StartupIndex: It’s ALIVE!

April 29th, 2008  |  Published in StartupIndex

StartupIndex was launched tonight at StartupCampToronto. I’m really excited to see where this goes. We have lots of plans for the future, lots and lots of features and information. I’ll keep this blog updated when major updates are made. For now, check out StartupIndex and read Jevon’s post about StartupIndex on StartupNorth. Only a few hours after the launch, and we’re already starting to see some input from the community!

Let us know if you see any problems, or have any brilliant ideas for where the site should go.

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by clong | Read | 4 Comments

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by clong | Read | No Comments

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by clong | Read | 2 Comments

Yesterday, Alex, who handles marketing at Well.ca, asked for a list of top 50 rural customers in Canada. “Easy!” was my reply, then I thought about it. How to do it? Maybe if I get a list from Canadapost with all the postal codes and their population density I can use that. Maybe I can [...]

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by clong | Read | 2 Comments

I was relaxing today and watching a new Canadian show The Border. At one point they were investigating some college students of some form of terrorism/protesting/revealing federal secrets/etc. To help this investigation they were browsing these students online profiles, and guess what the screen shot of the computer showed: Facetropia. Look a bit familiar?

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