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June 17, 2019
STARTUP TALK EPISODE 20 KLIPPERS
GET THE PODCAST Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | More Direct from the Six, world renowned, Canada’s largest city, with Canada’s biggest thinkers, visionaries, and hustlers. This is Startup Talk podcast episode 20 Klippers, featuring the founders, funders, innovators, and community leaders who have led Canada’s startup ecosystem right here in Toronto. You’ll hear the challenges, the failures, the […]
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June 11, 2019
STARTUP NEWS AND EVENTS JUNE 11 2019 with the Startup Coach
This week on Startup Talk Toronto’s Startup Podcast I talk to Shawn Finder CEO & Founder of Autoklose, about building his his business getting more leads, growth hacks to close deals, get meetings, avoid the spam box and how he got $46k in sales on launch. May’s Friday Founders was a great success. Lots of […]
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June 11, 2019
TELUS Surprised Entrepreneurs with a chance to Pitch for $100k to Arlene Dickinson
What happens when you surprise a group of entrepreneurs with a chance to pitch to Arlene Dickinson for one minute in an elevator for a chance at $100,000? The Startup Coach was on hand when Workhaus hosted the filming of the TELUS Pitch 2019 promotional video. With special invites to Workhaus and TorontoStarts members to […]
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June 10, 2019
STARTUP TALK EPISODE 19 AUTOKLOSE
GET THE PODCAST Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | More Direct from the Six, world renowned, Canada’s largest city, with Canada’s biggest thinkers, visionaries, and hustlers. This is Startup Talk episode 19 Autoklose, featuring the founders, funders, innovators, and community leaders who have led Canada’s startup ecosystem right here in Toronto. You’ll hear the challenges, the failures, the successes. […]
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June 4, 2019
Startup News & Events June 4, 2019
Collision 2019 has come and gone leaving in its wake the many connections it made while in disrupting Toronto. TorontoStarts leadership team was there and determined not to miss anything. Check out Collision 2019 with The Startup Coach highlights. This week on the Startup Talk Podcast I talk with Ryan and Alex, the co-founders of Equivesto, […]
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June 4, 2019
Collision 2019 with The Startup Coach
Collision 2019 was an incredible event where over 25000 innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs descended on Toronto. The The Startup Coach and the TorontoStarts Leadership team were there taking it all in. While Andrea and Meagan were following the different content tracks and there was something for everyone. The Startup Coach spent most of the conference […]
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June 3, 2019
Startup Talk Episode 18 Equivesto
GET THE PODCAST Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | More Direct from The Six, world-renowned, Canada’s largest city with Canada’s biggest thinkers, visionaries, and hustlers, this is Startup Talk episode 18 with Equivesto. The Startup Talk podcast features the founders, funders, innovators, and community leaders who have led Canada’s startup ecosystem right here in Toronto. You’ll hear the challenges, […]
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May 27, 2019
STARTUP TALK EPISODE 17 What is Intellectual Property?
