Posts filed under 'Startup Resources'
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
Planning your startup’s offsite? Tips on making it successful.
by Magda Rocki
A startup’ s offsite is a very helpful means to getting the team focused on defining a strategy, roadmapping, planning a product launch or creating a revolutionary way of doing things. Far from the daily distractions of the office (lengthy meetings, stressful deadlines, glaring computer screens), the offsite environment is also a great formula for open conversations about subject items you don’t have time to broach in your regular schedule.
Done well, an offsite not only puts your startup’s great minds together to address a business issue but it also builds better teams that work more effectively together and get more things done. However, an offsite planned poorly will be viewed as a waste of time and be dubbed as a dismal failure.
How can you ensure your startup’s offsite is successful at building teams and getting things done at the same time?
The key: advance preparation. Consider following this efficient 3-step planning sequence. Step one outlined below with step two and three explained in a subsequent post.
1 comment March 18, 2009
3 Steps to Getting a Great Logo for your Startup
by Magali Janvier
The logo is often the main visual element of the business, and it’s the first item people spot when they land on your website. For these reasons, your company’s logo is one of the fundamentals you can’t disregard when building a startup.
The logo itself can fall into a much greater scheme of brand and marketing, but often in a startup, there’s no time to think of the entire business marketing plan before having your logo designed. But what is the right time to spend on this? When does it become too much? How can you make sure you do the right steps and end up with a logo you find great? These are some of the questions I will cover in this post. continue reading…
3 comments February 18, 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
Should you work for a startup?
by Magda Rocki
One of Bolidea’s main objectives is to attentively find and recruit capable people interested in working for the technology startups that we build. In order to do so successfully, we obviously need to be aware of the factors that make it interesting for someone to work in a startup environment.
So, we carried out a semi-scientific analysis by drawing on our communal knowledge of the corporate environment, our personal experiences, as well as feedback from other startup employees. That being done, we can now present a few of the many reasons why we believe you should consider working at a startup. continue reading…
2 comments January 12, 2009
