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I'm gonna be honest, Canada startups are weird While, true, we have good business models like Shopify, Canada has its fair share of places with, let me put it
by raverbashing 4y ago
I'm gonna be honest, Canada startups are weird
While, true, we have good business models like Shopify, Canada has its fair share of places with, let me put it like this, "so what?" business models. Things that would look weird even if they were SV startups
- jacobr1 4y agoCan you give some examples?
- raverbashing 4y agoI was going to, but I couldn't find their names One was a "make a cartoon" one, which I think got some investment but in the end closed The other one was "pay your restaurant bill" app. Because apparently calling the waiter is too hard and I'm sure a low margin business will be very happy to have another intermediary with pretty much no value added.
- version_five 4y agoWhat I've seen a lot of is "startups" that exist primarily to fulfill the role of "startup" in some kind of grant program that pays businesses to partner with startups. And if you are trying to start a tech company in canada, you end up bombarded with information about how to do this, it's all anyone really wants to talk about. Imo the while ecosystem is corrupted by government incentives or in some industries outright pretent and basically just bought with government money