In September, the Montreal NewTech Meetup Group turns two years old. We’ve grown to over 400 members on Meetup.com, 600 on LinkedIn, 180 on Facebook, and 1300 on Twitter plus the people that occasionally crash the event.
On a personal level, it’s also been two years since I (Felipe) moved to Montreal. So, I thought about making a little video project to show different neighborhoods of Montreal. This project has evolved a bit to a Tour with a startup or somebody involved in the community.
I was keeping this somewhat under the radar because I wasn’t sure if I was actually going to do it. Well, I’ve done four so far (Guy-Concordia, Westmount, boul. St-Laurent, Mile End) and I’m discovering all kinds of new cool places.
The video is a mix of a quick interview/introduction with the startup/entrepreneur about: what they do, what they’re working on, events they’re involved and whatever else they want to share. Plus a walking tour around the neighborhood: interesting places, a bit about the history, their favorite places to go/eat, etc.
So, I still have a few places I’d like to show. I’m looking for a startup/somebody involved in the tech community or working on cool projects who knows one of the following areas (or if I’m missing any, let me know)
Old Montreal
Park Jean Drapeau
Chinatown
Atwater Market area
Jean Talon Market
Little Italy
St-Denis / Mont-Royal Ave
Downtown
Place des Arts
etc??
I’d like to finish recording these videos by Sept 8. Then I’ll post one every week until it’s over. Email me at coimbfs[at]gmail.com (Merci!)
As for the September events, make sure you sign up below:
We had another great Usability Fix last night. Here are the Montreal Startups getting feedback:
ServiceVille
Cakemail
Lifeceyecle
DokDokInc
Couch Gamers
OnePlan.Me
MyVirtualLocker
Here’s a quick video about the event, so you can join us next month.
If you want to have your product tested, email alexandra[at]bolidea.com. We will post information about the next event soon. It will probably be on Sept 14.
Here are the presentations from the last Montreal NewTech Meetup.
Couch Gamers is a highly flexible, feature-rich content management system that allows individuals, organizations and companies to easily create and manage their very own video gaming website. Follow @queenbmedia
Globetrooper is a social travel website where people build adventures together and travel globe. Follow @globetrooper.
MakeYourGirlfriendHappy.com helps boyfriends go from good to great: get reminders before her birthday, your anniversary and valentine’s and every week, get tips, ideas and deals to make her happy! Follow @makeyourgfhappy.
Skeedy is a free website that looks like a news aggregator but feeds are defined by users themselves. Follow @didierrano.
Couch Gamers is a highly flexible, feature-rich content management system that allows individuals, organizations and companies to easily create and manage their very own video gaming website. Follow @queenbmedia
Globetrooper is a social travel website where people build adventures together and travel globe. Follow @globetrooper.
MakeYourGirlfriendHappy.com helps boyfriends go from good to great: get reminders before her birthday, your anniversary and valentine’s and every week, get tips, ideas and deals to make her happy! Follow @makeyourgfhappy.
Skeedy is a free website that looks like a news aggregator but feeds are defined by users themselves. Follow @didierrano.
Hello Montreal Startups! I have set up the event page for the next NewTech Demo. It will be on August 3rd (First Tuesday) at McKibbins Irish Pub (Bishop St)
Would you like to present?
Simply send us an email to demo@mtlnewtech.com by July 25.
We changed the format of the second Usability Fix Meetup and this one was much more organized and productive than the first one. Thanks to Magali + Alexandra (Bolidea) and Nicolas Gosselin (UX Designer) for getting the event flowing so well.
I saw a lot of the startups with pages after pages of user feedback and overheard a lot of great comments from the testers.
So, keep an eye on the following startups, as they’ll be making some changes and improving their products in the next few week:
CloudHoist allows you to provision servers across multiple clouds (EC2, Rackspace, Terremark, etc), configure them with various services (eg MySQL, Tomcat, Hudson), and deploy your applications.
Follow @cloudhoist
We support young entrepreneurs and new businesses through our financial assistance programs: the Local Investment Fund, SOLIDE, the Société d'Investissement Jeunesse, FÉS, and Young Promoters.
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