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Glimpses of McGill In Spring – Qasim Virjee

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Skip to content →. Canada’s Startup Ecosystem. Kenya’s Startup Network. Glimpses of McGill In Spring. April 17, 2015. I’m always pleasantly surprised with how many memories come back to the front of my mind when I tour places I’ve spent a lot of time at in the past. You can now digitally hail an autorickshaw in India. Canada’s Startup Network.

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Thoughts – Qasim Virjee

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Skip to content →. Canada’s Startup Ecosystem. Kenya’s Startup Network. January 28, 2016. Back before everyone had a ‘smart’ phone in their pocket the context of conversations was often set by how you’d make a call. Walking down the street you’d be compelled to call someone and chat because you were inspired by the moment – from visual cues or simply because your juices were flowing from the walk. In fact, not. You can now digitally hail an autorickshaw in India. April 14, 2015. Via DELHI: YOUR UBERAUTO ...

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Canada’s Funding Roadshow Recap – Qasim Virjee

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Skip to content →. Canada’s Startup Ecosystem. Kenya’s Startup Network. Canada’s Funding Roadshow Recap. July 7, 2015. This post originally appeared on the SoftLayer Blog. Helps accelerate the online funding search for entrepreneurs in Canada. Once a year they take their mission offline and organize the country’s only Funding Roadshow. I recently sat down with Lana Tayara from the Funding Roadshow. So, tell us about the purpose behind organizing the Funding Roadshow. The goals of the 2015 Funding Roadsho...

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Observations – Qasim Virjee

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Skip to content →. Canada’s Startup Ecosystem. Kenya’s Startup Network. September 1, 2016. Since 1994, at least once daily I have made myself an espresso drink. I have owned and operated a variety of machinery used for this purpose and tested all sorts of beans and roasts along the way. My favourite is the cappuccino. 8230;Yesterday however I was reminded of what this experience should be. 8211; in Siena Sheila and I stopped at an espresso bar for literally just enough time to sip a cappuccino and must h...

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Redefining the Startup Accelerator Business Model: An Interview with HIGHLINE’S Marcus Daniels – Qasim Virjee

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Skip to content →. Canada’s Startup Ecosystem. Kenya’s Startup Network. Redefining the Startup Accelerator Business Model: An Interview with HIGHLINE’S Marcus Daniels. March 23, 2015. For this interview I sat down with Marcus Daniels, the co-founder and CEO of HIGHLINE. A venture-backed accelerator based in Vancouver and Toronto. This was originally published on the SoftLayer blog. The bad is that there are now thousands of accelerators/incubators globally running generic programs that don’t help f...

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Interviews – Qasim Virjee

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Skip to content →. Canada’s Startup Ecosystem. Kenya’s Startup Network. Vuukle: Helping Publishers Manage Comments and Match Readers with Content. January 16, 2016. Vuukle: Helping Publishers Manage Comments and Match Readers with Content. Originally posted on the SoftLayer Blog. I recently had a conversation with Ravi Mittal, the founder of a company called Vuukle. Vuukle is based in New Delhi and has just graduated from Catalyst. Which I run in Canada as part of the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program.

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Qasim Virjee – Page 2

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Skip to content →. Canada’s Startup Ecosystem. Kenya’s Startup Network. As Angel Investors Pull Back, Valuations Take a Hit – WSJ. January 27, 2016. As Angel Investors Pull Back, Valuations Take a Hit – WSJ. The number of active angel investors climbed to 316,500 in 2014, the most recent year for which data are available, from 259,500 in 2009, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, while the amount they invested rose to $24.1 billion from $17.6 billion. We’...

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Spring comes and this site gets reinvented once again! – Qasim Virjee

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Skip to content →. Canada’s Startup Ecosystem. Kenya’s Startup Network. Spring comes and this site gets reinvented once again! April 10, 2015. Its funny to think that it was only in November. I’ll still be using Koken to publish galleries of my photography and have moved them over to photography.qasim. 8211; watch this space for random thoughts, observations, interviews and more here! Redefining the Startup Accelerator Business Model: An Interview with HIGHLINE’S Marcus Daniels.

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Think Global: How Canadian identities and local networks can provide pathways to international audiences. – Qasim Virjee

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Skip to content →. Canada’s Startup Ecosystem. Kenya’s Startup Network. Think Global: How Canadian identities and local networks can provide pathways to international audiences. June 30, 2015. This is the supporting deck to a talk I’ve given across Canada this year during sessions of the Fundica Funding Roadshow. The talk related opportunities for businesses based in Canada to use our local cultural assets as means of research into global markets and access points to those markets.

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About Me – Qasim Virjee

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Skip to content →. Canada’s Startup Ecosystem. Kenya’s Startup Network. Having lived in a myriad of global cities across North America and East Africa, my perspective on the complexity of modern identity emerged at an early age through experiences analysing my lineage and its cultural evolution (which has moved from Gujurat, India to Kenya to Canada where I was born.). One outcome of studying the evolution of digital music alongside Comparative Religions at McGill University. Both independently and throu...