Not the FDR but an acronym for a key piece of ParkVu Technology.
Cryptic Hints of What’s To Come
We’re racing towards a new release of ParkVu Technology. As it typically happens with crazy and intense projects, particular words become meaningful along the way. It could be the lack of sleep, it could be the deficient diet, either way it’s entertaining. To me at least.
So here’s the first of the adventure in the transmundane — Fetch.
Rejuvenating a 10 Year Old Idea
10 years ago, Gary Will and I facilitated a little get together called Ground Zero (this was pre-9/11). Basically the idea was ripped off from Round Zero in the valley: get pre-VC backed companies together to hang out, commiserate and support one another.
At the time the driver was a chasm between the “old guard”: Descartes, RIM, OpenText, Sybase and the new startups that were forming at the time. There was no agenda, a varied mix of attendees and beer. We offered to advice, connected to resources that help and supported and celebrated one another. We also mercilessly sponged free advice from any lawyer or accountant that happened to pass by accidentally.
For the past year that we’ve been working on ParkVu, I’ve often been reminded of the same dynamic between the startups and the old guard. Things are friendlier now then they used to be and RIM has been very approachable but ah, obviously we don’t have the same issues.
We’ve talking about getting together all the mobile startups, in Waterloo for beverages. Nothing formal, just hang out, get to know each other, etc… This isn’t yet another *-Camp, those all serve a valuable yet different purpose. This is just for early stage mobile companies to start to form a community.
We (ParkVu) will pull something together in the next couple of weeks, and I’ll post details here. Leave a comment if you’re interested in attending.
Looking for Blackberry Devs
If you know your way around the Blackberry JDE and looking to do some for hire work. Shoot me an email at jeff at parkvu dot com (more…)
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