Carl Mercier's blog

Many people fail to understand why Silicon Valley is such a great ecosystem to build startups. I had a great experience last night that embodies everything the Valley is all about. It goes like this… A fellow Montrealer entrepreneur who recently moved to The City invited me over for Schartz’s Smoked Meat. He somehow managed [...]

In March 2009, I gave a talk entitled How I founded, bootstrapped, grew and sold my web startups at Mesh U in Toronto, Canada. Ever since, people have been fascinated by how I incorporated Karabunga (Defensio‘s parent company) in Delaware despite living in Canada, and yet maintained the simplicity and benefits of running a Canadian company. [...]