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I second this, Vancouver is really sorry and we hope you will come back and visit.
by mikeyur 17y ago
I second this, Vancouver is really sorry and we hope you will come back and visit.
- danudey 17y agoThirded. It's awful that these two had to go through this, but on top of the awful experience, it happened as a result of moving to what I believe is the most beautiful city in the world. Being so excited for something and having it turn into an unmitigated disaster is depressing. Believe me when I say the whole tech community here feels awful about this. Don't let it sour you on our city!
- fnid2 17y agoVancouver is not sorry. There are plenty in Vancouver who predicted something like this would happen as a result of doing business with Bootup Labs. If anything, Vancouver has benefited from this because it is now more likely that Bootup Labs will be booted out of Vancouver. Bootup labs has been hurting the startup community in Vancouver for quite some time and it will help the environment there if this kind of sour leadership is forced out of town.
- mikeyur 17y agoFor one, it was partially a joke. Canadians apologize too much and for anything. Let me be clear, I'm not sorry this happened to Bootup. I'm sorry because I don't want anyone to think bad of our city because of an event like this. Bootup can close down tomorrow for all I care. I take it personally when a fellow entrepreneur (and HN user) gets screwed over, and especially when it happened in my city.
- apphacker 17y agoWhat I learned from this blog post is that I need to visit Vancouver someday.
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- potatolicious 17y agoI grew up there, and please do, because after living in a bunch of other cities nothing quite measures up. You have no idea how depressing it is to live a stone's throw away in Seattle - it's like wallowing in a pit of mud right outside the gates to Eden. No offense to Seattleites, but your city blows in comparison.