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54 Hours In The Okanagan Building A Startup

54 Hours In The Okanagan Building A Startup

By Phil Whelan on March 5, 2012

Remember, Startup Weekend equates to about 21 hours of development time and that includes brainstorming, planning, talking to mentors, other meetings, eating and a bit of fun. Also, skill-sets between developers do not always line up. The key phrase is “ship it!” whether it is good, bad, ugly or broken. The clock is ticking.

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Location, Location, Location

Location, Location, Location

By Phil Whelan on October 2, 2010

I’ve been meeting other Vancouver entrepreneurs at various networking events and discussing ideas with them. A common theme I’m seeing is that most of them are very focused on building technology with location-based data at the heart of the application. This is the next (or current) big thing and it feels like everyone is jumping [...]

Posted in bootstrapping, startup, vancouver | Tagged app store, catch the canary, compass engine, development, entrepreneur, facebook places, flock and swarm, foursquare, location, location data, location-based data, mobile development, startup, twitter | 2 Responses

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