Integrate Demopods at Startup Empire
Last night Integrate had its first public appearance at StartupEmpire. At night there was an after party hosted by Microsofts Bizspark where we had a table showing off our application to attendees.
The conference was Canada’s version of StartupSchool with speakers such as Rick Segal and Austin Hill during the day, talking about raising VC and legal work for startups. There was a lot of good information for early companies but what stood out was the openness of the Toronto tech startup community. In this industry there is no shortage of support for startups online but having a solid local community is very valuable.
We got some quality feedback and a few blank stares (FYI enterprise software can be a tough sell to the social network crowd). We also meet some great people like Leila from Idee and Pema from GigPark.
We’re looking forward to the next meetups, hopefully the “FuckupCamp”-the conference for startup horror stories-that Rick mentioned gets set up.
Advice on what not to do from real world experiences can be more useful then broad recommendations. My own take on the mishaps of my previous startup was one of the most popular posts on this site.
Thanks goes out to Jevon Macdonald, David Crow and Jonas Brandon for organizing the event.
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Great to see you too, Dan!
And best of luck with your work on Integrate.
I wasn’t at the sessions during the day so I didn’t hear about FuckupCamp. “the conference for startup horror stories” sounds pretty interesting though. See you there
Dan: good to see you out there. Integrate looks like the beginning of a great application. Keep on trucking! Holler if you need anything.