dannyrobinson

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Work Fucking Harder - Why Culture Matters at HighTail(perch.co)
1 points by dannyrobinson 13y ago|0 comments
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Give Canada’s visiting brains a boost - Startup Visa Canada(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by dannyrobinson 15y ago|1 comments
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by dannyrobinson 16y ago
Startup Weekend Vancouver is coordinated by Shauna, Melody, Lyndi from Seattle. They contacted us looking for space, and we said no problem. They're volunteering to make something cool happen, and how could that not be great. Actually, we'r
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by dannyrobinson 16y ago
Some stuff happening. (by no means is this everything) Mozzilla Thunderbird is developed in Vancouver Stewart Butterfield's TinySpeck is half here and half in SFO. Facebook has a bunch of employees here Apple has a bunch employees here. Mic
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by dannyrobinson 16y ago
Completely agree that Vancouver could use more technical founders , but we do have plenty of "technical people", and you're right, lots are in the gaming industry. (the compass engine and dimerocker founders came from there) It's hard to f
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by dannyrobinson 16y ago
You're right! I will continue to work with everyone involved. Another accelerator was interested in possibly taking Status.ly in for their summer program, and I let Jamie know.
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by dannyrobinson 16y ago
Other accelerators get the same fee as well. There are expenses to operate the accelerator plus an investment in the startup, which is exchanged for % in the startup. Often 5%-6%. If you add this up, effectively, the companies are getting $
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by dannyrobinson 16y ago
As a manager of Bootup, I can assure you that we haven't been personally paid anything. The $50k is funnelled through the company to maximize canadian tax credits, which can amount to a meaningful amount of money. And it's used to pay for
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by dannyrobinson 17y ago
Please help us tell the Canadian Government to let founders start up here without the red-tape.