Last Drinks of the Summer, Canadian TechStars grads in Montreal (9)
TechStars, the Boulder Colorado based startup program similar to Y-Combinator recently graduated another 10 companies. The event was attended by approximately 350 people, including tech bloggers such as Robert Scoble and investors from a number of “web 2.0” VC firms including First Round Capital, Foundry Group and Union Square Ventures (Fred Wilson) and our very own Montreal Start Up.
The team behind one of these graduating companies is Vanilla. Vanilla provides open source forum software that is used to power hundreds of thousands of sites around the web. Vanilla already had 300,000+ Installations, 450+ Plugins and were doing 200+ downloads every day – all of this before even attending TechStars.
So why did they decide to join the TechStars program? Simply because they wanted to turn there product into a business !
The team behind Vanilla, are Canadian entrepreneurs Mark O’Sullivan and Todd Burry. The guys will be in Montreal this Thursday and they have agreed to tell us a little about their experience at TechStars: what they’ve learned about turning a product into a business, how to approach investors and some insight into the value of belonging to the TechStars alumni community.
We are going to take this opportunity to have a “Last drinks of Summer” for the Montreal tech community. The event is open to anyone and is going to be held this Thursday, September 3rd at Helm from 5pm-8pm.
Alongside main actors of the Montreal tech community such as MontrealStartup, the event is being organized in conjunction with Station-C, so it will be also be a great opportunity for anyone looking to meet up with freelance designers and developers.
Photo credit: Demo Day, techstars, by Andrew Hyde
Note: you can use techentreprise to see who is also coming up.
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@krusk thursday evening we’ve got a meetup http://bit.ly/3bia7Z would be great to have you there
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