Episode 20: VanHack

The first show of April is a fun one. Drew and James chat a little about April Fools, then get right into the previous week. They talk about using statistics for measuring team output, as well as the relationship between interview and performance later on. Drew mentions going to the Full Indie meetup and meeting the creator of Bunker Punks. The guest this week is Ilya Brotzky. The interview starts at 0:28:45. Ilya Brotzky is the Co-Founder & CEO of VanHack as well as a Facilitator & Mentor at Spring Activator. He spent the beginning of his career working on startups in Brazil, as well as contributing to the collection of data for the government. VanHack empowers top international tech talent to break into the Canadian startup community, with a strong focus on Brazil. Spring has helped over 115 entrepreneurs from all over the world get the skills, knowledge and network they need to create a sustainable business they have a passion for. At Spring, Ilya mentors the cohort in the 4 week immersion program. Interview Links VanHack Spring.is Ilya Brotzky Twitter and on Spring.is VanHackathon Article: At creating new businesses, immigrants outpace Canadian-born people, StatsCan finds Upcoming Week (April 4th to April 11th) Monday, April 4th, 2016 Canadian Club Vancouver: Lunch with Bernard Lord QC, CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (837 West Hastings St) 11:45 AM to 2:00 PM Git Help! (Moose’s Down Under, 830 W. Pender St) 5:00 PM Public Cloud Users Group: WHEN DISASTER STRIKES! (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings) 6 PM Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 Polyglot Vancouver Social (St Regis 608 Dunsmuir St) 6:00 PM Style & Class: Coding: Mentorship and Data (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings) 6:30 PM Vancouver Clojure (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings) 6:00 PM Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 Vancouver Linux Desktop (Decentral, 436 W Pender St) 4:30 to 6:30 PM yvrTesting: Implementing BDD from the Ground Up! (Sophos Head Office 580 Granville) 5:30 PM Vancouver Pluralsight: Building Applications with React and Flux (PNI Digital Media Offices 100 - 425 Carrall Street, 1st Floor) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Vancouver Scala (Hootsuite, 5 East 8th Ave) 5:30 PM Vancouver Android Developers Hacknight (Mobify, 3rd Floor, 948 Homer St) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Thursday, April 7th, 2016 Learn Data Science: Kaggle Competitions (Cardinal Path 1140 Pender St. West, Suite 840) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM CodeCore Demo Day (CodeCore 142 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM Friday, April 8th, 2016 Wishpond Open House (Wishpond 1500 West Georgia, Office #1000) 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect