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Startup Camp Toronto

November 8, 2006 at 14:46 | Print This Post Print This Post

Many of us involved in early-stage tech here in Toronto have watched the news of Startup Camp with a lot of interest. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had the “Wouldn’t it be great if there were something like that in Toronto …” conversation, or have read blog posts hoping for the same thing.

So a group of us have now decided to just do it. Our ad hoc organizing committee is made up of Austin Hill, uber-entrepreneur, Stuart MacDonald, Expedia.ca founder and one of my mesh partners, the irrepressible David Crow, the troublemaker responsible for a lot of the energy behind TorCamp and DemoCamp, and yours truly.

Just about everything you’d like to know about Startup Camp Toronto is TBD. Spring seems likely. But for now, we’re blurting out our plans to get the ball rolling, and to spark some creative thinking about what Startup Camp should be like. It’s your event, so get involved! A good start would be to mosey over to the wiki and do a brain dump of all your best ideas about sessions, sponsors, venue, volunteers, or anything else that comes to mind - it is a wiki, after all. Oh yeah, and sign up as an attendee while you’re there so we can get a sense of how much interest there is, will you? That will help with venue and date planning.


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24 Responses to “Startup Camp Toronto”


  1. Mark Evans (2 comments.)
    November 8th, 2006 at 16:01

    rob,
    it’s about time we got a start-up camp of our own!

    mark


  2. Jevon (1 comments.)
    November 8th, 2006 at 16:05

    Hey,. wohoo! Let’s get rolling.

    Does it have to wait until the Spring?


  3. Rob Hyndman (309 comments.)
    November 8th, 2006 at 16:11

    Perhaps winter or late winter would have been a better way to put it Jevon. It’s just that by the time Christmas passes it always seems that Spring is pretty much on us!


  4. Tony (8 comments.)
    November 8th, 2006 at 17:37

    … and that way, you could pimp it at Mesh07! :)


  5. Randy Charles Morin (1 comments.)
    November 8th, 2006 at 18:27

    Sounds like fun! I’m in.


  6. Roy Pereira (1 comments.)
    November 8th, 2006 at 19:13

    About time! I’m very interested in assisting in the organization of StartupCamp.


  7. Rob Hyndman (309 comments.)
    November 8th, 2006 at 19:15

    Thanks Roy and Randy - watch this space and the wiki for more news, and don’t forget to put your particulars on the wiki as attendee / volunteer. Cheers and thanks


  8. Sean Wise (1 comments.)
    November 8th, 2006 at 19:47

    Rob,

    This looks like a great start. Count me in!

    Sean


  9. Martin Dufort (1 comments.)
    November 9th, 2006 at 10:46

    Thanks all,

    I’m in. Can’t wait to be part of this.

    Martin


  10. Omar Ismail (1 comments.)
    November 9th, 2006 at 14:06

    This will be great. Count us in.


  11. Rob Hyndman (309 comments.)
    November 9th, 2006 at 14:30

    Thanks Martin and Omar. Great response so far - this will be fun!


  12. Mark Dowds (5 comments.)
    November 9th, 2006 at 19:17

    Rob, I am very excited. I am in for sure. let me know if there is anything we can do to help
    Mark


  13. Dave Coleman (1 comments.)
    November 14th, 2006 at 11:48

    Rob, sounds incredible. I say you keep along the lines of the spring dates, thats when netus.com is set to launch in beta. No self interest at all lol ;)
    DC


  14. James (3 comments.)
    April 2nd, 2007 at 11:00

    Hi Rob: I’m keen to come to Startup Camp but have a question. Are you folks any closer to setting the dates for StartupCamp Canada? For those of use trying to make travel plans the proposed dates, June 11 and 12, have to become the for-real dates.


  15. Rob Hyndman (309 comments.)
    April 2nd, 2007 at 21:55

    Hi James - alas, not yet. Working on it though, and hope to have more news soon. Wish I could be more specific. :)


  16. James (3 comments.)
    May 30th, 2007 at 21:13

    So it looks like Startup Camp, she is *not* on, correct?


  17. Rob Hyndman (309 comments.)
    June 1st, 2007 at 09:41

    Just trying to find the time to do it, James - it will happen.


  18. James (3 comments.)
    June 1st, 2007 at 14:48

    Will it happen on June 11 and 12?


  19. Rob Hyndman (309 comments.)
    June 1st, 2007 at 15:32

    Alas, no. We’re still working on new dates :)