Founder’s Club recap for our October 17th meeting…. Sweet fancy mary, I thought we had a full house last week. We packed them in last night. It was double rows and stadium seating. I started the night off talking about Brad Feld and his thesis about leaders and feeders. It quickly became clear we had […]
Founder’s Club recap for our October 10th meeting…. Scott led a discussion about selling expensive, high margin goods online. We seeded the discussion by reviewing MacKenzie & Marr and their model of selling guitars made in China online. It was clear to everyone in the room how important their Dragon’s Den appearance played in marketing. […]
I had a conversation yesterday that’s occurred a few times over the past year. In speaking with someone about what we’re up to at ThreeFortyNine, they commented about us being government funded or associated with other organizations here in town. To be clear, we have no government backing and it’s just us here. I’m certainly open […]
We’re looking for six startups local to KW, Guelph, or Toronto who’d benefit from being on our train to Startup Fest in Montreal in a couple of weeks. This is massive opportunity for some early stage startups to get focused time with other funders and founders, not to mention some national press folks. You’re on a train, […]
It took a while but we’ve finally figured out the deadline for our early bird pricing. All ticket prices will be going up by $100 on June 20th. Keep in mind, we have limited seating on our car so once we sell out, I can’t do nothin for ya man. Meaning there’s no guarantee we’ll […]
If you don’t already know, we’re taking a roadtrip to the International Startup Festival in Montreal this July….. You should go buy a ticket now because we only have one car on the train. We haven’t revealed all the tricks we have up our sleeves yet. At the festival in Montreal there will be a […]
We have a mix of people who cowork with us here at ThreeFortyNine. Some are freelancers who chase down their own gigs. Others are entrepreneurs running their own product based companies. We also have a lot of folks who have jobs in other cities such as Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo. They live in Guelph and commute to […]
(Note: Cross posted with ShiftMode.) What happens when you take the best parts of a good old roadtrip and mash it up with one of Canada’s coolest startup conference? I wasn’t sure either but ThreeFortyNine Roadtrips is my best guess. Travelling to and from conferences is a massive waste of time. You attend a great conference, hear […]
Pitch, one of our regular events here, has us playing a version of Dave McClure’s Half Baked game. You’re assigned two random words and a partner. You have 10 minutes to prepare and 2 minutes to pitch a business based on those two words. A room full of peers immediately offer you direct feedback on […]
I was first introduced to Field Notes and their products through their bootstrapped interview by 37 Signals. If you haven’t yet, please read the entire bootstrapped series! Field Notes is an interesting experiment in taking on what appears to be an established giant in a space that requires an off shoring model to succeed. “Coudal felt the big player […]