Entrepreneurship

Back by popular demand, DigiBC is hosting another networking event June 27, 2013. Join the Digital & Tech Community, including founders, executives, students and industry supports – for a Summer BBQ of sharing and connecting offline. Each attendee will receive two complimentary drinks, entertainment and a full BBQ dinner!

QR codes are a funny thing and everyone has a different opinion about them. From my experience, it’s usually quite negative as it seems like its a dying technology and is way past its exciting days of grabbing a cute girls BBM at The Roxy via your nifty “Can I scan your barcode” pickup line (OK maybe that was just me). QR codes however are very much alive and the technology is evolving in other interesting ways. This weeks startup, Muprime, has an interesting approach to QR codes by improving their aesthetics and allowing brands to get much more out of them. 

A Vancouver entrepreneur is representing B.C. in a competition paying tribute to remarkable Canadian entrepreneurs aged 18 to 35. Max Jenke, founder of Endeavor Designs Inc. and Canada’s only snowboard R&D lab, is one of nine entrepreneurs vying for the $100,000 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award.

I started this article with the intention of applying the tried and true blogging framework of five digestible points within your readership (entrepreneurs). I quickly got off track and, probably, too ambitious. Many writers have attempted to encapsulate what it means to travel and missed the mark in a preachy tirade of how to ‘better yourself’. I hope this doesn’t fall into that category but just know that if it does tilt that way it stems from my inability to write about something I only partially understand and not from some misguided sense of importance.

Warmer weather upon us, the sun is shining, love is in the air and Vancouver’s wedding season and planning is now in full bloom. With so much to consider when planning for the big day, from invites, to locations, dress and catering it can become, at times, well, overwhelming to say the least. Enter Vancouver’s Darian Kovacs, the City’s most sought after Wedding Officiant. He’s also about to give away a wedding package on Vancity Buzz – no joke, read more to find out how.

People are starting to get more familiar with crowd-funding and the benefits and opportunities it can provide to a startup. Just ask Vancouverite Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble watches. They raised $10 million last year from their Kickstarter campaign and just this week, they got $15 million of “proper” investment. This weeks feature is also looking towards the public to get their dream idea off the ground with their own Kickstarter campaign. Vancouver startup, Let’s Patch, presents a clever self-watering solution for urban farmers and families.

Love an online deal, but hate being bombarded with daily deal sites like Groupon or Living Social? There’s a new Vancouver e-commerce site, darelle.com, with the cure. It’s not a discount deal or a flash sale website, instead darelle features awesome packages from local businesses that you actually want to buy.

Today I sat down with Shelly Lynn Nellis, the editor-in-chief and founder of Vancouver’s Fresh Magazine, a women’s publication on anti-aging, beauty and lifestyle. As an empowering and team-spirited woman herself, Shelly Lynn’s initial vision for Fresh Magazine during its start in 2010 was to create a publication that would empower and support real women.

Reach Magazine is excited to present THE REACH ENTREPRENEUR EVENT on May 23, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. at Earl’s V-Lounge in Yaletown. The theme TIMELINE will shed light on the path our entrepreneur speakers have taken to become who they are.