Over the past year, we rebuilt Founders Day from the ground up, added a bunch of new features and unleashed version 3.0 to the world. How did it go?

A lot of the magic that happens in Startupland™ takes place at the intersection of humility and hubris.

Announcing Game On, a program designed to accelerate Canadian founders and help them build meaningful connections to Silicon Valley.

Why do 99% of startup accelerators fail to live up to their expectations?

What does the announcement of a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas mean for startups in the U.S. and tech ecosystems around the world?

Let’s look at the evolution of Vancouver’s startup ecosystem through the lens of BC Founders Day..

If you raise Silicon Valley funding or are generating revenue primarily from US customers, there is fundamentally no reason why you can’t pay employees Silicon Valley salaries.

Are Silicon Valley VCs really more willing to invest in ideas than VCs in other ecosystems?

To many people, the idea of planning an event is overwhelming, so I’m going to show you how to do it. Here’s how you can be an instigator for your community.

If you successfully fundraise from Silicon Valley VCs, be careful about how you tell the story. You could end up accidentally burning bridges.

Instead of blaming American VCs for “taking” their high-potential startups, ecosystems should stop and look in the proverbial mirror.

This weekend, the U.S. shattered the trust of an entire nation. And Canadians are pissed.

Why does it seem harder to find communities of technical founders in some ecosystems than in others?

If you’ve never been to San Francisco before, where do you start?

Here are 10 resources for UK founders landing in San Francisco for the first time.

If you’ve never been to San Francisco before, where do you start?

Here are 10 resources for Canadian founders landing in San Francisco for the first time.

One of the biggest cultural differences between the US and other countries is the degree to which Americans value and celebrate risk-taking.

Ecosystems around the world have been evolving, adapting and reconfiguring themselves post-Covid.

My name is Chris. And I’m an instigator. Here's the story of Vancouver Founders Day.

The stereotype that local investors don’t lead rounds but "foreign investors" do exists all over the world. But is it true?

When I graduated from Stanford more than 20 years ago, nobody aspired to "be a VC".