Last week was one of the most interesting days of the Calgary-Alberta Tech Week, the stampede at night.
I had the opportunity to attend several amazing events and get in touch with more than 100 people I haven't seen in a while.
All the events I attended-start Party, cheater lunch, Osprey-
Pixel Stampede party, accelerate kick
Guan, accelateab, accelateab after the party, the OGM Stampede party are doing a good job.
Thank you for your hard work and hard work.
You can read a detailed review of the launch of Andrew Brown in Calgary here and here.
At the end of the week, nearly 100 people from different backgrounds gathered for the start-up weekend at Mount Royal University.
Melanie Jones, from the Houston SURGE Energy software accelerator, talked about the opportunities in the Energy sector and why kalgarin startups should be looking in their own backyard.
Alex Raczenko of Calgary innovation held a seminar to market products to investors, and Evan Hu of Ideaca held a seminar on lean startup and customer development (
All presentations are linked together).
About 60 people published their ideas, 12 of them voted by the audience.
Then 54-
Business model creation, market validation, coding, and design lead to an hourly frenzy of the smallest viable product (MVP).
On Sunday, the teams showed Dan Parker's panel of judges their final product (Azure Capital), Alex Popa (Boast Capital)Michael Kerr
Alberta innovation and technology futures)Lori Stewart (EZ-Robot), Evan Hu (Ideaca), Pat Lor (Dissolve), Munaf Samji (The OGM)
Eric schmadek (
EnerTech Capital), Robert Hart (
Cloud Council of Canada)
Michelle Steiner (ACAD)
And Melanie Jones. SURGE).
Business-to-
Business/enterprise topics can be particularly challenging for participants.
For those of you who are under a lot of pressure, the start jar team is offering yogoga on the deck.
Still, energy levels are still high throughout the weekend and some very interesting business applications follow.
Here is a simple example: WellTell, powered by a smartphone
The time well monitoring system enables energy companies to monitor marginal and low-yield wells in a cost-effective manner.
This is an easy way for construction sites, oil and gas companies, etc.
Reporting events. AdPush – real-
Conduct time-focused and situational advertising through digital signage.
For example, if it rains outside, AdPush will display ads for umbrella or soup and sandwich deals at the nearest cafe.
Match local talent with local startups.
Imagine it as an online appointment for new startups and potential employees looking for more fulfilling jobs.
If you can't afford to pay for talent, start jar will also allow you to share resources with other startups.
ENVData-environmental review software that instantly extracts data from various sources to provide baseline environmental information and limitations to oil and gas companies.
Project KISS-lightweight online Project management tool, you can set up and manage multiple concurrent short-term projects quickly and easily.
Breezingly-allows you to easily create a gorgeous website for your business or yourself from your social feed.
Never update your website again.
No need to learn HTML and CSS, no need to pay a high consultation fee, and no need to fiddle with broken content management systems.
Just use the social platform you already like.
Online competency testing solutions for recruiting candidates.
Full recall-allows the user to scan the barcode and immediately receive real-time information about the products related to recall information, pricing, and crowdsourcing product descriptions and reviews.
Penguin game app Pecky to promote a healthy lifestyle.
PrintToPeer-lets everyone use 3D printing by allowing members to rent unused time from someone else's 3D printer. Scheduleme.
In-allows you to book all appointments through one portal.
Individuals can see the availability of a particular business, or they can use their own schedules to find a business with the corresponding availability.
The winner is . . . . . . Easily Win runner-up.
ENVData won the best energy Launch Award.
PrintToPeer wins best businessto-
Start a business.
Thanks to the judges, coaches, mentors, sponsors, participants and the awesome startup community in Calgary who have made this all a great success.
In the global startup week of November, you can't wait for the next one.
Lobollobo Lobo is a Evangelist and community leader for a startup who is
Chairman of Cloud Factory, global host of start-up weekend, lecturer of start-up weekend, board member of start-up Calgary, startup columnist of Calgary Herald, contributor of OGM and Techvibes.
Lloyd is also a partner of Boast Capital, a financial consulting firm with offices in Calgary, Vancouver and Silicon Valley specializing in scientific research and experimental development (SR&ED)
/R & D tax credits and plug & play Canada, subsidiaries of Silicon Valley plug & play Technology Center, accelerators and seedsstage investor.
Previously, Lloyd was the sales and marketing director of Philadelphia TicketLeap and AL Systems, New Jersey.
Lloyd studied software and electrical engineering at the University of Lakehead, studied marketing at New York University, and studied public relations management at the University of California, Los Angeles.