Recent Blog Posts - Startup Edmonton

Preflight - Customer Validation
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Preflight - Customer Validation
Preflight helps founders, developers, and designers experiment and validate a scalable product/startup idea. We take a hands-on approach to helping you make that first real commitment to building a high growth tech startup. Preflight - Customer Validation, a 5 week workshop exploring customer dis...
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Andrew-David Jahchan: Committed To Growing Edmonton's Game Development Community
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Andrew-David Jahchan: Committed To Growing Edmonton's Game Development Community
MADSOFT Games was featured as one of the Launch Party 5 companies at Edmonton Startup Week and is about to launch MADJAM 2015 - a new series of community events for game developers.  Andrew-David Jahchan, Director and Lead Developer for MADSOFT Games, is an active member of the Startup Edmonton c...
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Why Tech Startups Should Look At Go
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Why Tech Startups Should Look At Go
This week we welcome a guest post from William Kennedy of GoingGo.net, a co-author of Go in Action. The Edmonton Go User Group is one of the most active meetup groups at Startup Edmonton, meeting monthly to collaborate, discuss and learn Go.  On January 24, 2015, they welcome William Kennedy for...
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Company Culture
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Company Culture
Startup Edmonton recently announced two job postings to assist with the delivery of Preflight programs. We sat down with Tiffany Linke-Boyko, COO, to chat about company culture and how it can impact your success & job satisfaction.  Q: What is your definition of company culture?  A: Company ...
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Battling the algorithm
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Battling the algorithm
After reading Wired’s recent article “Facebook’s Latest Update Shows It Wants to Beat Twitter at News”, we asked James A. Neufeld, Founder of SAM, to share some thoughts on how social media platforms influence the type of news we see and the context these stories develop i...
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Creative Inspiration
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Stephanie Enders, Project Manager - Bottom Line Productions, helps share the Startup Edmonton story and the stories of our members with the larger community. Stephanie shares some of her thoughts on the intersection between arts and entrepreneurship.  Some of my favourite moments spent with found...
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Entrepreneurship 101
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Entrepreneurship 101
Warren Johnston, Community Manager, is one of the first faces you’ll see at Startup Edmonton. In addition to his work with us, Warren is a full-time student at the University of Alberta. This semester Warren is taking the inaugural session of Entrepreneurship 101, a new approach to teaching the e...
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The Next Five Years
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The Next Five Years: "Our first ever Edmonton Startup Week has come and gone - and it was a blast. In the lead up to Startup Week, I reflected on how our startup community has evolved and grown over the last five years. In that post, I talked about the need for a long term view for the continued...
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Member Profile: James A. Neufeld
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Member Profile: James A. Neufeld
Photo Credit: (Left) Adam Ostrow, Mashable (Right) James A. Neufeld, SAM. Photo Courtesy: Native Advertising Summit 2014  Q: What are you building at Startup Edmonton?  We’re building a company called SAM. We’re on a mission to build the best tools to search, curate and tell stories with social m...
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Reflections: Building Startup Communities - #yegsw14
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Reflections: Building Startup Communities - #yegsw14
When Tiffany, Ken and Cam found an incredibly welcoming network of makers, builders, and champions at Boulder Startup Week 2014.  Building Startup Communities featuredTim O’Shea and Rich Maloy, gurus of community building who were involved in the original Startup Week that took place in Boulder, ...
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Reflections: Ladies That Launch - #yegsw14
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Reflections: Ladies That Launch - #yegsw14
Startup Week is a celebration of our city’s growing startup community. It’s a time to celebrate success but also find renewed passion about building and scaling companies in Edmonton.  Ladies That Launch was a chance to hear from Maura Rodgers (VP, Marketing, Perch) and Joanne Fedeyko...
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The Evolution of a Startup Community
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The Evolution of a Startup Community: Ken Bautista, Startup Edmonton Co-Founder and CEO, looks back on the last five years working to ignite Edmonton’s startup community and the story of Startup Edmonton.  Celebrate our growing startup community at Edmonton Startup Week - October 20 - 24, 2014.
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Book Recommendation Delivering Happiness
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Book Recommendation Delivering Happiness
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose By Tony Hsieh CEO, Zappos.com, Inc.  "I’d realized that whether in poker, in business, or in life, it was easy to get caught up and engrossed in what I was currently doing, and that made it easy to forget that I always had the o...
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Building Community
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Building Community
Tiffany, Cam and Ken had an amazing experience at Boulder Startup Week. Conversations focused on the benefits of a strong startup community and the responsibility of founders and community boosters to foster development in meaningful ways.  Edmonton Startup Week, October 20 – 24, features keynote...
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Member Profile: Lauren Briske
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Member Profile: Lauren Briske
Today is the first post in our new monthly member profile series. Kicking things off is Lauren Briske - Community Manager, Startup Edmonton. Q: What are you building at Startup Edmonton? Essentially, I am looking to create meaningful connections in the startup community to enable awesome stuff ...
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