Bootup Labs

Danny and I were interviewed by Curt Cherewayko, and he wrote about us in the Jun 9 - 15 edition of Business in Vancouver: You can read the whole article on the Techvibes site.

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...

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...

Last Thursday, we walked around Gastown looking at potential new office space with the folks from CBRE. We literally tore down a wall in our office to make space for more people, and we’re still kind of bursting at the seams...

Ed just posted an overview on the BLES website about the first Co Founder Connections event: Now, it’s relatively easy for a budding entrepreneur in this circumstance to find and hire a contractor to do the work for him...

I was really glad when Victoria Revay of SPLRG emailed to interview me for a Techvibes interview. I realized that we had been sitting on a ton of “new stuff”, and hadn’t done the best job sharing it...

Great article in Business Week today: ‘Super Angels’ Shake Up Venture Capital except we may not “shaking” venture capital up, we’re just reacting to the changing conditions of how investors are making money today...

Launch Party Vancouver 7 (fittingly) features 7 demo companies, and as always you get to cast your vote for the Startup Most Likely to Succeed. Voting is simple, and with just 7 companies, we encourage you to render judgment on each of them...

*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...

LPV6 img by John Biehler's iPhone 7 companies have been selected to demo at LPV7, a crop of promising startups that includes locals and a few “guest stars” as well...

The in-crowd that follows the @launchpartyhq and @bootuplabs accounts snapped up the free early bird tickets. But don’t worry, we’ll have various opportunities for some discounted tickets. First out of the gates will be our media sponsors, Techvibes...

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)...

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...

We’re heading into the latter half of April and it finally looks like the sun is out to stay here in Vancouver. Yes, the view out our office window is pretty killer. I just saw today that Yurii Rashkovskii is organizing what he calls Vancouver Venture Walks on Meetup...

Another Bootup Labs like model that we’re watching closely is Betaworks out of New York...

As we have said many times, Bootup Labs is most similar to TechStars in the way it operates. We can’t say enough how much respect we have for what they’ve accomplished. Today, Brad blogged about more TechStars portfolio company action with the merger of Limbo into BrightKite and a $9M financing...

I’ll go ahead and use the same title as Mark Maynard’s original post: What can we learn from Boulder? His write up is notes on the talk by Foundry Group’s Jason Mendelson in Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Jason] outlines the necessary traits of a successful entrepreneurial community...

My brother sent me this, but don’t know where it’s from. If this is yours, let me know so I can link to you and give you credit for some pretty entertaining translations VC Glossary

Brad Feld jumped the gun on us and got his blog post up first, when he saw our placeholder event. We’re super pleased that he’s making the time to come up to Vancouver and tell us about Boulder, the TechStars program, and his experience with startups and venture funding in general...

We’re in the prepping stages for the next Launch Party on May 28th and a few other upcoming events and educational workshops...

Before the crowds arrived, while the demo companies were getting set up at the Landing Building in Gastown, Bruce Sharpe of Singular Software was on hand to ask a few questions of the Founders: Big thanks to Bruce and his post production editor Matthew Deitcher...

Launch Party Vancouver 6 is on the runway, with 6 great companies on deck. Techvibes did a post adding all the startup profiles to their directory, so you can learn a bit more about them. Freebie tickets are gone, but you can still sign up to attend...

The judges have chosen, and six well-qualified Vancouver startups are set to demo their wares for you at Launch Party Vancouver 6. Like with Launch Party 5, we’ll feature each of the companies in a 2 min video and give you the chance to vote on which is most likely to succeed...

One of our ‘alpha’ companies, AdHack, kicked off a fun promotion last week, called Show us Your Balls. AdHack’s main premise is about becoming a marketplace for ads, where creatives and buyers can connect with each other...

I’ve got various bits and pieces of real-estate related news today, hence the Real Estate edition...

Yesterday was the first monthly VEF event. Danny is going to be helping to MC the lightning pitches that start them off, taking over from Dick Hardt. The next event is February 17th and will be about Social Networking Tools for Business Development (event reminder here)...

Woo hoo! I managed to get this wrapped up before lunch this week. As always, please send in your links or stories for inclusion next week. Keep your eyes on events next week - Techvibes is calling it Angel & VC week, and there is definitely a lot of stuff going on...

First, let me say that Wednesday Wrap Up is a terrible name. Got a better, witty one? Leave a comment or tweet us. Second, I didn’t predict that I was going to be doing another one, but it looks like there is definitely more than enough content on a weekly basis to do a link round up...

I don’t often do these kind of little link posts, but I had a lot of tidbits of news that I wanted to let people know about. Will it become a weekly thing? Tune in next time to find out! Northern Voice 2009 is now open for registration...

Kicking off the New Year, there are lots of great entrepreneurial, techie, and capital raising events coming up - Techvibes has a good roundup in their Venture Capital Outlook 2009, and we’ve updated our events listing at Upcoming — 13 events in January and counting...

Our office got together this week and did a fun holiday lip dub video: Thanks to Jordan for whipping us all into shape — check out the Strutta holiday page for the main post of this video...

Thanks to David Crow, Bootup Labs is now a Microsoft BizSpark Network partner...

Several people have sent this along to us already. We’ve definitely been looking at Montreal Startup’s model as we explore the details of how to set up Bootup Labs. I caught up with John Stokes and Austin Hill at the Banff Venture Forum and got some good detail on their progress...