DCT21 and StartUp Drinks - shaking hands and trading ideas

It's been a busy week! DemoCamp Toronto #21 on Wednesday was a great success. At first it didn't seem right to be in a lecture hall instead of a dingy pub (the usual venue), but this was the first democamp where I could actually hear all of the presentations and read what was on the screen. Pretty good things to be able to do at a demo, it turns out! The lack of beer was more than made up for later in the evening when we decended on the nearby unsuspecting Fion McCools.

Thursday night was StartUp Drinks at Pogue Mahone on College and Bay. We had a chance to talk to all sorts of interesting people in the Toronto startup community. We were trying to make as many connections in hopes that someone could help us advance WeGoWeGo further. We're looking for a UI designer/front-end coder/usability expert and a rails dev or two to join our team. We're also looking for funding as we've bootstrapped ourselves to this point. There are still some important features that we'd like to add to our site as soon as possible to make it the powerful offering that we've envisioned.

One step at a time, as they say.

Official WeGoWeGo T-shirts

Who says you can't have your own swag? Look at us, we are just starting and we have our own T-shirts and dancing shoes!

That's right, anyone can now be a proud owner of an official WeGoWeGo T-shirt. Check it out below.
What's really cool, is that you can customize each shirt to make it your own...

BTW, we have little choice in terms of the cost and would love to hand them out for FREE, but not just yet.

We can however give out a couple.

For the first two people who comment on this post, will get a T-Shirt each! Be quick!

DemoCamp Toronto 21

Now that our site is fully launched, we're ready to present WeGoWeGo at

DemoCamp Tororonto 21 @ The Velma Rogers Theatre
July 28, 2009 - 6:00pm-9:00pm
333 Bloor St E., Toronto, ON

Our purpose is to help spread the word that our site is live and to have a good time networking with other like-minded techie/entrepreneur/business types. We're hoping to gather some helpful feedback and suggestions for future feature development, design optimization and growth strategies.

We're also hoping to find designers and developers who share our passion for urban adventure and would like to join our team.

DemoCamp Guelph July 15 - We're back!

It's been exactly a year since our last visit to Guelph DemoCamp. We've learned a lot since then and we revamped WeGoWeGo.com user experience to be much more intuitive and fun.

We are happy to come back to Guelph DemoCamp 10 (Info @bit.ly/dcg10 ) to give an update on our progress.

See you then!

How big things start

I love this video for many reasons but one thing stands out: at 2:52 you can hear someone saying "How did he do that? How did he do that?"

It usually starts off slowly. One or two people with an idea they believe in. Eventually another person catches on to what they're doing. Then another and another.

The thing is, he didn't do it. He started it, sure, but big things happen because of each person that jumps in and makes it easier for that next person to join. At some point it just feels good to be part of something cool, and even better if you helped make it happen. And everyone dancing helped make it happen!



It's scary to start something, but like the song in the video says, "I got to be un-stoppable." If you believe in what you're doing, or are just having too much fun to care, amazing things can happen.

In WeGoWeGo.com, we've built a platform that you can use to start your own big things. Add the events that you believe in to WeGoWeGo. And then tag them up with the descriptions in your own words. Share the event page, link to it, send the word out. Others whom you don't even know will find the tags you've added in our search engine. Then soon people will be asking, "How did you do it?"

There are no review committees, or editorial boards, or really any rules other than 'tell it like it is' and 'you are your own expert in matters of taste'.