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by Maura Rodgers (@Maurar) Another Launch Party is under our belt.  Our 8th Launch Party to be exact. Aside from finding a venue with a PA system that doesn’t make us sound like Charlie Brown’s Teacher or has sufficient AC to keep all 400+ of us a little cooler, I would call it a success.  I enjoyed seeing many familiar faces as well as meeting visitors from Seattle, Ontario, Kelowna, Cali... [read more]

The results are in and it’s time to announce the winners in the LPV8 Startup Contest. A panel of 8 Judges casted their votes for the “Startup Most Likely to Succeed” and awarded Hootsuite. From Judge Gary Yurkovich’s comments: “For social marketers, this is a great platform. Almost mandatory to have something like this when managing multiple Twitter accounts”. So a big congrats to Hootsuite! The people have sp... [read more]

The results are in and it’s time to announce the winners in the LPV8 Startup Contest. A panel of 8 Judges casted their votes for the “Startup Most Likely to Succeed” and awarded Hootsuite. From Judge Gary Yurkovich’s comments: “For social marketers, this is a great platform. Almost manda... [read more]

Here are a few “over heards” from last night’s Launch Party Vancouver 8 event: 6oz: Great job on #LPV8 last night @sonsryan ! It was teh hotness – both literally and metaphorically – Kirsten was demo’ing Hootsuite, and perhaps remarking on the fact that it was the temperatur... [read more]

We’re not doing a full Co founder Speed Dating event for this Launch Party, but we do want to keep helping potential co-founders to connect. We’ve decided that from now on, every Launch Party event will include a “Co Founder Corner”. We’ll have an area set aside where people who are looking for cofounders... [read more]

The judges have chosen and 8 companies have been selected to demo at LPV8, 5 from Vancouver, 2 from Seattle and 1 from Kelowna. As usual, we’ll feature each of the companies in a 2 min video and give you the chance to vote on which is most likely to succeed. Voting will begin starting Saturday, September 5th. We present to you the 8 companies (in no particular order) chosen to demo at LPV8. Lilipip Seattle-ba... [read more]

LPV is back with a Silicon Valley spin.  We are proud to announce our friends from San Francisco will be co-hosting the 8th installment of LPV.  Headquartered in San Francisco,  Dealmaker Media organizes a series of well attended, conferences and roundtables that connect CEOs, technology and entertainment executives, investors, analysts and press.  Dealmaker is very connected in the Valley and in LA. Th... [read more]

The results are in! The votes have been counted and it’s time to announce a winner in the LPV7 Startup Contest. A panel of 6 Judges casted their votes for the “Startup Most Likely to Succeed” and for the first time ever in LPV history Tynt won both Judge’s and Peop... [read more]

A special thanks the volunteers who helped out with LPV7, especially Magda Bukala, Danijela Eres and Casey Leung who ran the registration desk. Thanks to Jason Brown, Photographer who captured the event from his lenses. Thanks to Warren Frey from http://www.freyburg.com/"... [read more]

Hey all, great launch party! I was pleased to be in from Ontario, and happy to meet a lot of fantastic folks out here in Vancouver. In case I didn't get to chat with you, check out ca.sun.com/startup if you are in need of free advice, tech support, affordable hosting, major discounts on servers and storage, and cool promos and contests. We were so glad to be able to sponsor this great event, and I can't wait to get back here again! Sandra

A special thanks to all of our  sponsors. The tag for tonight is #LPV7 on Twitter, Flickr and elsewhere. See you all tonight at Steamworks Uber Lounge at 6pm. ahttp://www.cse.gov.bc... [read more]

... than crowdvine. the only props I can give them is the fact that their CEO actually emails you if you bitch them out on twitter, which was fun. although so far they haven't really done much to improve in the last year. anyhow, looking forward to seein' y'all at LPV7 next week. :)

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Boris Mann: One word: free :P Anything - like the Social Collective - that doesn't have a freemium level or a kick the tires 30 day test, isn't going to be a good fit for what we're looking for here. Spelling "festival" wrong on their customers page doesn't w...

Nick Bouton: Okay, you got me on that one. I didn't realize Crowdvine was free. I just felt like being critical, heh. :) Free takes the edge off a lot of things. There's a free version of the Telligent Community Server that you may want to check out too. I'm p...

Boris Mann: I actually configured the discussions to post to Twitter using RSS and Hootsuite, so no blame there :P You don't have to re-register - your login (per email) is unique and you can "activate" your profile for new networks. What you DO have to do is...

