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[brandondonnelly]

Rules are made to be broken. So which one is next?

Jevon MacDonald of StartupNorth published an interesting article today called, You are supposed to break the rules. It talks about entrepreneurship and how great companies are built by disregarding the way things are done today.

And I think it's for that reason that many stupid sounding ideas (think Airbnb and its initial idea of offering air mattresses) actually turn out to be great ideas. In reality, they weren't stupid ideas. They just contravened the norm, and that made them sound stupid. It made people feel uncomfortable. And as humans, we tend to have a bias towards things that reinforce our existing view of the world.

In any case, Jevon talks about some of the "big rules" that are being broken today. His list includes:

You can’t dispatch drivers without doing X

Cars can only be sold through dealerships

You can’t expose the MLS to the public, freely.

Hotels are just rooms, but there are a lot of other rooms travellers should be able to rent. Many cities are fighting that.

But really he's talking about Uber, Tesla, and Airbnb. They are the startups breaking those rules. However, that's old news for most of us. What's more interesting are the following two takeaways.

The first is his prediction that startups are going to start running into more and more regulatory hurdles. In other words, we're going to see more, not less, litigation. And I think he's right. As technology starts to creep into other industries (like it has with the taxi industry, the car industry, and the hospitality industry), we'll probably see a lot of incumbents fighting to hold on.

The second interesting takeaway for me was that out of his list of "big rules", the real estate industry (i.e. the MLS) is the only one that doesn't have a formidable disruptor attached to it. Which makes me wonder: Is something like Opendoor.com inevitable?

[smack416]

GoInstant purchased by Salesforce.

As I just read on StartupNorth, GoInstant has been acquired by Salesforce for a whopping $70 million. Huge congrats are in order for Jevon and his team. Very, very cool.

[vantechia]

Here in BC, we need to wake up. Recently, Toronto passed us as the technology hotbed with notable successes exiting in the past year such as Varicent (sold to IBM), Rypple (sold to Salesforce.com), Algorithmics (sold to IBM) and Kobo (sold to Rakuten). Looking forward, Jevon cites five initiatives that will help Canada’s technology industry achieve an incredible run for the next five years. I am paraphrasing him below and adding my own BC spin to these initiatives:

Linking to Jevon's StartupNorth post about "Canada's Next Five Years", Brent puts his own spin on what is needed in BC.

[borismann]

I know there are world-class founders and companies across Canada and while there are government supported organizations and purported lobby groups, we are just a bunch of founders trying to do the things that we find useful in building our companies.

» Founders & Funders An Update | StartupNorth

I love the "purported" lobby groups line. I think any group that isn't run by the people that benefit from it is a waste of time.

Founders & Funders is great event - if you can, get on a plane and go to Toronto to attend: it's worth it.

I tried to do it in Vancouver, but I eff'd it up.

[borismann]

The @startupnorth index has quietly gone public ( http://t.co/mFQJlLZK ) and there is a lot more to come.

via @jevon