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US incorporation for Canadian startups

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. [...]

Sometimes, being in Canada just plain sucks.

Ok.  This definitely goes in the rant category.  I got myself a shiny new iPhone 3G.  I decided to play by the rules (this time): I didn’t unlock it, I didn’t jailbreak it.  Problem is, most of the apps I want are not available here.  What gives? Just to name a few: Pandora, Loopt, AOL [...]