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Local coverage in the Calgary Herald newspaper about Garrett Camp’s visit back to Calgary and his sharing of the StumbleUpon.com startup experience at STIRR Canada’s inaugural event. From the Herald article: “We wanted to have [Garrett] back to Calgary to … help coach the people in the room to what do we have to do [...]
Local coverage in the Calgary Herald newspaper about Garrett Camp’s visit back to Calgary and his sharing of the StumbleUpon.com startup experience at STIRR Canada’s inaugural event.
From the Herald article:
“We wanted to have [Garrett] back to Calgary to … help coach the people in the room to what do we have to do to make sure the next Garrett Camp, who might well be at one of the tables, has the opportunity to get mentored, funded and supported here so we can keep some of these great startup stories local, ” said Claudia Moore, a director of STIRR Canada and owner of Calgary-based technology company growth agent Material Insight Inc.“
And many thanks also to Techvibes for their support and coverage as well. Techvibes correspondent, Barcamp supporter, and technology intern, Cam Linke, came down from Edmonton to attend the Founders’ Table event. Thanks Cam!
Event Wrap-up
On Thursday evening, Albertan tech startup founders, funders, and emerging young guns filled the main floor of Calgary’s Bonterra Trattoria restaurant at STIRR Canada’s kick-off Founders & Funders Dinner event. Five hours later, after some great networking and facilitated dinner table conversations, people were still buzzing. A young startup founder remarked: “I can’t believe the [...]
On Thursday evening, Albertan tech startup founders, funders, and emerging young guns filled the main floor of Calgary’s Bonterra Trattoria restaurant at STIRR Canada’s kick-off Founders & Funders Dinner event. Five hours later, after some great networking and facilitated dinner table conversations, people were still buzzing.
A young startup founder remarked: “I can’t believe the caliber of people I just got to talk with or the amount I learned before dessert came. This has been the most productive tech event I’ve been to in Calgary.”
Participating companies included: Active Conversion, Broadramp, Calgary Scientific, Cambrian House, Cognera, CoolIT, Coril Holdings, Cornerstone Technologies, Datagardens, DirectVoxx, Dynastream, eSchedule, GamesCafe, iNovia Capital, Intervera, Loa Corporation, Mobovivo, Octane Venture Partners, Ph03nix New Media, Preo Software, Psyko Audio Labs … continue
Founders & Funders Dinner (Calgary)
Meet a local group of tech startup founders and funders for a networking dinner with Garrett Camp, co-founder of the ‘social search’ phenomenon StumbleUpon — at Calgary’s inaugural STIRR Canada Event. This dinner is an invitation-only event. Stay tuned for future, larger-scale, Tech Mixer events. Garrett was completing his Masters degree in Software Engineering at [...]
Meet a local group of tech startup founders and funders for a networking dinner with Garrett Camp, co-founder of the ‘social search’ phenomenon StumbleUpon — at Calgary’s inaugural STIRR Canada Event.
This dinner is an invitation-only event.
Stay tuned for future, larger-scale, Tech Mixer events.
Garrett was completing his Masters degree in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary when he and some friends co-founded StumbleUpon in 2001.
In May of 2007, eBay acquired the company for US$75 million. By then, millions of users were “stumbling” across great content on the Internet and sharing their finds. TechCrunch recently reported that StumbleUpon has registered its five millionth user.
(photo, right, courtesy of ‘Scott Beale/Laughing Squid’ under a Creative Commons llicense.)STIRR USA Mixer 2.3 in Photos
Photography by Lane Hartwell
