Next TecSocial
Date: Thursday September 9, 2010
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Membertou Trade & Convention Centre,
50 Maillard Street, Sydney, NS (map)
Speaker: Jevon MacDonald, Innovacorp Entrepreneur in Residence
Topic: "How startups will save Canada"
Welcome Back to a new season of TecSocial!
We'll start things off this year with Innovacorp's Entrepreneur in Residence, Jevon MacDonald.
Jevon will provide a short presentation: "How startups will save Canada".
He has spent the last decade building high technology businesses. Most recently, he was senior partner at Dachis Group, an Austin, Texas-based start-up providing Social Business Design services and technology. He developed strategic alliances with companies such as IBM and Jive Software and helped the company grow from four employees to more than 100. Jevon joined the Dachis Group through the acquisition of his previous start-up, Firestoker.com.
Jevon is also the co-founder of, and a regular writer for, Startupnorth.ca, the leading voice of the start-up community in Canada. Startupnorth.ca hosts regular events such a StartupEmpire, Canada's largest start-up conference, and Founders and Funders, one of the premier start-up financing events in Canada. He is also the co-founder of StartupIndex.ca, a database of Canadian start-ups and funders.
Born and raised on Prince Edward Island, Jevon began his career there, co-founding Silverorange.com, a prominent web development firm. Over the years, he has been active in multiple start-ups at various stages of growth and is an active angel investor, providing capital for start-up companies.
As Entrepreneur in Residence with Innovacorp, Jevon will provide business development support and advice to Innovacorp's high potential clients and help evaluate emerging business ventures. Through this work, he will identify his next business opportunity, whether he builds it himself or joins an existing start-up.
