Editor's Pick "Something very interesting is happening here," Google's top Canadian employee, Steve Woods, told me. "This area has a very high proportion of startups to population. Google loves startups … and we love to hire entrepreneurial people."
Best known, perhaps, for being the headquarters of BlackBerry, Waterloo is a small suburb of Toronto with a population of 98,000 in which 500 startups were born in 2012.
Editor's Pick Venture capital's gut-call days are over.
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
The 7 signs of failure for internet startups — Bjoern Lasse Herrmann, who leads the Startup Genome project, offers …
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This story originally appeared on his blog.)
In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the …
Guest Post
Bjoern Lasse Herrmann is a co-founder of Blackbox, which runs a startup accelerator program and Startup Genome, a research and development project for uncovering the mechanics of startups.
Two months ago, my team at Blackbox set out on a mission …
