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Live in VeloCIty – Information Session Tuesday Nov. 17
November 17th, 2009 by Virginia McLellan
An information session for anyone interested in living in VeloCity for the Winter 2010 or Spring 2010 terms will be held tonight (November 17th) in the Davis Centre Fishbowl. We will have free pizza for anyone interested in learning more about VeloCity. Join us and learn why students are choosing to live in VeloCity and are leaving with a great experience and the knowledge and connections to start their own company.
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A ‘StartupWeekendVeloCity’ will kick off winter term at VeloCity
November 9th, 2009 by Jesse Rodgers
Next term is going to start off a lot differently than previous terms here at VeloCity. The first two weeks will give students and opportunity to work together coming up with ideas, work towards a build and launch a product (or a part of a product), and pitch it! The plan as it stands:
- Monday the 4th
- Evening social – say hi, introduce ourselves
- Tuesday the 5th – Thursday the 7th
- 8pm Brainstorming each night.
- Friday the 8th at 8am to Sunday the 10th at 8pm
- StartupWeekendVeloCity (more like a Blitzweekend)- Students will break into groups of 3-5 (coders and non-coders) and develop a product that can launch something on the Sunday night. Local entrepreneurs will be on hand to help advise and encourage students, white boards will be everywhere, pizza and caffeine will be provided to fuel it.
- Saturday the 16th at 10am
- VeloCity 101 – our beginning of term conference but this time the teams from the StartupWeekendVeloCity will be pitching their products. We will still have some presentations from Ray Cao, Carol Leaman, Melanie Baker, and more…
We don’t expect teams to continue on with the products if they don’t want too but we do expect all VeloCity students to participate for an intensive weekend of trying to get a product out the door.
More details to follow but I just wanted to get this posted so next term’s students can plan their time accordingly. Really looking forward to this weekend. The folks from PostRank.com and Well.ca have already volunteered to help out along with some other individuals like Larry Borsato!
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Events in November at VeloCity and in Waterloo
November 2nd, 2009 by Jesse Rodgers
We are heading into the final stretch of the term, hope you have had fun so far! Wanted to post a summary of stuff for this month as a number of speakers and events are planned.
In the Great Hall (for residents only):
- Tonight! Mark Elliot at 8pm – Marketing, pitching, value statements, etc.
- Monday November 9th at 5:30pm is Anil Bohle from Miller Thompson will be here to talk about Intellectual Property issues.
- Tuesday November 10th and 24th at 7:30am will be breakfast with an Entrepreneur in residence from Communitech. Last week we had Tim Ellis… not sure who the final two will be but they will have some great experience and stories to share
- Monday November 16th is FailCamp! Come share your failures!
Our big event!
Tuesday December 1st is our final event! The whole day will be dedicated to VeloCity related events. I will follow up with another email but essentially those that are wanting to exhibit their stuff can do so during the day and at night we will host a DemoNight in the residence where everyone is asked to pitch something. More details to come.
Community events
- StartupDrinksWaterloo tomorrow (November 3rd)
- StartupCampWaterloo on November 18th
- KW Design/Development meetup on November 19th
- Ignite Waterloo on November 25th
- DevHouseWaterloo on November 30th
Get out there and have fun!
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More about VeloCity alumnus’ smartwatch
October 28th, 2009 by Virginia McLellan
More great press about VeloCity alumnus, Eric Migicovsky, and his company’s smartwatch inPulse. Read more at The Record.
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VeloCity 101 conference videos online
October 27th, 2009 by Virginia McLellan
At the beginning of each term, VeloCity host a conference to help educate our students about what it takes to create their own company and to get them started on networking with other students and with our community members. Not to mention, we try to inspire our student with the passionate speakers we bring in to get them excited about entrepreneurship. The videos of all 6 of our speakers are now online and can be found on our Media page.
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