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Raincity and Bryght in the Thunderbird UBC School Journal

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:04:21 -0800

A few weeks ago while we hosted the first joint drupal training session between Bryght and Raincity, Anna Olejarczyk interviewed Krug and I for her upcoming article on Web 2.0 start-ups in Vancouver.

The article came out last week, here's a portion of it.

Robert Scales, CEO and founder of Raincity Studios, says that people who are in the Web 2.0 industry are more like “private investors.�?

There’s not much public investment going on, but in this goldrush stage, there are a number of young entrepreneurs being picked up for their product. Yahoo acquiring Flickr, Google buying YouTube and News Corp. obtaining MySpace – these are all large companies that are getting the missing pieces of the puzzle that will make them leading edge in this new technology frenzy says Scales.

Heading To China Once More

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:32:19 -0700

September China Program Finalized

The September China trip is only a few weeks away. All of the details have been finalized and hotels and plane tickets have been booked. The crew will be making stops in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, meeting with members of the business community and political figures. There is still time to jump on board if you have not already done so and join the team of business leaders who are making the trek. This is an opportunity of a lifetime to be a part of such a well orchestrated and strategic event. To find out more about upcoming Business Visit Programs in Beijing please, click here

Click here to Register for the September Program.

China Access 2008 is a strategic international business marketing and partnering initiative that has been consciously structured to help China better realize the unique economic development potential arising from Beijing’s hosting and staging of the 2008 Olympic Games.

The venture was publicly launched in Beijing by Vice Mayor Lu Hao in December 2004.

China Access 2008 will utilise the years leading up to the staging of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to:

NewsForge on Barcamp Vancouver and my Presentation

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:34:24 -0700

NewsForge: More On BarCamp

Bruce Byflield of NewsForge joined our group at BarCampVancouver last week-end. As it turns out, he had a pretty swell time: met some good people, was thoroughly impressed with the organization, learned a lot, was intellectually stimulated, and seemed to have had some fun along the way.

You can read his article in its' entirety online here. In it, Bruce highlights some of his positive experiences, while suggesting on how the Camp might improve as well.

Below is an small excerpt from his article after speaking with me after my session on Open Source Business.

"Open Source Business" by Robert Scales, the president and CEO of Raincity Studios. Scales explained his conviction that an open source business model was about more than working with technologies like Drupal and Ruby. Instead, Scales has tried to build his business as a cooperative, offering generous benefits and bonuses and encouraging employees to attend conferences. In addition, he has tried to build reciprocal relations with companies in the same line of business so that they can recommend each other when one is unavailable to work with a potential customer. Last year, he even went to the extent of making the company's financial position public , even though Raincity is not publicly traded. While he could not detail individual employees' salaries or the size of contracts due to Canada's privacy laws, he did give overall figures for both. "I'm really open," he says, sporting a Mohawk and all black clothes... However, it seemed obvious that, for all the humour, for Scales, his business model was not so much a buzz word as a way of life.

Raincity's Partner in Crime Departs to Seek New Opportunities

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:03:01 -0800

Raincity checking in from Torino, Italy where we participated in a symposium on Web 2.0 and the Olympics in collaboration with New Media BC.

We’ve been very busy over the past week working on various events, meeting local new media companies and building our network.

Back in Canada, the Raincity team is busy; we have many cool projects going live this coming month and the production team is working hard to create and develop various projects for our clients. We’re also helping Bryght develop their next product, Backstage, due to beta launch at SXSW next month.