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Jevon MacDonald

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Co-Founder, CEO at Manifold.co. Previously GM Service Cloud SOS and VP at Salesforce, Co-Founder GoInstant, Senior Partner at Dachis Group.

Products are Lines, not Dots

Products are Lines, not Dots

By Jevon MacDonald on January 22, 2015

I see a lot of founders and startups struggling with explaining what they are trying to accomplish. Many are just focused on how they are going to do the next thing. The next release, the next pitch, the next campaign. Releasing a product is not an accomplishment in and of itself. Launching isn’t either. Getting a feedback and […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Iteration, Lean Startup, mark suster, startups

We Should Be Building Empires

We Should Be Building Empires

By Jevon MacDonald on September 17, 2014

We don’t build a lot of empires around here. Empires are big, they grow fast, and they use momentum to determine where to apply resources. Empires don’t respond, they set the new rules. Carnegie. Rockefeller. Gates. Zuckerberg. Lutke. McDerment. Baker. We’ve had empires come and go, but we haven’t built the sort that stick around […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Canada, events, startups

You are supposed to break the rules

You are supposed to break the rules

By Jevon MacDonald on July 23, 2014

Great entrepreneurs truly do not care about the rules. If you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of rules. Some come and go with the times, others never seem to go away: You are supposed to dress a certain way Finance your company this way You pitch deck should look like THIS You, in your industry, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged airbnb, Big Ideas, Bitcoin, break rules, startups

Get them out of the building: Travel support from Volta

Get them out of the building: Travel support from Volta

By Jevon MacDonald on December 20, 2013

When Ben Yoskovitz moved to Halifax to join us at GoInstant he left the growing Montreal community and brought a lot of fresh perspective to what needs to happen in Nova Scotia to grow the startup ecosystem. The #1 thing he noticed was the successful startups were the ones getting out of the building and […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Nova Scotia, San Francisco, StartupNorth, startups

Atlantic House @ Grow next week in Vancouver

Atlantic House @ Grow next week in Vancouver

By Jevon MacDonald on August 2, 2013

The buzz has been awesome about the GROW conference next week. Just a few weeks after Startup Fest in Montreal. The summer season is moving quickly… A Startupnorth we’ve helped organize the Ontario House along with Communitech and the Waterloo community, and now we are announcing that along with Volta we are organizing the Atlantic […]

Posted in Business | Tagged events, StartupNorth, startups, Vancouver

Should you pay to pitch an angel group? What the data says

Should you pay to pitch an angel group? What the data says

By Jevon MacDonald on March 14, 2013

We have seen a pretty amazing wealth of information about financing models and structures come to light in the last 10 years. It wasn’t that long ago that VC and Angel financing were dark arts which few entrepreneurs understood. We have always worked hard to demystify startup financing on StartupNorth and have done a long series of articles which was focused […]

Posted in Business | Tagged angel investors, Canada, Entrepreneurship, StartupNorth, startups

What you need to know about starting a startup in Atlantic Canada

What you need to know about starting a startup in Atlantic Canada

By Jevon MacDonald on March 5, 2013

Building a product and growing a startup is a different experience no matter where you live. In many ways every startup experience is completely unique and totally predictable all at the same time. The goals, struggles, opportunities and outcomes are each different and geography is one other thing that can be thrown in the mix. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Atlantic Canada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, San Francisco, startups

The only model that matters: Founders First

The only model that matters: Founders First

By Jevon MacDonald on February 27, 2013

There are a lot of models that people throw around for how to build a strong startup community. There are a handful of types of players in each community, so there are many permutations of “who gets what” and how resources are moved around. It gets complicated, fast. So there is a model that I […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Canada, Entrepreneurship, Founders, startups, Venture Capital

If not an Angel Network, then what?

If not an Angel Network, then what?

By Jevon MacDonald on February 20, 2013

David posted a pretty in-depth piece on the First Angel Network this week. This followed an awesome discussion on TechVibes about angel groups over the weekend. The structure and funding model for First Angel Network were a pretty big surprise to me when I moved to Halifax 3 years ago. Frankly it is pretty easy for us […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Angel investor, angel investors, Angel Network, AngelList, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, StartupNorth, startups | 1 Response

The companies I should have paid more

The companies I should have paid more

By Jevon MacDonald on January 30, 2013

Building a startup is hard and managing ops is really hard. Devops are hard and expensive. Luckily these days there are some amazing companies making it way easier to build the startup of your dreams. Frankly, I don’t think they are getting paid nearly enough while some are getting paid way too much. What apps […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged GitHub, google, HipChat, iPhone, services, skype, StartupNorth, startups, Trello | 1 Response

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