Our friends at Bootup Entrepreneurial Society in Vancouver are hosting DemoCamp Vancouver 11 – Back to Basics Edition on July 22, 2010.

The format goes back audience voting. Head to the event, post your demo on the grid, then you get 30 seconds to pitch why you should be given a demo slot. This is a great format that hopefully changes it from “show” back to community gathering.

There will be no featured presentations. We are going back to the old school DemoCamp schedule.

Format

• come in the door and post your demo idea on the board
• 30 minutes of meeting other attendees (promote your idea, get votes!)
• presentation process starts at 6:00pm
• 30 second elevator pitches by all presenters
• attendees vote on top 4
• we will have 4 x 6 minute talks (time limit enforced, includes feedback time!)

Details

When: Thurday, July 22nd

Where: Ceili’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 670 Smithe St., Vancouver

Time: Registration at 5:30pm, Presentation process at 6:00pm

Register

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Did you know that the next DemoCampGuelph is happening Wednesday July 21, 2010 at the The Ebar (41 Quebec St., Guelph, ON)?

It’s a chance to see April Dunford talk about Startup Marketing. April brings a unique enterprise focused view of product development and marketing. She is a world-class speaker talking about product marketing, product development and go-to-market strategies for emerging companies. April provided the keynote in Toronto in March 2010.

Sign up to attend on Guestlistapp

Brydon and the gang in Guelph are hosting the next DemoCamp Guelph on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at the The Ebar (41 Quebec St., Guelph, ON). They are hosting our good friend Rob Hyndman who is a co-organizer of #HoHoTO, MeshU, and Mesh Conference. He’s also startup lawyer to the high tech stars. You can follow Rob on Twitter.

It’s great to see the efforts to connect the community in Guelph.

Wrestlemania 26 happened on Sunday, DemoCamp 26 was on Monday. Coincidence? Probably. We had some fun tussles with technology and time last night. Thank you everyone for coming out to DemoCamp Toronto # 26 last night. It was a great night. We’re always happy to get your feedback, suggestions and comments. The list of demos included:

• April Dunford added her keynote presentation
• OpenApps
• TeamSave
• Kobo
• SwixHQ
• Status.net

There were a number of other links mentioned. You can find local tech calendar information at StartupNorth and YouSayYeah!.

• Liberty Noodle
• StartMeUpRyerson
• Steve Blank – Four Steps to the Epiphany [book]
• Mesh U
• OCE Discovery
• Geek Girl Dinner
• OpenWebTO
• World Plone Day Toronto
• Business Model Generation workshop in Toronto
• Inspirational Flying Machines
• StartupDrinks

If you are hiring or looking for a new gig, make sure you check out:

• Jobs.DavidCrow.ca – jobs in user experience, design, product development, marketing, business development, project management
• Jobs.StartupNorth.ca – jobs with startups and emerging technology companies
• Mesh Jobs – Jobs for marketers, policy, web 2.0, etc.
• RedCanary
• Grossman Dorland Recruiters

April added her presentation and commentary for startups. It’s really worth reading and walking through.

• Date: April 15, 2010 – 6pm to 9pm
• Location: ClockTower Brew Pub (575 Bank St. and 417, downstairs)
• Format: 5 demos: 2 minute introduction, 8 minute demo, 5 minutes for Q&A and discussion 
• Sign up to attend: http://guestlistapp.com/events/18768
• Propose something to demo: http://barcamp.pbworks.com/DemoCampOttawa13

DemoCamp is great opportunity to demo your application that may be a work in progress, close to release or even in full production. The room will be filled with fellow developers, designers, marketers and other professionals interested in startups and web applications. A great crowd to garner some valuble feedback, find a collborator, potential clients and employees.  

Please keep in mind that no powerpoint slides are allowed! only working applications. We will do our best to have a reliable internet connection available and will follow up with all those who have signed up for demos to go over what is available. 

Looks like a roadtrip to Ottawa.

It’s time for DemoCamp again. Our friends at Liberty Noodle are providing food. So there is not a made rush to the hot dog cart.

DemoCamp Toronto 26

Monday, March 29, 2010
Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, 55 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON
Purchase tickets: http://guestlistapp.com/events/16851
$12 regular ticket | $10 student ticket | Flexible sponsorship

Why should I attend?

Its time to launch your product? Do you need to hire designers? engineers? marketers? biz dev? This is a great spot to meet and connect with the Toronto community.

For nearly 5 years we have built a track record of helping connect, promoting and making successful for some of the most engaging products to emerge in Canada. The goal is to connect the entrepreneurs, designers, marketers, developers, and others that are the fabric of emerging technology and media companies in Canada together to share, to educate, to connect with each other and other valuable members of the ecosystem.

How do I present?

Fill out the form

Help me help you. Explain the problem you solve, your market, your customer, how you are different, and why now. We’re looking for startups/companies/products that have third-party validation (external funding; real customers; etc.) and traction.

Why do we do this?

