Episode 18: BetaKit

Drew and James head straight into events from last week and the upcoming week. This episode's special guest is Jonathon Narvey, a long-time freelancer and the west coast editor at BetaKit. The interview starts at 0:32:12.

Jonathon Narvey has been a freelance writer for over 15 years. Recently, he has taken up the position of the new west coast editor of BetaKit, a news site offering Canadian startup coverage as well as tech innovation in the great white north. As we talk we Jonathon, we cover topics on Vancouver housing, SEO that doesn't suck, tips for new freelance writers, as well as some of the most general feedback on the Canadian tech industry.

Interview Links

• BetaKit


• Jonathon On Betakit


• Jonathon's email


• @jnarvey on Twitter

Upcoming Week (March 21st to March 25th)

Monday, March 21, 2016

• 2016 Canadian Financing Forum Entrepreneur Bootcamp (SFU VentureLabs Harbour Centre 555 W Hastings St #1200) 1PM – 5PM


• Exploring Git (Moose’s Down Under: 830 W. Pender St), 5:30 PM


• Agile Vancouver: eLearning and Agile? Oil and Water or a Perfect Match? (HootSuite Headquarters 5 East 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC), 6:30 PM

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

• Tech Talent Meetup: Grow an All-Star Dev Team (BCTIA Innovation Hub 887 Great Northern Way) 5:00 PM


• Vancouver Pixel Crafters: Capital Raising Fundamentals (Spring Activator, 211 East Georgia Street) 5:30 PM


• Vancouver Clojure: Clojure Hacknight (CodeCore 142 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM


• DevTools Camp (Mobify, 948 Homer Street 3rd Floor) 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

• Rise Open House (1200 1055 West Hastings) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM


• Functional Programming in Scala Reading Group (Hootsuite, 5 East 8th Avenue) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM


• Vancouver Pluralsight: Building Applications with React and Flux (PNI Digital Media Offices 100 - 425 Carrall Street, 1st Floor) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM


• Docker Vancouver (Hootsuite, 5 East 8th Avenue) 6:00 PM


• Van Dev: Architecting for Prebuilt Reuse (UBC Robson Square C550) 6:45 PM to 9:30 PM

Thursday, March 24, 2016

• Intro to Cyber Security for Startups (Launch Academy, 300-128 W. Hastings) 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM tickets: $17.24/each


• Vancouver Spark: Understanding Spark DataFrames and SparkSQL (Simba Technologies, 938 West 8th Ave) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Learn Data Science by Doing Kaggle Competitions (Cardinal Path, 1140 Pender St. West, Suite 840) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• AngularJS Vancouver: Andrew Eisenberg on TypeScript Annotations & Chris Nicola on A2 Migrations (Red Academy, 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM


• Vancouver Drupal: Drupal Meetup Understanding Responsive Design & Planning Content for All Devices (The Network Hub 3rd Floor, 422 Richards Street) 6:30 PM