mythology, their results are not based on a grab bag of secret growth hacks. Instead, these growth teams are applying a rigorous process of testing and analysis to uncover and optimize sustainable and scalable growth drivers. Sean’s presentation will explain how and when to implement this proven growth process at your startup.
“The tip of the iceberg at Rent the Runway”
Rent the Runway is an iceberg of a business: when you look at the website you only see the smallest bit above the surface. Below the surface is the hugely complex array of people and systems that we use to fulfill the promise we make to our customers to deliver a Cinderella experience.
To frame the problem, imagine that you are building Netflix, only instead of shipping out DVDs, you are shipping out thousand dollar dresses. And those dresses have to get to someone in time to be worn to a big event, say, her prom night. Then they come back to us, to be inspected, cleaned, repaired, and sent off to the next Cinderella who needs them. This is the operational challenge that Rent the Runway has had to attack over the past 4 years of its existence. We describe our problem as “reverse logistics”, far from just pick pack ship, we have to think a lot about the return phase of the order and how we can quickly process things coming in to enable them to go back out again.
I will discuss about how we have gone from a system run manually via Google Docs to one that runs on a network of event-driven services that coordinate the operations of hundreds of staff shipping tens of thousands of orders a week. This is a story about marrying complex technology, logistics and data considerations to physical processes that require large numbers of people making time-sensitive decisions. There are a few interesting key points of change in the story, from manual tracking to semi-automated to redesigning the entire warehouse flow (and entire software stack) to support real time inventory adjustment and same-day processing.
The state of starting a startup
State of starting a startup Building a startup is a rollercoaster of some of the highest highs and the lowest lows. Learn the real, no-BS stories of Shane Mac (Assist), Greg Isenberg (5by), Ian Hunter (Buzzstarter) and Jonathan Lieberman (Operator), all of whom have raised millions of dollars of venture capital on just an idea, have almost run out of money many times, hired some of the world’s best talent, and designed websites like MLB, Mint, Techcrunch and so on.
“Humor as a survival mechanism”
Harper Reed will share stories and talk about his time as the CTO of the Obama Campaign and how one of the ways he was able to survive the highly stressful, highly competitive and rather complicated work environment was through humor. Expect naughty words. Or not. He’s not sure yet. 😉