Montréal NEWTECH

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I have created a Montreal NewTech Lending Team page, so if you have lended money to other entrepreneurs through Kiva, please join our community there. If you haven’t, I encourage you to check it out. The site is full of hard working entrepreneurs from developing countries, you can lend as little as $25 and make a huge difference in somebody’s life and their community.

The first Montreal NewTech Meetup will be held at Station-C (5369 Boulevard Saint-Laurent #430) on October 7th. If you’re planning on attending it, please RSVP at http://newtech.meetup.com/127/calendar/8674645/

We’re also looking for four startups who would like to demo their latest product and get feedback from the Montreal Tech Community. If you’re interested, please email me at demo@mtlnewtech.com.

Each demo will last five minutes, followed by a five minutes Q&A. At the end of the demos, we’ll have about one hour to ask additional questions and network.

We hope to see you all there!

Yesterday we had our first Montreal NewTech meetup at Brutopia. It wasn’t an official meetup and we had no demos, but it was a great time with some Montreal tech enthusiasts. We had about 10 people talking about technology and projects they’re working on.

On a personal level, it was great for me to meet some people on my second day in Montreal. So, if you couldn’t make it yesterday, there’s still lot of opportunities to get involved in the Montreal Tech community!

There are a lot of different events happening weekly. I’ll post them here under the “More Events in Montreal” section. Some other sources for what’s happening in Montreal are: Montreal Tech Watch and TechVibes.

Here are a few events happening next week (if you know of others, please share them):

• BitNorth Conference - Sept 5-7
• Montreal Video 2.0 - Sept 8
• Montreal Entrepreneur Breakfast - Sept 9

And there’s always something else going on… Every single week, so come join the Montreal Tech community. Share what you’re working on, see what others are doing, get involved!

We’re now looking for people who would like to demo their startup/project in our October NewTech meetup. So, if you’re looking to get feedback, alpha/beta users, partners, investment… That’s a great opportunity for us all to help each others out. Send me an email at: demo@mtlnewtech.com

You show your web app for 5 minutes, followed by 5 minutes Q&A.