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Technical + UX/Designer = Love? Yes Speed Dating is back!

Posted by Angela on March 15, 2011 at 12:24 pm

Yes, you heard right… this time it’s TECHNICAL/UX DESIGNER ONLY!  No pesky business people allowed.

Registration for Co-Founder Speed Dating is now open on Crowdvine.

Log in, answer 6 easy questions and get ready to meet your match!

Event Details:

Wed Apr 6, 2011 @ Bootup HQ 163 West Hasting St, Suite 200

5-5:15p            Kickoff

5:15-6:15p       Speed Dating

6:15-7:15p       Drinks & Networking

Register here:  http://co-founderspeeddating.crowdvine.com/

Technical + Technical + UX/Design = Cool New Ideas

This unique event will bring together technical to meet technical and/or UX/Design folks to brainstorm, invent, re-create and get crazy.  No business people allowed!

See you April 6!

Your Dating Diva,

Angela

Next Co-Founder Speed Dating is Jan 5

Posted by Angela on December 7, 2010 at 12:52 pm

Co-Founder Speed Dating aims to bring together talented entrepreneurs with different backgrounds and skill sets to start innovative new companies.

Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors.  All too often you know people with similar backgrounds and skills sets to your own.  We help you find co-founders with complimentary skill sets.  Entrepreneurship can be lonely.  It’s important to have someone else there with you to help you ride out the lows and celebrate your successes.

Business + Technical = Cool New Company

This unique event will bring together 10 internet business entrepreneurs (people who sell stuff) and 10 technical entrepreneurs (people who build stuff/developers) with the goal of you finding the right partner.  You’ll get to spend some focused time with each of them discussing you and your big ideas.

Who should attend?

You may already have a business idea and now need a developer to help build the product.  Or you may be a developer looking for a way to break into the entrepreneurial world by syncing up with an idea person.  Perhaps… you have no idea yet, but in your soul, you are an entrepreneur. You need the right partner to kindle the startup spirit and ideas.

Whether you are technical and excited to create something or you have an Internet business idea that you are passionate about or you’re looking for the vision, this event is for you!

Save the date

We will be hosting the next Co-Founder Speed Dating Event on January 5, 2011 at Bootup HQ, 163 West Hasting St, Suite 200.  Keep your eyes peeled for a registration page coming soon, or email me directly.

After the event, we will continue the conversations over refreshments at Bootup.

Co-Founder Speed Dating

Posted by Angela on May 20, 2010 at 4:47 pm

Join us for Co-Founder Speed Dating to meet the RIGHT people for your business before Launch Party Vancouver 9.

Co-Founder Speed Dating

Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors. Co-Founder Speed Dating aims to bring together talented entrepreneurs with different backgrounds and skill sets to start innovative new companies.  All too often you know people with similar backgrounds and skills sets to your own.  We help you find co-founders with complimentary skill sets.  Entrepreneurship can be lonely.  It’s important to have someone else there with you to help you ride out the lows and celebrate your successes.  As the BES blog says,

.. finding a co-founder is a lot harder than finding a contractor or temporary help. So, how do you do it? As with all things people related, networking (off-line and on-line) is the answer. Yet, one of the biggest problems for early stage entrepreneurs, is that their social networks are small and local. We’ve been thinking about how we can help solve this problem (aside from manually introducing people we think might be a fit) and have come up with an idea: take all the early stage entrepreneurs, who are looking for co-founders, put them in a room together, and give them a chance to “speed date” with as many potential co-founders as they can.

How does it work? You’ll be matched with potential “dates” who have complimentary skills and interests.  You’ll get to spend some focused time with each of them discussing you and your big ideas.

Who should attend?

  • You have an idea that you want to pursue, but don’t have the right partner
  • You are a superstar with a job, but open to joining a founding team if the right idea came your way
  • You are an aspiring entrepreneur open to trying new ideas with the right mix of people

Interested? Fill out the form here.

Co-Founder Speed Dating is free to attend. If you’d like to continue the networking at LPV9, you must purchase tickets directly here.