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Case Studies: There are two sides to every story: Hear what worked and what didn’t from both the Entrepreneur and the Expert.

• Startup Business Strategies
  Learn more about the savvy startup strategies from two expert point of views. How did Daryl Hatton of ConnectionPoint “dance with a giant” and land its partnership with PayPal? Darrell MacMullin from PayPal Canada will join Daryl to tell us! How did Geordie Rose of D-Wave raise almost $100M to build a quantum computer? 
• Marketing Strategies
  Get maximum exposure for your startup. Find out how Xomo delivered the Official Mobile Spectator Guide for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, and leveraged this success to build a company delivering apps for large events worldwide. And how did Steve Wandler, founder of startup yourtechonline.com, position the company for acquisition in the US? 
• Get Fundable
  Startups! Come one come all to hear it straight from the gatekeeper. Rizwan Kheraj with NRC-IRAP will tell it like it is and shed light on the sources of funding available to tech startups in BC. Hear how Optemo showed value for money and made it through the gate. And how did 2010's 'Most Promising Startup' Indicee attract the likes of Yaletown Venture Partners? Mark Cunningham from Indicee will talk about this with Mike Satterfield.

How I Did It: 5 minutes from 5 startups on HOW they beat the odds.

• Partnerships
  • Dan Cordingley, Teradici: 
    Partnerships: Aim high and be persistent. 
  • Jeanette Jackson, Light-Based Technologies:
    The Right Partnerships for your Startup.
  • Jonathan Rhone, Nexterra Systems:
    Partnering with General Electric – a Cleantech Experience
  • Bijan Sanii, UB Video:
    From partnership to acquisition – the UB Video experience.
  • Peter van der Gracht, Wavemakers Inc.:
    When all seems lost – The Wavemakers Story
• Funding
  • Simon Blyth, Spark Integration:
    How to ‘find the money’ and earn investor confidence and respect.
  • Darren Gibbons, ThoughtFarmer:
    Bootstrapped to profitability after one year, and continued growth without outside financing.
  • Angel Pui, Weddingful:
    Wedding guru leverages "accidental business", making weddings AND funding seem easy.
  • Jason Richards, Vineyard Networks:
    Putting the hard close on friends and family investors.
  • Ben Sparrow, Saltworks:
    Cleantech: financing and building value.
• Growth Beyond BC
  • David Helliwell, Pulse Energy: 
    How to start a cleantech company in 2,846 easy steps.
  • Ryan Holmes, Hootsuite:
    Be local everywhere - growing your product globally the HootSuite way.
  • Surinder Kumar, Vecima Networks:
    Talent to compete with the best in the world.
  • Todd Stone, iCompass:
    Stick to the Plan… with Agility.
  • More to come!