Awesome Turnout!

If you didn’t get a chance to swing by @chainsawsalon last night for the first KW Start-ups Recruitment and Information Session – you missed out! A big thanks to Ernst & Young and Communitech for sponsoring the event and supplying all the beer and all-you-can eat poutine buffet.  Another Big thanks goes out to Redwoods Media for [...]

The dorm room approach to running a startup

I had the privilege and pleasure of speaking to the new students at UW Velocity recently. I talked about “failing fast and often” as well as how we run things here at tinyHippos.  I focused on XP programming, TDD, and the importance of failing fast. After leaving this great group of students, I got to [...]

Announcing The Ripple Emulator beta launch – 20 days to go

Wondering what the tinyHippos have been up to for the past few months??  Well – if you haven’t had the pleasure of attending a local event in the Kitchener/Waterloo region where you would have been captivated by our demo…  then you are in for a treat!  The boys are finally ready to come out of [...]

Waterloo Region Web Design & Technology meetup: a great event!

Last night we had the pleasure and privilege of presenting at the Waterloo Region Web Design & Technology meetup last night right here in Waterloo, ON at the Barley Works. We had a great time showing off our soon-to-be-released product and got and overwhelmingly positive response. These are some of the tweets about our presentation [...]

Should you patent your idea?

That is the question that has been taunting us over the past week or so. If you’re here hoping for an answer to that question, I’m afraid you’ve come the wrong place. I’ve been struggling with whether patenting in the software world is even beneficial. There have been many articles and posts (here’s one) out there [...]

DemoCamp Guelph – recap

Last night we had the great pleasure of presenting at DemoCamp Guelph 12 along with some other really interesting presentations. MonsterFarming.com did a great job of summarizing the presentations so I encourage to read his post :-) This was our first DemoCamp Guelph and the turn out was remarkable. The venue was great, but a little small [...]

A small OMG moment

I’ve read many entrepreneur, VC, and Angel blogs over the past few years. At some point each and every one of the authors of those blogs mention a particular moment in time when they realized that a product, company, person, etc. was just going to make it. Maybe “make it” is a strong statement, but [...]

Our first official week – a brief retrospective

Saying that this is our first week would be a little bit of a white lie. We’ve actually been at it for over 2 months now. However, last week was our first week working on our product full time ok, more like Brent working on it full time and me having about 20 meetings with [...]

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