#modreal

Montreal NewTech demo #62 is scheduled tuesday 14th at Café République. RSVP on twtvite

Startup Failure

For this first edition of 2014, the first 30mn will be an open mic session for anyone who want to talk about startup failures. 

The idea is to stop being afraid of failures and start embracing it. 

We invite technology entrepreneurs, developers, investors, designers to tell about their own past failure, study it so that everyone can prepare for success. Did you have a system that crashed the day of the launch? Or maybe you thought your idea would be the next Facebook but only got 100 users? Did you have a deal that went through? We all have founded, worked or invested in startups that failed. This is the time to tell the audience what didn't worked, what were the wrong hires, and when you decided to let things go.

So come have a beer with us, tell your story, so we can learn from mistakes and build something bigger next time.

Happy Startup Year 2014! 

The lineup

Syme (@symeapp) : Share privately with groups

Modreal (@modrealfashion) : Your personal online lookbook. 

List Runner (@listrunnerapp) : List Runner is used by doctors to make rounding and handovers more efficient.

Bylls : Bills payment services with Bitcoin

Event format

6pm: Doors open. 

6:30pm : StartupFail. Open mic for those who want to share tales of failures, so that we can embrace failure and learn from it. 

7:00pm: Presentations. Each presenter will have 5 for the demo + 5 for Q&A. At the end of the presentations, anybody can make a 30sec announcement to the group: jobs, upcoming projects, other community events

7:45pm : stay for networking ! We expect a lot of the tech crowd at this first 2014

Sponsored by SDEVM

The SDEVM, a Centre local de développement (CLD), offers and coordinates front-line accompaniment and networking, as well as technical and financial services.

For more information, and to discover other community initiatives and past events, check outmtlnewtech.com

Modreal Fashion was incubated during Summer 2013 by a Toronto based Incubator & Business Accelerator: INcubes. We had the pleasure of meeting some exciting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists that helped us redefine our vision and approach to market.

We had to move over Toronto for 3 months, and let us say that our product has been completely redesigned to be appropriate to today’s reality. In fact, when we first stepped into INcubes offices, we were building a web responsive app. Today, we have pivoted into an iOS & Android mobile application with a web app that will be accessible for fashion brands, designers and retailers.

Following to INcubes graduation, we moved back in Montreal & Visited our good friends Ovidiu and Hamed from Outpost.travel, that recently raised a Seed round for their startup. While we visited them in their old port offices, paid by one of their investor, I had the pleasure of meeting with him. I pitched the idea behind Modreal and showed him what we been working on. He simply loved it & wanted to help us in anyway possible.

Today we are working from the best offices that you could wish for as a startup. The old port is a great area to take some inspirational walks, however very expensive to eat & drink.

We are in the process of brining some new talent to the team. We been interviewing for the past weeks, and had over 40 applicants. We are looking for a talented iOS designer & developer that could add his skills to the table & make Modreal Fashion, a successful Canadian startup.

We also have applied to be part of the next Founder Fuel Cohort that will take place from February to May 2014. We have our fingers crossed and hope that we could be part of this big journey. Even though we been part of another accelerator, we believe that we will gain a lot from this opportunity.

The user-facing product idea has improved a lot as well. We now have a clear understanding of what our users would be in love with, and what our customers will be willing to retrieve from our customer-facing product. We had the opportunity to validate it with a focus group during the Startup Festival 2013, and we had some outstanding feedback from the community. We are looking forward releasing a beta by February 2014. Sign up on http://modreal.com/ to be the first notified about the release.

Looking to apply to join our Team? Shoot us an email with your GitHub Account and Portfolio to look at: [email protected]

From the whole team behind Modreal Fashion, we would like to wish you a warm welcome to our blog. We will use it to update you guys with the latest news regarding the development of our app. & the team in charge. We would also be featuring some guest posts by different fashionistas and fashion designers all around the world.

In order to be more familiar with Modreal, we would like to share some general information with you:

Location: Montreal

Founded: July 2013

Founders: Artur Minacov & Alexander Ostrow

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/modrealfashion

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/modrealfashion

Type: Startup

Industries: Social Media & Fashion

Incubators/Accelerators: INcubes (Summer 2013 Cohort)

You can read about Modreal on Killer Startups: http://www.killerstartups.com/startup-spotlight/modreal-personal-online-lookbook/

Looking to write a guest post? Shoot us an email: [email protected]

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