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I love how they narrowed their focus to barbershops. One of the hardest parts of many startups is finding and staying focused on the right niche.
Barbershops appear to be their main niche, but they do have a similar focus on others. From their page. Resurva for Barbershops Resurva for Room Booking Resurva for Conferences Resurva for Salons Resurva for Spas Resurva for Massage Therapists
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There's a ton of established (and YC) startups in the city: Shopify, Upverter, 500px, Chango, Wattpad, XMG, Uken Games, and PagerDuty are all based here or have offices here, just to name a few.
Don't forget about the MaRS Discovery District and all the awesome startups there! http://www.marsdd.com/
With nearly 3 million in population and an energy in the air not unlike New York City, Toronto should be more of a startup scene than it is. This is the first T.O. startup I've read about for as long as I can remember.
Capital is virtually non-existent compared to Silicon Valley or even New York City. That's the #1 issue faced by startups in Canada.
Or is there some other structural barrier?
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Capital is virtually non-existent compared to Silicon Valley or even New York City. That's the #1 issue faced by startups in Canada.
Does this mean an astute VC could set-up shop in Toronto (or elsewhere in Canada) and make a killing? Or is there some other structural barrier?
I love how they narrowed their focus to barbershops. One of the hardest parts of many startups is finding and staying focused on the right niche.
Barbershops appear to be their main niche, but they do have a similar focus on others. From their page. Resurva for Barbershops Resurva for Room Booking Resurva for Conferences Resurva for Salons Resurva for Spas Resurva for Massage Therapists
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Don't forget about the MaRS Discovery District and all the awesome startups there! http://www.marsdd.com/
Not so fast http://startupnorth.ca/2014/06/07/searching-for-life-on-mars...
We're doing another meet up of the local b2b cloud software folks next month as part of the one and only trade association.
http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com
You can ping me even if you're not in Ontario; I just happen to live in Toronto. We're globe spanning. :) We're doing events in Seattle (next week), Atlanta, Raleigh, Berlin, and Boston in the next few months.
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Capital is virtually non-existent compared to Silicon Valley or even New York City. That's the #1 issue faced by startups in Canada.
Does this mean an astute VC could set-up shop in Toronto (or elsewhere in Canada) and make a killing? Or is there some other structural barrier?
A lot of Canadians move down to the states anyway because developer salaries are like 2-3x higher.