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.
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Can I come even though we’re not into mobile yet?
of course but you should probably have a mobile device first
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