GET THE PODCAST Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | More Direct from The Six. World renowned. Canada’s largest city. With Canada’s biggest thinkers, visionaries, and hustlers, this is Startup Talk podcast episode 17 featuring the founders, funders, innovators, and community leaders who have led Canada’s startup ecosystem right here in Toronto. You’ll hear the challenges, the failures, the successes. […]
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May 20, 2019
STARTUP TALK EPISODE 16 BooknBrunch
GET THE PODCAST Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | More Direct from the six, world renowned, Canada’s largest city, with Canada’s biggest thinkers, visionaries, and hustlers. This is start up talk, featuring the founders, funders, innovators and community leaders who’ve led Canada’s start up ecosystem right here in Toronto. You’ll hear the challenges, failures, the successes. Toronto’s start up […]
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May 15, 2019
Startup News & Events May 15
The Startup Coach – Tuesday Wednesday Update It’s Wednesday May 15 2019, and it’s already been an awesome week, this is your Startup Coach update. This week on Startup Talk I talk to Erika J Murray founder of Ji App about starting a dating app in Toronto, building traction, and exiting. She also mentions how […]
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May 13, 2019
STARTUP TALK EPISODE 15 Ji App with Erika J Murray
GET THE PODCAST Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | More Direct from The Six, world-renowned, Canada’s largest city with Canada’s biggest thinkers, visionaries, and hustlers. This is Startup Talk episode 15, featuring the founders, funders, innovators, and community leaders who’ve led Canada’s startup ecosystem right here in Toronto. You’ll hear the challenges, the failures, the successes. Toronto’s startup podcast […]
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May 7, 2019
Startup News & Events May 7
The Startup Coach – Tuesday Update It’s Tuesday May 7 2019, and that means another Startup Coach update. This week on Startup Talk I talk to Emily O’Brien founder of Cons & Kernels about losing everything and starting a company from prison. What is NRC IRAP Funding is the topic of this week’s Ask The […]
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May 6, 2019
STARTUP TALK EPISODE 14 CONS AND KERNELS
GET THE PODCAST Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | More In Startup Talk episode 14 I speak with Emily O’Brien founder of Cons and Kernels about growing up entrepreneurial. Emily gives us 3 great Instagram tips and talks about how losing everything turned her life around. We also discuss how she got a Dragon as an Advisor, the Dragons […]
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May 2, 2019
What Do You Need to Do to Start a Business in Ontario?
Every corporation in Canada is required to maintain an official record of its activities including records of any annual meetings conducted by the directors and shareholders of the company as well as any change within the corporation
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April 30, 2019
Startup News & Events April 30
The Startup Coach – Tuesday Update Hey it’s the Startup Coach here with another Tuesday Update This week on the Startup Talk Podcast I talk to Will Greeblatt of OutLoud Speakers School about going to acting school, traveling and teaching in Spain and China, and how an injury turned into starting OutLoud Speakers School and […]
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April 29, 2019
STARTUP TALK EPISODE 13 OUTLOUD SPEAKERS SCHOOL
GET THE PODCAST Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS | More In Startup Talk episode 13 I speak with Will GreenBlatt co-founder of OutLoud Speakers School on going to acting school, traveling and teaching in Spain and China, and how an injury turned into starting OutLoud Speakers School and training executives and entrepreneurs on pitching, selling, and public speaking. Will teaches Techstars, DMZ, and TorontoStarts Startup […]
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March 13, 2019
Startup News and Events – March 13, 2019
Startup Drinks Open Pitch Open Bar Grab a drink and meet Toronto’s Startup Community, talk funding with BDC, TokenFunder, Equivesto and more! Practice your pitch during open pitcb and get great feedback from the community including OutLoud Speakers School, Potato Chip Communications, Clutch PR, and The Startup Coach connect with exciting early stage startups, mentors, […]
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March 11, 2019
Importance of Maintaining Corporate Records
Every corporation in Canada is required to maintain an official record of its activities including records of any annual meetings conducted by the directors and shareholders of the company as well as any change within the corporation
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March 5, 2019
Welcome to the TorontoStarts News March 5 2019
FFCON19, COLLISION, AND THE FUNDICA ROADSHOW HOME COACHING CONTACT FFCON19 The National Crowdfunding and Fintech Association of Canada’s 5th Annual Fintech and Funding Conference and Expo (#FFCON19) is back in Toronto this April 3-4, 2019. #FFCON19 remains one of the most engaging platforms in Canada for high growth and emerging startups and professionals in […]
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October 11, 2018
STARTUP CRASH COURSE BUILDING YOUR BRAND with TREVOR SHORTE
[ulp id=’LuDHieDB7evEmakd’] BUILDING YOUR BRAND Managing director of SongBird Marketing Communications. Trevor Shorte up here to talk about building your brand, welcome Trevor. Trevor: Hello, hello, hello, every time I hold one of these things, I wanna break one of these beat bot up whatever sorry that’s me. Apparently, I’m the example that Craig decided that he […]
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