The strength of the network is based on both the number of nodes and the quality of the connections. DemoCamp is one of many local events to help local emerging technology entrepreneurs, startups, designers, marketers, connect with each other and a support ecosystem. Ranging from lawyers (CognitionLLP, Hyndman|Law, Laberge Weinstein, others), accountants (KPMG), recruiters, and others (OCE).

It’s a great way to see 5 minute pitches and demos. To see what else is going on in Toronto. To connect with interesting people. And to get noticed, find talent, locate funding, or just be social.

Looking for talent, a new job, check out:

• http://jobs.davidcrow.ca/
• http://jobs.startupnorth.ca/
• http://meshjobs.com/

I missed tonight’s DemoCampUofT sponsored by the cool kids at Web Startup Society. They had a kickass keynote speaker, my friend and startup lawyer, Rob Hyndman.

1. Sidra Mahmood, “Typography and Design” for WebDevelopers
2. James Cash, Building a Social Writing Site in Rails
3. Alexander Synaptic, Online Music Portal
4. James An, Social Network for LGBT
5. Rafal Dittwald, Skule online voting app
6. Kirk Williams, Facebook App: Garrison
7. Andrew Trusty, Language Learning in Browser – firefox extension
8. Danial Jameel, Location Based Mobile Startup

Love this team for pulling together a great event.

Random rantings of a grouchy old man: I wish I could take all students out and tell them job titles in a student organization are pretty much irrelevant. Vice president, technical director, consultant. Yes they are industry titles, but they only demonstrate that you are worth of buzzword bingo. My recommendation, stop with the bullshit titles, start with 140 characters describing what you did.

Keep up the great work at UofT. Details about DemoCamp Toronto 26 in the next day or so.

What is your preferred order for DemoCamp?

Donation Matching

We have raised $2930 ($2330 + $600), that Gurbaksh has generously agreed to match. There are 2 options for making a donation.

1. Make a donation directly to MSF and publish your receipt tagging #democamphaiti (it’s also really helpful if you send me the link, but this is the easiest option)
2. donation matching closed

Demos (in no particular order)

• Gurbaksh Chahal, gWallet
• Albert Lai, Kontagent
• Oz Solomon, Social Gaming Studios
• Greg Thomson, Tall Tree Games
• Joel Auge, HitGrab
• Mark Zohar, Scenecaster
• Roy Pereira, ShinyAds.com

I also managed to offer Greg Balajewicz, Realm of Empires a spot, thinking that I had invited him after sending email to the also invited Greg Thomson of Tall Tree Games. Realm of Empires team has been fantastic in cutting me some slack on a mistake and will present at the next DemoCamp.

To help support relief efforts in Haiti, 100% of the DemoCamp donations will be going to Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. Gurbaksh has elevated the challenge to DemoCamp attendees. He will personally match the donations from the DemoCamp crowd (at a minimum, we’ve been talking about him donating a multiple of the DemoCamp number).

Just to make sure there are the appropriate checks and balances, I will publish the donation receipt on Jan 27, 2010 on DemoCamp.com. This is not a cash grab, I am happy to make as much information available to make sure that everyone understands all moneys will be donated. Please feel free to contact me directly if you have concerns at david at davidcrow dot ca or using my contact page.

• Register to attend DemoCamp
• Apply to present at DemoCamp (make sure you also register to attend)

It’s the 25th DemoCamp special edition in Toronto. We’ve been very lucky to have Yossi Vardi, Gary Vaynerchuk and now Gurbaksh Chahal join us for DemoCamp. Don’t know who “G” is?  Check out the Request for Help for details.

For the Chahal family, as for many immigrants, education was paramount, but G left high school at sixteen to form Click Agents, an Internet advertising company, which he sold two years later for $40 million. In January 2004, he launched a second company, BlueLithium – the next generation in Internet advertising. The company was focused on data, optimization, and analytics and became a pioneer of behavioral targeting. BlueLithium was named one of the top 100 private companies in America three years in a row by AlwaysOn, and in 2006, it received highest honor as Top Innovator of the Year. (Previous winners included Google, Skype, and Salesforce.com.) On September 4th, 2007, Yahoo! announced that it was acquiring BlueLithium for $300 million in cash.

How do I present?

Preference given to social gaming and virtual world companies (think Facebook, Myspace, Zynga, Playfish, etc.). We will not be excluding other companies, but G will be apart of the selection process and he has indicated this is his personal area of interest for both gWallet and angel investing.

Demos are 5 minutes long. There is an opportunity for a question and answer period after the demo. The recommendation, it’s a very strong recommendation, is that you present functioning software, i.e., no slide ware. The goal is for entrepreneurs, startups, developers to get on stage and show what you’ve been working on. It’s okay to have a couple of slides to explain your market opportunity, the stage of corporate development, identify your competitors, but it’s really key that you show us working software, hardware, network services, etc.

• Apply to present and make sure you separately register to attend.

DemoCamp Toronto 25 Details

DemoCamp Toronto 25 iCal

DemoCamp Toronto 25
When: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:00 PM
Where:
Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University
55 Dundas St West, Room 1067
Toronto, ON Canada

Sponsors

• SIFE Ryerson
  
• Ontario Centre of Excellence
  
• StartupNorth