Two years after the company he co-founded was bought out by Salesforce.com, Gavin Uhma is giving back to the community with a new educational initiative that will help teach aspiring tech entrepreneurs how to build companies.

Uhma is still the chief technical officer of GoInstant, a Halifax company that has developed tools that allow people on different computers to work together on the same screen. But in his spare time, he’s working with others to develop an online course to help teach technology and entrepreneurship.

“We’re looking to people within the business community, proven startup founders, and asking them what you’d need to know to launch a company,” said Uhma in an interview last week.

Uhma declined to discuss who he is working with on this project, but said they hope to develop a complete course that will assemble all the online content needed to help develop startups. The content could be massive open online courses, or MOOCs, in which professors post university courses online for anyone to take. Or it could be a blog put out by startup specialists anywhere in the world.

“The idea is that it’s very goal driven,” said Uhma. “So say you have a goal to build an app or develop a pitch deck. All the resources you need would be in one place.”

He is now hoping to contact other tech entrepreneurs to help him find the best content available on the web, and to pass judgment on the material he and his partners have already assembled. “It’s really a curriculum of all the best content that’s out there as vetted by the best entrepreneurs around.”

He said the online program could be used as the course at an accelerator, or could even become an accredited course in a university. The idea is to bring enthusiastic entrepreneurs to the point at which they could join an accelerator or incubator to develop their idea into a bona fide business.

Still only 29, Uhma is renowned in tech circles as the guy who came up with the idea of a co-browsing system. At an Innovacorp social event in Sydney a few years ago, he shared the idea with Innovacorp’s entrepreneur-in-residence Jevon MacDonald, and together they developed GoInstant. In very short order, they received $1.7 million in funding and sold the company (reportedly for more than $70 million) to Salesforce.

While the business has been growing, the team has become evangelists for developing tech entrepreneurship in the region. MacDonald is the driving force behind Volta, the startup house in Halifax, and has been active in the movement to teach coding to school children.

Uhma said they have a broad vision to develop entrepreneurial talent: teach young people about technology in schools, use Uhma’s online system to develop entrepreneurial talent, and then encourage them to enter Volta.

Their projects are perfectly in keeping with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s so-called one-one-one philosophy, in which one per cent of the company’s profits, staff time and products are given to charity.

Uhma added he is putting some “seed funding into the project,” which he hopes will be launched in earnest in September.