bmann

You guys are getting confused with the "rent" word. We paid Statuslys out of pocket expenses (i.e. their apartment and food) because they had no money.

Too bad the website is terrible, and that lame people from Vancouver keep submitting bad stories.

As Om Malik said http://gigaom.com/2009/09/23/dopplr-commits-hara-kiri-sells-... -- this kind of feels like death for Dopplr. Can we name a great Nokia web service or software?

There aren't a lot of hardware startups in Vancouver. I would argue that there are many less hardware startups in general.

TechShop has actually come up to Vancouver and given a presentation to the VanTec angels. Working on expanding an existing business might be a lot easier.

The Bootup Entrepreneurial Society (http://bootup.ca) of which I am on the board, would likely be interested in supporting this. If your dad wants to buy us a building, we'll run it :P