Posts filed under 'Events'
Co-Founders Monday- May Edition: Monday, May 25th, 2009
by Magda Rocki
Looking for that star partner to join your budding technology project or looking for that key project to contribute to? Make your way down to our offices this upcoming Monday May 25th at 6:30pm and meet and mingle with entrepreneurs, investors, students and coaches–all interested in participating and gaining awareness of new tech projects.
Join us! Register for the event on Meetup.
Attending for the first time? Read the recap of the January or February edition.
5 comments May 20, 2009
Upcoming: Co-Founders Monday on April 20th, 2009!
Make sure to mark in your calendar: Co-Founders Monday at Bolidea on April 20th, 2009 starting at 6:30pm.
Whether you have a great project idea and wish to recruit partners or the desire to join an interesting project, come, meet and mingle with like-minded individuals. Looking forward to seeing you!
Register now at Montreal Newtech !
Add comment April 14, 2009
Recap: March YULHackers
by Magda Rocki
Who had time this past Saturday to leisurely enjoy the lovely beginnings of spring? Certainly not this dedicated group of knowledgeable entrepreneurs, creators and programmers present at the freshly minted YULHackers event.
Highlights of the event:
- An unconference format was adopted: Participants were greeted at the door with a giant, blank post-it board and markers and directed toward filling out alloted time slots with their topics of interest.
- Sebastien presented his programming language Sugar: The engaging presentation focused on the origins of Sugar, its practical applications through a journey into its design and syntax, and concluded with a few slides on its admissibility as a good replacement to JavaScript for front-end web development. Presentation slides can be found here.
- A group discussion was initiated about the future format and branding related efforts for YULhackers: So far, thanks to the magical hands of Alok, we have a website, a simple wiki and a tumblr blog.
- Peter of the Navarra Group presented their micro-finance web app which will be used for an online – lending system.
Thanks again to all the participants for attending, especially Alok and Heri for organizing and Sebastien and Peter for presenting their work. I’m certain that with your continuous enthusiasm, input and participation, the event’s dimensions will quickly grow into one of Montreal Tech community’s “ must attend” events. Keep tab on the next event by checking back here or here .
1 comment March 11, 2009
Unconferencing Free Hackers3
by Magda Rocki
After a brief reformatting pause, we are once again delighted to be hosting the Free Hackers event this upcoming Saturday, March 7th 2009 from 1-7 pm. On the hacking menu: a presentation and hands-on workshop on the programming language Sugar– by Sebastien Pierre founder of datalicious– followed by an open hacking session. The full details and the sign-up for the event can be found here , so join us and let’s revel in the new Free Hackers format!
Add comment March 2, 2009
More than founders at Co-Founders Monday
by Olivier Cabanes
This week, I attended Co-Founders Monday, and I was very pleased to meet a crowd that was composed of passionate individuals with a desire to learn, share, and talk about anything related to tech businesses.
Everyone came to the event with different goals in mind, and it made for a very interesting meeting. I met university students looking for work experience within a dynamic startup environment, developers looking for a project that would light up their interest, entrepreneurs looking for a partner in crime, investors looking for promising ventures, etc. I’m glad to see that this event is helping to create new relationships and new business ideas, as this kind of diversity is something we had hoped for originally .
It is great to see that this gathering emphasizes execution behind great ideas (i.e. finding a partner or a person that has a specific skill set, gather advice, etc.) rather than promoting secrecy. It shows that members of the community realize that ideas are important but that efforts also need to be directed toward the development and execution. Otherwise, amazing ideas will never even have a chance of becoming reality.
I’m sure the Co-Founders Monday meeting format will evolve over time, and I hope the positive things I noted above will keep on being part of the event’s formula.
Thanks to everyone for their involvement and I hope to see you next time!
1 comment February 19, 2009
Co-Founders Monday: Find Projects & Partners
by Martin-Luc Archambault
We will be hosting the next Co-Founders Monday, this upcoming Monday, February 16, at 6:30pm. We hosted this event for the first time last month, and it was fun and very productive. In case you missed it, here’s a wrap-up of the last event.
