That seems a little rude. I'm with you that $75 tickets are steep, and hacker unfriendly, but it seems like 2 competing hackathons are going to spread our city's finite dev talent really thin. I can't see how this leads to a better experience for SW or your event.
Wouldn't it be better to have spread these events out? If people think SW is too expensive, they'll wait. If they want to contribute to both, shouldn't they have the option?
Hmm... definitely agree with nick. The hacker community in Vancouver is already so small that there's no need to do both on the same weekend.
I also agree $75 is quite steep, so I've talked to the SW folks about working together somehow & getting a better discount for scrappy entrepreneurs & hackers (while preserving the high $75 for business & "marketing" folk who tend to hijack hacker events here in Vancouver). They're all for it!
So far, we got a 20% discount off for Startup Digest readers (code: startupdigest), but I'm sure we can get even more.
Comments
OK. So, I just put together that this event is competing head-to-head with Startup Weekend. http://vancouver.startupweekend.org
That seems a little rude. I'm with you that $75 tickets are steep, and hacker unfriendly, but it seems like 2 competing hackathons are going to spread our city's finite dev talent really thin. I can't see how this leads to a better experience for SW or your event.
Wouldn't it be better to have spread these events out? If people think SW is too expensive, they'll wait. If they want to contribute to both, shouldn't they have the option?
Hmm... definitely agree with nick. The hacker community in Vancouver is already so small that there's no need to do both on the same weekend.
I also agree $75 is quite steep, so I've talked to the SW folks about working together somehow & getting a better discount for scrappy entrepreneurs & hackers (while preserving the high $75 for business & "marketing" folk who tend to hijack hacker events here in Vancouver). They're all for it!
So far, we got a 20% discount off for Startup Digest readers (code: startupdigest), but I'm sure we can get even more.
agree, hard to choose where to go to :(