There is a lot of chatter about calendar being the next native iOS application (much like Mailbox and Taskbox for Mail) that is set to be out replaced by a startup. Just looking at my phone you’ll find: Sunrise Calendar Tempo Smart Calendar Atlas Agenda Tempus Calvetica Fantastical Cue I’m hopeful for Atlas because it [...]
Scott Brinker Follow @chiefmartec provides a must read summary of the 5 meta-trends that underly most modern marketing. The great digital migration of marketing (and business). The convergence of paid, earned, and owned media. Customer experience as the core of marketing. Rise of the creative/marketing technologist. Agile marketing management. The post lays forth a strong [...]
Marketing technology, if you believe the infographics and Gartner, that marketing will spend more on technology by 2017. There are an incredible proliferation of new tools available to marketers and product developers. Here is a short list of the tools that I have been evaluating for automating different parts of the marketing process. Totango – [...]
The team at KISSmetrics has provided a B2B Marketing Guide infographic. Some of the facts I found interesting: 85% of B2B marketers invested in event marketing in 2010 28% of this group plan to increase their event marketing investments in 2011 69% of B2B marketers intend to try new digital marketing approaches in 2011 Lots [...]
I’m heading to Vancouver for the Grow Conference. If you’re a startup, an investor or a service provider in Canada you should be at this event. Read my Top 5 Reasons to go to Grow. (Random note: I’m surprised that Peer1 or Q9 or MyHosting or iWeb or RackForce didn’t see this as a potential [...]
Can you pitch your company in six slides? I can’t believe that Fred and Brad raised the first USV fund with only six (6) slides. “We learned to simplify our story and we learned how to create six killer slides. And killer slides are not slides with a dozen bullets each. They are six powerful [...]
Reposted from my StartupNorth post. I was excited to attend MeshU (maybe a little too excited). I love it when events over deliver. MeshU was a fantastic conference. I saw two of the best in-the-trenches startup sessions with Sean Ellis and Dan Martell. They both presented ideas that are changing how I think about product [...]
I learned about the idea of outsourcing play from Alex Manu’s book The Imagination Challenge. I’m guilty of outsourcing play from Formula1 to UFC (don’t ask, but it’s cathartic and I feel a little schadenfreude). Evidence of the continued outsourcing of play is the continued meteoric rise of fantasy sports. “It is estimated that 26 million [...]
Reposted from my StartupNorth post: Is there any questions that the Canadian venture captial industry is in turmoil? There is a change that is happening, it might just not be happeing as fast as it could. Mark McQueen talks about the the creative destruction of the VC industry in Canada. “There’s no robust “new class” of [...]
It’s been more than 4 years since I first blogged about hosting BarCamp in Toronto. And it’s been a crazy 4 years. 1016 jobs posted (81 at http://jobs.davidcrow.ca/ + archive pre-Sept 2009) 25 DemoCamps 3 Founders & Funders 3 BarCamps 3 jobs – Nakama/Ambient Vector; Radiant Core; Microsoft 2 kids 1 heart attack And the [...]