Advisor
Boris Mann (He/Him)
I build global communities. At @fissioncodes, we're building infrastructure and developer tools for the future of computing
I build global communities. At @fissioncodes, we're building infrastructure and developer tools for the future of computing
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Experience
Full Stack Foundry
Founder, Managing Partner
Ran a seed fund for 2 years working with early stage startups, then fund management and founder support. Successfully returned the fund.
Bootup Labs
Founder, Co-founder
Co-founded the first modern startup accelerator in Canada. Ran two cohorts.
Bryght
Founder, Co-founder, CEO
Created the first commercial company around the open source Drupal CMS. Built worldwide developer community.
Founder
Employee
Advisor
Board Member
Projects
Standard term sheets for startup funding in Canada
Project Lead - Community & Collaboration · Ran the community and collaboration aspects of a set of lawyers, investors, and community members across… · More Canada. Facilitated in person workshops, built partnerships for distribution and education.
Standard Term Sheets for Early Stage Startup Investment in Canada. NACO is developing standard document templates that will be broadly applicable to its members as a starting point for negotiating investment terms with startups. The resulting templates should act as a reliable guideline for both investors and founders and cover 80% of the content (terms) required to negotiate investments in 80% of member early-stage investment scenarios.
Standard Term Sheets for Early Stage Startup Investment in Canada. NACO is developing standard document templates that will be broadly applicable to its members as a starting point for negotiating investment terms with startups. The resulting templates should act as a reliable guideline for both investors and founders and cover 80% of the content (terms) required to negotiate investments in 80% of member early-stage investment scenarios.
Education
About
Achievements
First commercial Drupal company with @Bryght. Helped build & run events worldwide to grow the developer community.
First startup accelerator in Canada with @Bootup Labs.
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
Skills
Locations
Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
Social Architecture: Building On-line Communities, by Pieter Hintjens. Open source communities are still relatively young, and Hintjens goes through everything from licensing to issue management. Great first hand learnings.