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Do you have the vision, leadership, achievement and commitment to your community to be named BC's Entrepreneur of the Year? If so, you'll be happy to know that BCBusiness and Ernst & Young LLP Pacific Region are searching for BC's top entrepreneur.

If you're a founder or CEO of a technology venture in Vancouver or the Okanagan wanting to improve your chances of building a successful company, you can now participate in the BCIC Mentor Program and benefit from the experience of seasoned technology entrepreneurs.

Are you a founder or CEO of a tech company looking to get to the next level?

Accelerate Okanagan and ACETECH are partnering up to bring ACETECH's Market Validation Program in the Okanagan for the first time in April. The Program is a go-to-market boot camp for tech CEOs and founders with at least an early working version of their product.

The program combines best practice workshops with one-on-one mentoring from experienced technology CEOs to help you understand your business opportunity, find and close customers and get your product to market faster and with less risk. The CEOs will hold you accountable for results, all while providing a sounding board for business ideas.

Prior to joining BCIC, Danny Robinson was co-founder of Bootup Labs, an Internet seed accelerator, which invested and mentored eight new Internet companies in the last two years. Along with his wife, Maura Rodgers, he was co-founder of the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society, a non-profit, community and mentor-driven organization that was formed to inspire entrepreneurship and help Internet startups take their idea from concept to commercialization. He also co-founded Strutta, Peerflex and Spinway.