Founder’s Club recap for January 9th meeting… Thanks to Ali Asaria from well.ca for dropping by. The most interesting tangent for me was this concept of how crazy you have to be to attempt creating a (insert dollar figure) dollar company. As well, if you show signs of success on that path, it’s very likely […]
Founder’s Club recap for our December 12th meeting… [Give] Dave Bullock of Fongo dove into his approach for identifying market opportunities. Instead of creating new markets or developing nascent ones, Dave described his love for disruption. Ripe for the taking are massive markets where the incumbents are equally huge and stuck in a perpetual tug […]
Founder’s Club recap for our December 5th meeting… [Give] Matthew Sharpe of Daring Boy shared the value of allowing your personality to come through in the design process. Taking the time to step back from the colours and nuts and bolts of building to remember why you’re building your business and then allowing the design […]
Founder’s Club recap for our October 24th meeting… I realize this is getting old but we had yet another full house last night at Founder’s Club. We had a great mix of people building both tech and non-tech businesses which was awesome. Thanks for everyone who came out. Scott led a discussion on landing page […]
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. […]
[Guest post by Scott Allen of SightMetrics.com] A group of local entrepreneurs kicked off a new event series called “Landing Page and Website Optimization” this week at 349. Not surprisingly, based on the title of the event series, we’re rolling up our sleeves and taking a hard look at actionable tips, tactics, and tools that […]
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 […]
(Guest Post by Steve Holub) This could be a single sentence blog post – feedback is massively important. End of story. But there’s a little more to it than that. I work closely with a business partner (my dad) and a couple of other colleagues, and I have for years. After a while, you start to […]
A friend mentioned today that naming our upcoming DemoCampGuelph inspired event “DemoCampGuelph Old School” was confusing. Some people may think we’re stopping the existing DCG and replacing it with these events. To clarify, DCG proper is not changing. All we’re doing here at ThreeFortyNine is hosting a smaller, more intimate event inspired by the early […]
