The folks from all of the companies at Bootup Labs and the rockstars of Strutta get together for another great holiday video. Includes “Last Christmas” by Wham.
Jordan did a great job of pulling together the holiday lip dub again this year.
Jon cornered me after the Paul Kedrosky mixer and did a quick interview with me.
Thanks, Jon — the full transcript is particularly good.
My favourite spontaneous quote is “If you can’t even talk about what you’re passionate about and share it on the internet , how do you think you’re going to deal with the internet business?”
Of course, *talking* about ideas is always trumped by just going out and *building* them.
Via James Sherrett of AdHack -
This is pretty much word for word and slide for slide the talk Eric Ries gave at the Vancouver Agile meetup group. It was really outstanding and I recommend everyone working on a startup watch it.
We’d love to have Eric Ries in town again. We’re going to try and get him up under the BES International Mentor Program.
Jordan did a fantastic job trawling through the Bootup Labs Flickr Account and then creating this awesome “montage” of all the visitors we’ve had so far.
We’ve got an iMac setup in our entry hallway and make sure to grab a photo of everyone passing through the office. Come by and visit any time to get in the next version.
*cross-posted from the Strutta blog.
The winners have been announced, and Bootup Labs Managing Director Danny Robinson has been selected as one of the recipients of the PopVox Awards.
Strutta hosted the voting platform for the popular choice categories, and the Georgia Straight has already published the list of all of the winners. Four additional awards, chosen by a jury, were given out to Individual Standouts, and Danny was recognized as the top Industry Advocate. Here’s Danny with a few words following the acceptance of the award:
Want to snatch up some tickets to Launch Party Vancouver 7? There are still a few available.
The whole gang here at Bootup Labs HQ is very proud of Danny and this well-deserved bit of recognition. Morale is at a frenzied peak here at HQ, with lots of new faces and plenty of exciting announcements coming soon from the member companies. Stay tuned!
Part 1 and Part 2 of Brad Feld’s talk from the April 22 Bootup Labs Entrepreneurial Society event are up now on the BLES website (which has had a bit more info added to it). Here’s Part 1 embedded in this post:
Thanks to the other sponsors W Media Ventures, the BC Innovation Council, and Yaletown Venture Partners for helping BLES put this event on. Of course, many thanks to Brad Feld for making the time to come and visit: the feedback on his talk has been universally positive. We’ll cut the Q&A when the questions get too specific next time, giving more time for one-on-ones.
The International Mentor Program page on the BLES website has a few more details on what you can expect from more visitors to Vancouver. A post requesting recommendations for other people you’d like to see will be up next week.
Thanks as well to the volunteers who helped out with this event, especially Sonia Ryan and Neetu Chhabra who ran the registration desk, and Degan Beley who made people feel at ease by making them stand next to each other and get their picture taken. Thanks to Ron Stevens from Mingleverse for covering a big chunk of the speaker dinner afterwards.
Parveen Kaler did a great post on a lot of the content of the event and his approach – he’s building iPhone games at Smartful Studios. Anyone else have commentary to share outside of the great Twitter posts? Please link in the comments below!
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David Cohen’s post on Colorado Startups shows just how much Brad’s efforts in the entrepreneurial community are appreciated. It’s actually a perfect lead-in to tomorrow night’s event here in Vancouver, where Bootup Labs is hosting Beers with Brad Feld. Sponsored by W Media Ventures, BCIC, Yaletown Venture Partners
TechStars is the incubator that we feel philosophically most aligned with. Their successes don’t hurt, either 
Danny is down in the Valley right now, and attended their Demo Day. Here’s Vator.TV interviewing Brad Feld about the TechStars model.
Danny actually spoke with David Cohen of TechStars a couple of weeks ago. One of the really interesting pieces of information was that 50% of founders / companies decide to stay in Boulder after the program is over. 50% of companies staying and running companies in a city?! Sounds like pretty fantastic numbers.
In other news, we’re putting together the details around a Canadians in the Valley event — if you’re interested, sign up for that Upcoming link and we’ll update the details as we figure it out. Dana Oshiro and Rebecca Reeve are Canadian ex-pats that were going to take Danny and I for beer when we went down for the Plug & Play event, and of course we decided to turn that into something a little bigger. Thanks Dana and Rebecca for playing along so far.
So, I was mentioning last week some of the international incubators that are out there, in reference to meeting with Zac Boon from Thymos Capital in Singapore. Today Stefan Korn from Webfund in New Zealand stopped by our office, Vancouver being the first hop on the way to a conference in Montreal (of the Denturist Association of Canada — as we find out in the video, Canada apparently has the most denturists in the world).
As another aside, Singapore, New Zealand, and the province of BC all have approximately the same population: close to 4.5M people.
Here are the companies that Webfund is currently incubating:
We’re working through a couple of ideas on how to cross pollinate. With various connections to governments in different countries floating around, look for something maybe the middle of next year. In the more short term, there is Canadian government involvement in an event at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale. I added it to the Bootup Upcoming group, and we’re trying to track down more information from the government end of things.
I’ve been experimenting with the YouTube annotation method. We actually like Viddler for “produced” videos (it has great functionality to layer on a logo plus link automatically), but having the computer right there next to the kitchen makes it easy to do these “no editing” videos. Let me know if this is useful or distracting, either here or on Get Satisfaction.
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