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🇨🇦 If you’re in Toronto building software tools and/or open source products, I’d love to provide some assistance if I can (e.g. advice, be a sounding board, connections, whatever). No agenda besides a desire to see more things happen here.

Your North Star Metric must not be a financial metric. Those are lagging, multi-input, and the output of right-strategy and right-execution by the whole company. NSM is an immediate measure of customer value. More on the right KPIs: longform.asmartbear.com/product-metric…

Are you angry about the proposed changes to Canada's tax laws? It looks like someone is finally doing something about it! The crowdfunding site below can hopefully make a difference. saveourceos.com

WATCH: @Shopify’s Tobi Lütke (@tobi) fireside chat and AMA with Satish Kanwar (@skanwar) at last night's #BKtownhall. #CDNtech betakit.com/watch-shopifys…

Get the latest in Canadian tech community news, straight from Startupnorth: open.spotify.com/episode/3Fd8Nk…

Tune in for a throwback to the origins of Startupnorth.

Interesting — looks like an opportunity for some enterprising, entrepreneurial Venture Debt firms. techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/pri…

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“VENTURE CAPITAL DOESN’T SCALE…UNTIL IT DOES” by @chamath medium.com/social-capital…

“Diligence at Social Capital, Epilogue: Introducing the 8-ball and “GAAP for Startups”” by @jonathanhsu medium.com/swlh/diligence…

“VENTURE CAPITAL DOESN’T SCALE…UNTIL IT DOES” by @chamath medium.com/social-capital…

Are you a founder based in Atlantic Canada? Take a few minutes to fill out this survey: surveymonkey.com/r/J75723T

Products are lines, not dots: startupnorth.ca/2015/01/21/pro… @startupnorth #productmanagement

Bigger, riskier bets is what the Canadian startup ecosystem needs according to Fidelity Investments’ Mark Schmehl bit.ly/2gFeVkq

@sunil_extreme but can’t government just pick all the winners?

#CVCA2016 afterparty at Home of the Brave (589 King St W) sponsored by @SorryVC - facebook.com/events/1022310…