to find out what it’s really like to launch a tech startup –
and get advice for your own startup venture – is to get the
goods straight from someone who’s been there themselves.
So here are the top startup secrets I took away from a great
panel sessionat the recentMeshmarketingconferenceheld in
Toronto.Here’sthecastofcharactersfromthepanel“TalesFrom
the Trenches: Stories From Startups,” which was moderated
by Mesh organizers Mark Evans and Stuart MacDonald.
The best way
Andy Yang
heads up Toronto-based accelerator Extreme
Startups.
Heather Payne
founder of Toronto non-profit/social enterprise
startup Ladies Learning Code.
Evgeny Tchebotarev
co-founder and COO of Toronto-based
photo sharing startup 500px, which is growing insanely
fast and trying to give Flickr a run for its money.
Oleg Gustol
co-founder and CEO of the aforementioned
500
px.
Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana
co-founder of Empire
Avenue Inc., an Edmonton startup whose social networking
game is modeled after the stock market.
Aliza Pulver
co-founder and chief buying officer of HomeSav.
com, an online shopping club that’s been likened to
Groupon for home decorating fanatics.