A group of us TechCrunchers bundled up and headed to the Great White North last week to kick off our three-city Northern Meetup tour with a stop in Toronto, the largest city in Canada.
While we were in town, we visited the MaRS Discovery District, a non-profit entity focused on tech innovation and entrepreneurship.
Tonight, at the 6th Annual Crunchies Awards, the Mars Curiosity won for Best Technology Achievement. Because, you know, science is awesome.
Presented by former Square COO Keith Rabois and VentureBeat’s Meghan Kelly, NASA “Mohawk Guy” Bobak Ferdowsi accepted the award on behalf of the whole Mars Curiosity team.
Monday night was our TechCrunch meetup in Toronto and we had a blast. The city’s entrepreneurs and tech community showed up in full force for a night of networking and revelry, hosted at Toronto local gem the Steamwhistle Brewery.
History has shown us again and again that great things can be born out of tough times. It happened in the early 2000s, when companies such as Amazon, eBay, and Google rose to great heights out of the ashes of the dot-com bust.
If you were a fan of the teen detective TV show Veronica Mars, this was an exciting morning — creator Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance a Veronica Mars movie. (I’m a fan, and I’ve backed the project.)
But even if you didn’t watch the show, the campaign should be cause for some excitement.
I love foursquare, I check in from pretty much everywhere I go. However, I would say that the Curiosity Rover on Mars is seeing cooler scenery than I ever have.
If you’re going to the North Country Fair where the wind hits heavy on Lake Michigan, we want you to attend one of our TC Northern meetups to be held in Toronto on November 5, Detroit on November 7, and Chicago on November 9. That’s right: we’re bringing the magic of our Southeast Meetups to Hogtown, Motor City, and the City in a Garden and we’d love to see you there.
Hello, Great White North! We are officially out of tickets for the Northern Meet-ups, our flights and hotels are booked, and we’re raring to meet all of you in Toronto, Detroit, and Chicago.
Welcome back to Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the offices of the industry’s hot companies to see what it’s really like inside the belly of the tech innovation beast (and check out the free food and fun perks that often help power it.)
In this episode, we visited the downtown San Francisco headquarters of Airbnb, where we received a tour from co-founder and CTO
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