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| Sep 1, 2014 | Vandrico Wants To Become The Wearables Platform For The Workplace | If you know about Vandrico, it’s probably because of the company’s cool wearables database we featured earlier this year. That was just a byproduct of Vandrico’s research, however. What the company is really about is bringing wearables into... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Whistler GROW Hackathon generates big ideas | Article content
Mix 70 developers and other techies with a generous helping of leading-edge tech gadgets, sprinkle in lots of data sets, put them in a world class resort and what do you get? |
| Jul 21, 2014 | This summer, don't miss GrowthBeat & GROW Conference | With all the advances in mobile technology, growing the business is readily becoming more science than art. Using the latest optimization, automation and big data, technology will help you understand how to attract and engage customers for ... |
| Jan 2, 2014 | C100 Gives Top Fundraisers the Nod in Year-End Review | C100, the non-profit, member-driven organization that supports Canadian technology entrepreneurship through mentorship, partnership and investment, has named Canada’s top funding announcements of 2013.
C100 organizes popular events for the ... |
| Nov 25, 2013 | Startup Genome Highlights: Vancouver, BC, CAN | This week in the “Startup Genome Highlights" video series we talk with Claire Atkin (@weareyvr) who tells us about Vancouver, BC, CAN
In the video, Claire mentions:
Launch Academy
Grow Lab
WaveFront
HootSuite
Gastown
Revolver Coffee
Fu... |
| Aug 20, 2013 | PiP Uses Facial Recognition To Reunite Lost Pets With Their Owners | Having your dog or cat run away is pretty traumatic. And even if somebody finds your furry friend, they might not know where to find you. If your pet ends up in a shelter, chances are high that it will be euthanized, so Philip Rooyakkers, t... |
| Aug 18, 2013 | Vancouver’s GROW Conference Shines A Spotlight On Canada’s Growing Startup Scene | When it comes to the tech conference circuit outside of Silicon Valley, Canada is probably not top of mind for most people, but I’ve got a feeling that’s slowly changing. Last week, Vancouver hosted the fourth edition of the GROW conference... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | InteraXon Raises $6M Series A Round From Horizon, A-Grade And Others For Its Brainwave-Sensing Headset | InteraXon, the Toronto, Canada-based company behind the Muse headset for thought-controlled computing, today announced that it has raised a $6 million Series A round from a number of prominent investors, including Horizon Ventures, OMERS Ve... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | Perch Launches Video “Portal” Service For Distributed Teams | Perch for iOS wants to help businesses build a persistent video portal between their offices to help teams work together more effectively. The service originally started out as an asynchronous video chat tool for families, but as the compan... |
| Aug 6, 2013 | Accelerators doubling annually: too much of a good thing? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The hip way to start a tech company is definitely... |
| Aug 6, 2013 | Accelerators doubling annually: too much of a good thing? | The hip way to start a tech company is definitely via an accelerator. But for how long?
The number of accelerators has grown from just a handful a few years ago to more than 200 globally today. They help startups with small amounts of fundi... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | Countdown to GROW: How to recruit top talent for your startup | Article content
After sitting through countless university lectures, University of Waterloo grads Mike Silagadze and Mohsen Shahini came up with a more productive way for students to use their smartphones, notebooks and tablet computers tha... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Countdown to GROW: Vancouver conference brings Silicon Valley to Vancouver | Article content
For Canadian tech startups that can’t all get to the Silicon Valley, Debbie Landa is bringing the Valley to them.
The Saskatoon-raised Landa, founder and CEO of Dealmaker Media is among 300,000 Canadians living and working i... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | Are conferences a waste of time? | This sponsored post is produced by Andrew D’Souza, COO of Top Hat.
About this time last year I was asked to participate in a pre-conference pitch event in San Francisco produced by the folks behind the GROW conference. It was being judged b... |
| Jul 5, 2013 | Coworking Camp is summer camp for founders — in a gorgeous Mediterranean resort | Startups on a plane, startups on a train. Startups having fun, startups in the sun?
That’s the concept behind Coworking Camp, the brainchild of CoworkingSalzburg founder Romy Sigl, following in the footsteps of Geeks on a Plane, startups on... |
| Jul 5, 2013 | Coworking Camp is summer camp for founders — in a gorgeous Mediterranean resort | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Startups on a plane, startups on a train. Startup... |
| Dec 17, 2012 | U.S. visa system helps stifle early stage startup Taploid | Today we tell the sad tale of how one startup went down. Taploid, a DEMO company that hoped to be the tabloid of the social world, is folding up today after running out of money, hitting walls with U.S. immigration, and failing to get acqui... |
| Dec 17, 2012 | U.S. visa system helps stifle early stage startup Taploid | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today we tell the sad tale of how one startup wen... |
| Oct 17, 2012 | Anyone who has started, will start, or wants to start a startup MUST watch this video | If you could bottle the essential startup advice of some of the best founders and VCs in the world, what would it look like?
Probably something like the video that Debbie Landa just produced. She’s the founder of GROWlab accelerator and GRO... |
| Oct 17, 2012 | Anyone who has started, will start, or wants to start a startup MUST watch this video | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you could bottle the essential startup advice ... |
| Sep 5, 2012 | Ooomf: saving your mobile app from app store oblivion | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
How do you promote your app before it’s even launched? Or create buzz around just one more app in a sea of 600,000 others?
