[This was cross-posted with our friends at StartupNorth] First, a quick quiz…For this quiz, time is important as we want your gut instinct so you only have five seconds to answer before the submit button goes away. It’s multiple choice, there are only two options and you simply need to select one. When you’re ready, […]
In this series of posts we’re “grilling” the mentors of the Startupify program with the hope of discovering who is best able to answer a standardized set of questions. Points for accuracy and un-originality will be assigned. Actually we’re just trying to learn more about them .. the kind of stuff that doesn’t appear in boilerplate bios. […]
Think very carefully about who’s in your company. By company I mean the truest sense of the word, who do you keep company with, not who’s an employee or member. “The word company is derived from the Latin cum and pane, which means ‘breaking bread together’”, The Start-up of You Your network is massively important […]
We’ve been working away with the folks at Kap Design on an infographic to attempt to describe what coworking’s really about. It was a very cool process and it was interesting to learn how these images come together and the work it takes to convey information clearly. Jamie wrote some about the process on their […]
The hardest part of creating awesome landing pages, websites etc has nothing to do with html5, css, or python. It’s isn’t about SEO optimization or building your site for the robots. It’s about humans and I’m going to give you the secret right here and now. Steve Krug wrote a book titled Don’t Make Me Think. […]
If you know me, you know I have a paper and pen fetish. It’s ok, I’m ok. Sharing that fetish with others led us to becoming a Field Notes retailer here at ThreeFortyNine. Recently Field Notes created the craziest notebook most of us have ever seen, named the Expedition Edition. Finally a use for my […]
ThreeFortyNine is excited to announce that by August 1, 2013 it will become the first fully online coworking space in North America. To commemorate this monumental event its name will be changed to ThreeFortyNineOnline. Traditional coworking spaces are physical, but we live in the future. For years, people have been chasing the paperless office. That […]
In 2009, my wife and I moved to Guelph from Toronto. I had been running my own one-person, independent games company for a little over a year and I was loving it. Toronto has a huge indie games community that I had been involved with. I had started a monthly meet-up for mobile developers in […]
You never forget your first time. It’s exciting but awkward. You hope it’s going to go really well but it doesn’t take as long as you thought it would. You’re left wondering if that’s what all the fuss was about and if it gets better. At least, that’s how my first idea extraction call went; […]
An idea for a hackathon event I’m looking for some feedback on…. What’s liberating about kid’s games like Yamodo is the lack of fear of the blank page. You’re provided the beginnings of a sketch along with a made up word. You need to write the first line of it’s definition, add to the sketch and then […]
