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joegaudet
I am a cofounder of Matygo (one of the 5 companies) very excited to be a part of the first cohort!
mcrider
And Beverly Crusher is one of your users (http://www.matygo.com/features.html)!

Interesting stuff you guys are doing. Are you hiring yet? I live down the street from your offices :)

BTW, your blog page seems to be down.

joegaudet
hmmm the blog is hosted by tumblr.

blog.matygo.com.

We are in GrowLab now, hopefully we will be in talent acquisition mode by the end of the program.

mcrider
Temporary hiccough on my end I guess, its working now. Good luck with your project, I wish I had when I was in university (WebCT is a mess).
untog
Glad to see Vancouver making strides in incubating startups - I think there is a lot of space in Canada for this sort of thing. Sadly I had to leave a few years ago as my visa had expired.

Has Canada implemented any kind of Startup Entrepreneur visa yet? I'm in the US right now, but they still haven't implemented their Startup Visa yet, and given the current state of Congress I'm wondering if they ever will.

mcrider
Nothing really, although there is business class immigration. Basically you pay half a million dollars and you get a visa. The newest immigration path is the canadian experience class. Its a fairly streamlined process if you post-secondary education and/or a couple years of work experience in Canada. Or you can do what I did and shack up with a Canadian :)
untog
Ah, same as last time I looked then. About my only option is to spend a few years at university before launching a startup. Not really a practical path forward...
jamesteow
"I think there is a lot of space in Canada for this sort of thing."

Agreed, though a lot of the talented devs/designers end up moving to the U.S.

rdl
Is this related to Bootup Labs?
will_lam
it arose from the ashes of Bootup Labs
plainOldText
Vancouver has a lot of catch up to do with other cities in US. I'm glad to see it's heading in the right direction though.
eddanger
Really cool to see Vancouver jump on the start up bandwagon. We applied hoping for just the mentorship chunk, but I think they were looking for participants for the whole she-bang.

Would be interested to find a mentorship/marketing knowledge "incubator" for an already established corp.

ashishg
Excited to see what comes out of this program! I believe they're putting out applications for their 2nd intake around November