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The Georgia Straight’s technology reporter, Stephen Hui, caught up with Maura via iPhone on all the exciting things going on with Bootup Labs & Strutta: Maura Rodgers is an enthusiastic promoter of Vancouver’s technology sector. The 35-year-old entrepreneur is one of the founders of Launch Party Vancouver, a series of mixers organized by the Bootup Labs Entrepreneu... [read more]

The Georgia Straight’s technology reporter, Stephen Hui, caught up with Maura via iPhone on all the exciting things going on with Bootup Labs & Strutta: Maura Rodgers is an enthusiastic promoter of Vancouver’s technology sector. The 35-year-old entrepreneur is one of the founders of Launch Party Vancouver, a series of mixers organized by the Bootup Labs Entrepreneu... [read more]

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Launch Party Vancouver 7 (fittingly) features 7 demo companies, and as always you get to cast your vote for the Startup Most Likely to Succeed. Voting is simple, and with just 7 companies, we encourage you to render judgment on each of them. Once your account is registered and verified, just rate each video between 1 and 5 stars. The overall winner will be a... [read more]

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A reminder that we're doing cofounder speed dating starting at 4pm at the same location as Launch Party. Please fill out the speed dating specific questions -- are you business or technical? are you looking or offering? Don't forget to fill up your "to meet" list and connect at the event.

7 companies have been selected to demo at LPV7, a crop of promising startups that includes locals and a few “guest stars” as well. Here is the crop of companies that you can check out at the event, and soon you’ll be able to cast your votes on (vote starts Saturday AM) the LPV7 Strutta-powered voting site. Here they are, in no particular order: Foodista Seattle-... [read more]

7 companies have been selected to demo at LPV7, a crop of promising startups that includes locals and a few “guest stars” as well. Here is the crop of companies that you can check out at the event, and soon you’ll be able to cast your votes on (vote starts Saturday AM) the LPV7 Strutta-powered voting site. Here they are, in no particular order: Foodista Seattle-... [read more]

The in-crowd that follows the @launchpartyhq and @bootuplabs accounts snapped up the free early bird tickets. But don’t worry, we’ll have various opportunities for some discounted tickets. First out of the gates will be our media sponsors, Techvibes. Have a fun idea to get people out to Launch Party and wa... [read more]

We’re in the prepping stages for the next Launch Party on May 28th and a few other upcoming events and educational workshops. Anecdotal feedback has been really positive about our events, but as we’re gearing up to plan some more through out the year, we’d like to get some direct responses on what you like, what you don’t like, and anything else you’d like to tell... [read more]

Before the crowds arrived, while the demo companies were getting set up at the Landing Building in Gastown, Bruce Sharpe of Singular Software was on hand to ask a few questions of the Founders: Big thanks to Bruce and his post production editor Matthew Deitcher. Early heads up: LPV7 is already in the works. V... [read more]

Here are some links to help you along.  Who's coming: http://crowd.launchpartyhq.com (well, not everyone who's coming signed up to our crowdvine site, but a lot did, and we encourage you to as well. Tickets: http://lpv6.eventbrite.com Contest: http://lpv6.launchpartyhq.com ... [read more]

The judges have chosen, and six well-qualified Vancouver startups are set to demo their wares for you at Launch Party Vancouver 6. Like with Launch Party 5, we’ll feature each of the companies in a 2 min video and give you the chance to vote on which is most likely to succeed. Voting will begin starting Monday, Feb 16. Here’s a sneak-peak at the six companies chosen to demo their products at Launch Party Vancouver 6: ahttp://w... [read more]

You've been waiting patiently, and now the good news is here.   Launch Party Vancouver 6 will take place February 26 at the Landing Building in Gastown. There's still time to get in and get your tickets to the event, so don't wait. This event sells out every time.    Like with LPV5, we'll feature each of the demo companies' videos, and let you ... [read more]

The results are in!   The votes have been counted, and it's time to announce a winner in the LPV5 Startup Contest . A panel of seven judges cast their votes for the "Startup Most Likely to Succeed," and awarded the $1000 cash prize, sponsored by Bootup Labs, to ahttp://www.clarityaccounting.co... [read more]

I was trying to flip the switch on the new design before Launch Party last night, but called away to do ‘networking’: you know, the kind that has you lasso’ing ethernet cables over a bar’s rooftop We’ll see if the switch does in fact get thrown today — at left a fun image that is going to ... [read more]