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Funding

Bootstrapped and Bottlenecked. Find the money! Learn the smart funding tactics that helped these startups get to where they are today.

  • 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.
  • Malcolm Man, Saltworks:
    Financing and building value. How this cleantech company did it!
  • 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.

Speakers

  • Angel Pui
    CEO
    Weddingful

    Vancouver wedding guru Angel Pui has eliminated many of the headaches associated with wedding planning by creating Weddingful, a free online wedding marketplace that offers relevant search criteria

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  • Darren Gibbons
    President & CEO
    ThoughtFarmer

    Darren Gibbons is the President of ThoughtFarmer, a social intranet software product developed by OpenRoad Communications Ltd.

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  • Jason Richards
    President & CEO
    Vineyard Networks

    Jason Richards is the founder and CEO at Vineyard Networks, one of BC’s fastest growing technology companies.

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  • Malcolm Man
    VP of Business Development
    Saltworks Technologies Inc.

    Malcolm is an experienced clean technology executive. He was a co-founder of Tekion, an alternative energy company, where he developed, negotiated, and managed partnerships with Motorola, BASF, US DOE, and US Army. He also Chaired the US Fuel Cell Council’s Portable Power Group and led a team that advanced airline regulatory changes to assist fuel cell dispatch.

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  • Simon Blyth
    VP Operations & Business Development
    Spark Integration

    Simon has 20 years experience in IT spanning sales, marketing, consulting and operations.

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