What about startups in Canada?

Posted by bendauphinee on Thursday June 03, 2010 @01:16PM
from the self-post dept.

I see a lot of content and advice for startups in the USA. What I have a problem with is applying some of it to Canada. Does anyone have some good info or articles on various startup topics for Canadians? Some of the topics that I can't seem to find good clear info on are things like funding oppertunities, starting a corp, legal info, and just really anything that would differ between the USA and Canada. Does anyone have good info they can point me and my fellow Canadians to?

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Re:What about startups in Canada? by adrianscott on Thursday June 03, 2010 @01:47PM (#1401952)

I'd love to support startups in Canada, the land of my birth.

But now whenever I go to Ottawa to visit an ailing family member, they look at the contents of my hard drives and memory cards at Customs.

So that kind of governmental philosophy is maybe part of why there isn't more going on and more info available online.

But you definitely don't need to be in the U.S. to do a tech startup. Go for it!

Just think about locating to a less expensive country that feels less need to pry into your memory ;).

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Re:What about startups in Canada? by cperciva on Thursday June 03, 2010 @02:07PM (#1401998)

I don't know why Canada Customs is picking on you; but lots of countries, including the US, perform searches of digital media.

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Re:What about startups in Canada? by Watts on Thursday June 03, 2010 @01:42PM (#1401940)

This might be a good place to start: http://rethink.unspace.ca/2010/5/14/raising-capital

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Re:What about startups in Canada? by hunterjrj on Thursday June 03, 2010 @01:44PM (#1401944)

www.startupnorth.ca

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