We’ve challenged our Startup Train passengers to record a 30 second video stating their success metric for taking our train to Startup Festival. As Alistair wrote, this is all about dodging the boondoggles. Our goal is to post as many of these videos as we can to our Vimeo page before we get on the […]
[Editor’s Note: For our Startup Train this year, we’re asking all our passengers to decide their metric for attending the conference and share that. As we contemplated how to explain that, we figured who better than our friend Alistair Croll who just co-wrote Lean Analytics with Ben Yoskovitz] boon·dog·gle (ˈbo͞onˌdägəl) Noun: Work or activity that […]
UPDATE: We’ve moved our pre-event Toronto event to June 10th. In partnership with Via Rail, we’re hosting a pre Startup Train meetup May 29th June 10th. It’s a wine and cheese in the Panorama Lounge in Union Station. If you’re already bought your ticket for the train then this is a chance to meet some […]
EDIT: It’s a bit of a challenge in this large venue to hunt me down so let’s add twitter to the mix. Post a tweet with both #startuptrain and #meshcon to be entered into our starving startup ticket draw. I’m excited to be attending Mesh Conference the next two days. I’m also hoping to make […]
What if you could get some serious, focused time with over 120 of the best from Ontario’s entrepreneur and startup scene? Not just a stand and listen speaking event followed by some ‘social’ time, which only the desperate few stick around for. I’m talking about five hours literally locked on a train, nowhere to hide, […]
The message is the medium. Or, is it the other way around? In any case, new mediums for startup pitches are taking the ‘boring’ out of ‘bored-room’ and encouraging startups to get creative. I witnessed this first-hand on last year’s Startup Train on the way to Montreal’s Startup Festival. Even while pitching on a moving train […]
Our Startup Train last year was good. 50+ of us travelled together and by the time we returned home, most of us had met and knew a bit about each other’s projects. We speak with a lot of train alumni who have stayed connected and are even working together on projects. This year we’d like […]
For those who were with us last year, you’ll know about the Glen Fraser car we had on the return trip home. Our plan this year for the trip there, is to have two full first class cars plus the Glen Fraser placed in between those two cars. Everyone will have a seat on one […]
Last year we took a small leap here. We commissioned a private first class Via rail car for a round trip to Montreal. The destination was the International Startup Festival. For a peek at last year’s trip, check out Qasim’s post and photos. Why? I still don’t know the answer to that. It seemed like […]
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, […]