One option i... |
| Aug 29, 2012 | Podio Cuts Down On Unnecessary Emails With New Email Integration, @Mentions For Workspaces | Collaborative work platform Podio, the Danish Yammer and Basecamp competitor that was acquired by Citrix earlier this year, launched two new features today that are meant to help businesses and small teams cut down on internal emails. Start... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | Dave McClure: hottest investments, favorite start-ups, biggest screwups, and clueless founders | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Dave McClure is one... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | Dave McClure: hottest investments, favorite start-ups, biggest screwups, and clueless founders | VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Dave McClure is one of the most prominent angel investors in Silicon Valley — and possibly the world. His accelerator, 500 Startups, will fund its 500th company sometime this year. And no, in answer to “all the... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | Screw design and get data, says Ben Huh of I Can Has Cheezburger | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Who cares about goo... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | Neil Patel’s 10 tips on using metrics to make money | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Neil Patel didn’t s... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | Screw design and get data, says Ben Huh of I Can Has Cheezburger | VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Who cares about good design or bad design, Ben Huh of the wildly successful Cheezburger network of comedy sites said today at GROW 2012. According to Huh, you don’t need great design to have a successful design... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | Neil Patel’s 10 tips on using metrics to make money | VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Neil Patel didn’t start web analytics company KISSmetrics because he loved the product, or the idea, or the customers. Very simply, he wanted to make money, as he told the crowd here at GROW 2012 yesterday.
Aft... |
| Aug 22, 2012 | Vancouver: Hollywood North’s tech scene is growing, growing, not yet grown | Hollywood North? L.A. with rain? The city that riots whenever its hockey team doesn’t win the Stanley Cup?
Americans might think of Vancouver in many ways — but typically not as a tech startup mecca.
And yet Summify, A Thinking Ape, OpenCal... |
| Aug 17, 2012 | Food.ee: The Magic of a Catered Office Lunch | On her second week on the job as Yahoo’s new CEO, Marissa Mayer announced that lunches in the company cafeteria would be free.
A longtime offering at Google, Mayer’s previous employer, the free lunch symbolizes a company’s commitment to its... |
| Aug 9, 2012 | Win a free ticket to GROW2012 Conference and a Nokia Lumia 800 phone | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This sponsored post is produced by the GROW Confe... |
| Aug 9, 2012 | Win a free ticket to GROW2012 Conference and a Nokia Lumia 800 phone | This sponsored post is produced by the GROW Conference.
The GROW Conference is less than three weeks away and we’re giving you a last minute chance to win a ticket to attend.
If you want a shot at winning the phone and a free ticket to GROW... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Take control of your serendipitous success | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This sponsored post is produced by By Brian Wong,... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Take control of your serendipitous success | This sponsored post is produced by By Brian Wong, Founder and CEO of Kiip.
As I reflect on the last several years of my life, it has been a pretty wicked ride. Growing up in Vancouver and going on to create to create a truly disruptive comp... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Think Seattle has startup mojo? Vancouver’s GROW Conference kicks it up a notch (or two) | This sponsored post is produced by Chris DeVore of Founders Co-op.
As a Seattle-based seed investor, it’s my job to scout out the most talented and ambitious software teams located anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. Four years ago, Andy and... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Think Seattle has startup mojo? Vancouver’s GROW Conference kicks it up a notch (or two) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This sponsored post is produced by Chris DeVore o... |
| May 21, 2012 | Vancouver Startup Accelerator GrowLab Reveals Second Batch, Hires Super Angel Mike Edwards | When you think entrepreneurial ecosystems, you probably think Silicon Valley (and the Bay Area), New York, and London. But Canada has something to say about that. In Startup Genome’s list, one finds three Canadian cities in the top 25. Natu... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | iPad mag app Zite rumored to be in acquisition talks with CNN with a $20-25M pricetag | Zite, a personalized magazine app for the iPad, is said to be talking to CNN about an acquisition. According to at least one report, the news network is offering between $20 million ad $25 million for the tablet app startup.
At last week’s ... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | iPad mag app Zite rumored to be in acquisition talks with CNN with a $20-25M pricetag | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Zite, a personalized magazine app for the iPad, i... |
| Aug 19, 2011 | 10 Lessons Learned at GROW 2011: Dealing with next-gen companies and customers | Article content
Location, location, location is being replaced by attention, attention, attention as the new mantra for businesses looking to succeed in today’s digital economy.
That was a key message from Thursday’s Grow conference in Vanc... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | 10 Lessons Learned at GROW 2010 | Article content
The biggest and costliest mistake the online shopping giant Zappos made during the company’s meteoric rise was hiring too quickly and firing too slowly.
While that may seem an unlikely admission from the man who wrote Delive... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | Groupon: A deal a day keeps the money rolling in | Article content
I ran into a friend Sunday whose hair was still wet from a wind surfing session off Jericho Beach.
I didn’t know she was a wind surfer – and she wasn’t – until Groupon.com turned her into one with an online coupon from Winds... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Silicon Valley descends on Vancouver for GROW 2010 | Article content
Silicon Valley is shifting to Vancouver for three days later this month as venture capitalists and entrepreneurs from California’s tech hub converge on the city for GROW 2010.
It’s a conference first for Vancouver, where tec... |
