Founder News: Aggregated posts from Bootup Labs and Friends

  • Jul 30 / 2010
    Let's Go For Dinner
    The Edge offers a large, modern, yet comfortable room with both dining and lounge seating, as well as a generous outdoor patio that runs along the front of the restaurant which is set deep into the large street front courtyard. We’re focused on delivering a unique experience, so we’ve redefined tradition to create an exceptional and lively ambiance, a rare and varied menu with bold twists on classic dishes, and an unrivaled level of service that puts you first. We proudly inv...
  • Jul 30 / 2010
    Let's Go For Dinner
    When you talk about the best and/or most successful restaurants, or have a conversation about the best restaurants Vancouver has ever seen, it’s impossible to not mention Provence Marinaside.  Needless to say, we’re honoured to have them be part of the LetsGoForDinner.com family, and we’re excited to be able to offer them to our members. Go enjoy  one of the best. Provence Marinaside...
  • Jul 28 / 2010
    Eric Ries
    (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. It was written by Sarah Milstein in collaboration with kaChing CEO Andy Rachleff. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. If you haven't seen it, Pascal's recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. In the interes...
  • Jul 22 / 2010
    Let's Go For Dinner
    When I look for new spots to add, I try to find a little something for everyone.  This one’s for those who love food inspired from the south, from New Mexico to New Orleans, mixed with a healthy portion of live jazz and blues.  Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays is when the live music happens, but on Sundays the live jazz  is enjoyed during brunch! I got to try 3 dishes.  I shared the ’shrimp and grits with double smoked bacon, roast garlic, parsley and brown butter’ with a coupl...
  • Jul 22 / 2010
    Startup North
    Congratulations to the team at Vanilla Forums. In the past year they’ve attended TechStars in Boulder, moved to Montreal, and released version 2 of Vanilla Forums. What is Vanilla? “Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able, pluggable community forum. Over 350,000 sites use Vanill...
  • Jul 22 / 2010
    Startup North
    Happy 1st Birthday Guestlist! Guestlist has had a couple of weeks. On July 12, 2010 they launched their paid service which finally allows the company to generate fees for the great service they provide. We started using Guestlist for events starting on September 24, 2009 for DemoCamp Toronto...
  • Jul 21 / 2010
    Strutta
    Since we moved into our new space, we've been wanting some art to fill our empty walls. When Vancouver-based visual artist Indigo (@indindindigo) tweeted about some financial woes: We jumped at the chance to help out one of our favourite local artists and get a unique piece for the office! After we exchanged cash and ideas, we gave Indigo full creative reign. (I mean, have y...
  • Jul 21 / 2010
    Startup North
    Canada has a great financial sector, a growing economy, tons of smart people and a bunch of pretty snazzy exits recently. Yet, with all this Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association still predict that the number of VC firms in Canada will continue to decline (hat tip:...
  • Jul 20 / 2010
    Bootup
    Jon Gelsey will be coming up to Vancouver from Redmond to help us learn how to get to know Microsoft. Jon is Director of Corporate Development at Microsoft where he handles acquisition and investment opportunities for Microsoft’s operating systems, search, content and advertising business groups. Another great event by the...
  • Jul 17 / 2010
    Startup North
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