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Five Startups chosen for GrowLab’s First Vancouver Program

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34 pointsjoegaudet13 comments

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.

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 :)

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...

"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.

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.

I am a cofounder of Matygo (one of the 5 companies) very excited to be a part of the first cohort!

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

Is this related to Bootup Labs?

it arose from the ashes of Bootup Labs

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