The goal of Co-Founders Monday is to mix people and create partnerships that transform ideas into reality. The event is open to people who:
1) do not have a specific idea in mind and would love to hear about other cool projects and maybe join one and help it succeed;
2) have an idea and are looking for help to make it happen.
At the last event, a great majority of the participants tended to lean toward presenting their projects, so we are certain that if you are interested in joining a startup, you will be in high demand at the Co-Founders Monday.
So, if you are interested in learning about new projects, or if you would like to share your own projects with others, please register here as spacing is limited.
Add comment February 11, 2009
20 Co-founders gathered at Bolidea to talk about their startup and to possibly find a partner…
by Martin-Luc Archambault
We’ve just hosted our first Co-Founder’s Monday this week, and I have to admit that I was really impressed by the genuine passion and motivation projected by people in the room.
Unfortunately I had to leave after welcoming the attendees, but from what I heard from the event organizer Felipe Coimbra and from Raphael Ettore, an entrepreneur in residence at Bolidea working on ArtFox , I think the event was an overall success. Many thanks to everyone that attended and especially to the organizer, Felipe.
continue reading…
5 comments January 22, 2009
Free Hackers: The January Edition
Participants settling in Bolidea's infamous " nipple lounge"
About 12 hacking aficionados met on Saturday the 10th of January for the second edition of the Free Hacker’s meet up: a monthly gathering for developers, programmers and technology hackers with the goal of facilitating experimentation, discussion and project exploration of new technologies and programming languages. continue reading…
1 comment January 19, 2009
Creating new hybrid events for a better Montreal Startup Community
Challenge Your World at Montreal NewTech
by Olivier Cabanes
Today, entrepreneurs – whether they have a business or technology background – who want to start a business have access to a lot of help and resources, such as events that promote sharing project ideas, interests and skills with peers. However, it seems like most of these gatherings are made for groups with similar backgrounds. As an example, Montreal NewTech mostly attracts business-oriented entrepreneurs or investors, while developers prefer to hang out in events such as Free Hackers. Bolidea decided to participate in the latter and is also willing to do the same for other crowd-specific events as we believe they bring tremendous value for entrepreneurs and their start-ups. It is through events like these that entrepreneurs can get specialized feedback, insight, support, and maybe funding! While we entirely encourage crowd-specific events, we think that there aren’t enough “hybrid” events – events that create synergies between different crowds.
Participants at the first edition of Free Hackers
Of course some “hybrid” events do exist, such as Co-Founders Monday, which we will be hosting for the first time next week, but for these types of events, it seems to be quite difficult to get the different crowds to show up with an equal amount of interest. Often, there will be more people from one crowd and the other crowd will end up feeling overwhelmed and out of place. That is the problem Bolidea would like to tackle in order to help our startup community thrive even more. We want to be able to successfully unite business-focused personalities with developers and investors in a way that will spark new ideas and relationships which we can then hopefully help grow into independent, successful companies.
We don’t have the winning solution yet, but we’re working on it. One thing we are doing is getting feedback from individuals that attended our events and also gathering suggestions from people in the startup scene for eventual events. We want to identify why crowds don’t necessarily want to mix and what would make them want to. Everyone involved in the tech community is welcome to let us know what they think the winning “hybrid” event would be; if you’re a business brain, a tech guru, a startup fan, a money man, what you’ve got to say is important to us. What do you think is the key to making a “hybrid” event successful – what type of “hybrid” event would YOU want to attend?
And of course, if you share our vision and you want to organize an event, give us a shout – maybe we can help!
2 comments January 15, 2009
FreeHackers Montreal at Bolidea
by Magda Rocki
Preparations for the event:
A few hours before the first FreeHackers meet was to be held in the offices of Bolidea, the team itself was efficiently scrabbling to provide a welcoming space fitting for big and small hackers alike. So late last night, while other worker bees were nectaring their stressful workweeks away with alcoholic pollen, the Bolidea team was fervently at work, prettifying our offices, and finally installing our company’s name plate.
As I arrived sleepy-eyed at the office on Saturday under the noon sun, I was greeted by the infectious grins of the newly arrived participants of the inaugural edition of the Free Hackers meeting. continue reading…
2 comments December 17, 2008
