Founders and Funders

I'm really excited to report that civiside was invited to the Founders and Funders Dinner in Toronto. We were invited to the one in Montreal also, but couldn't afford to travel (that's how cash strapped we are : (

Founders and Funders is great idea to give startup founders and investors a way to network in a very informal way that allows for open dialogue without pressure.

Anyhow, this will be a great opportunity to meet others in the Toronto tech community. I expect that we will make some great connections.

How Not to Die!

I really felt that I had to link this article from Paul Graham called "How Not to Die":

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

We haven't arrived at our darkest hour yet, but this article will help us put it all into perspective when that hour comes. I hope that it helps you also.

Newest Happenings

Fri, Jamie and I attended the Toronto Campus Recruiting Forum and had terrific response there as well. We even a met a reservist working for Canadian Revenue Agency who was also an HR person....talk about an easy sell.

Yesterday we attended Discovery 08 and got to meet some interesting people with new technologies and business concepts. Even inadvertently pitched an Angel investor on our concept and got some good feedback.

Our biggest difficulty right now is communicating that our service exists to reservists. The employers that we have spoken with want them, but our limited marketing budget has made it difficult to spread the word effectively. If anyone has ideas on cheap ways to get the word out let us know.

The next few weeks will be filled with us following up with employers and potential investors so that we can get this to critical mass by the end of the summer.