Vancouver’s Indicee is Leading the Consumerization of Business Intelligence Software
If you were constructing a lineage list of Vancouver’s technology business, contributors from Aerospace, Fuel Cell/Clean-Tech,…
Vancouver’s RentMoola Means No Paper and All Perks
The payment industry is being disrupted by companies like Stripe and Payfirma, and the smartphone is becoming our wallet.…
Conservatives Visit Vancouver Amid Concerns About the Startup Visa
Immigration is our story. Immigrant brawn helped settle our Prairies and connect our country with a railroad. Immigrant brains…
BCIC-New Ventures Competition Winners Share $300,000
Money talks. BS walks. And for the 146 different BC technology startups vying for a share of the prize in the 2013 BCIC-New…
Talking with Apes: Creating, Innovating, and Contributing to Vancouver’s Gaming Community
Metrics like headcount and revenue can only go so far in terms of defining a startup. For some startups, its the culture that…
A Startup CEO’s Financing Cautionary Tale
Utility companies lose $202 billion every year due to theft and technical inefficiencies that plague the worldwide electrical…
Is Big Data A ‘Big Hype’ Or a Really Big Deal?
According to Gartner’s 2013 hype cycle for emerging technologies, big data resides almost at the summit of “the peak of…
The #100Heroes Campaign Wants to Build 100 Schools in Six Weeks
Congratulations. You’re reading this, which means you’ve attained some level of education. For some, education is like…
Seamless is the Mobile Answer to Reducing Hospital Readmissions
Tax-time can be tough on the wallet, root-canal therapy isn’t much fun and moving doesn’t count as one of life’s…
Manaya is a Better Way to Connect Landlords with Future Tenants
In many markets, Craigslist is the de facto service connecting landlords with their future tenants. Sure there are some other…
From Seed to Scale, Farm at Hand Allows Everything to be Tracked
Creating a list for the entrepreneur’s hall of fame would likely include names like Sir Richard Branson and Elon Musk…
Hitcase: Film and Share Extreme Moments, While Protecting your Phone like IronMan
Fulfilling a personal desire to work with the most advanced and classified technology means Vancouver entrepreneur Brooks Bergreen…
ContentDJ: The Little Guy doing Big Things for the Little Guy
The vibrancy, vitality, and importance of small business can’t be overlooked when it comes to our economy. It’s estimated as…
Cognilab: Joining GrowLab and Crowdsourcing the Answers to the Brain’s Biggest Mysteries
The brain is big business. Both the NHL and the NFL are grappling with the impacts that concussions are having on their…
A conversation with Nir Eyal about Behavior Engineering and why the last cookie in the jar is so tempting
Some debates end in a draw. There’s no right answer, and there’s no definitive winner. Is entrepreneurship a function…