To give some context for this guide, I thought I’d give a summary of my story, which is really the story behind this guide.
My education is in Computer Engineering at UBC back in the 80’s and 90’s. I then spent most of the next 20 years working at MacDonald Dettwiler (MDA) in Richmond. At MDA I did lots of different things. We built some pretty amazing systems, everything from weather radar systems to a whole satellite mission (RADARSAT-2). For most of my time there I was involved with satellite ground segments which are essentially very large, semi-custom, software systems that cover the whole range from user ordering, to satellite control, to handling huge volumes of satellite imagery data.
About 4 years ago, I made the decision to leave MDA and move into the world of smaller tech businesses. As part of this transition I had to learn about the state of the local tech industry. I had been with a big company for so long that I had lost track of what was going on my my own city. While at MDA, I had worked in satellite earth observation, and in that industry the customers and suppliers aren’t in Vancouver, they’re scattered across the globe.
It was a really interesting process to re-discover the Vancouver Tech community and and learn about the tech start-up scene. One of the ways that I did this was to make a few angel investments in a some local start-ups and angel funds. Getting involved in this kind of investing really forces you look at a lot of companies and learn about different industries and technologies. A great, but time consuming learning experience! I viewed this process as a portion of creating my own real-world MBA (a term I cribbed from Tim Ferriss’s description of angel investing as an MBA alternative).
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I realized that I won’t have the time to make frequent updates to this, so I avoided putting in any info that has a shorter lifespan than maybe a 6 to months. So no events listings, no calendars, no “who’s hiring now”, list of current start-ups, etc.
I’d be really happy if this helps some new graduates, entrepreneurs, investors, etc. get started in the Vancouver Tech Community.
Peter