Earlier this year San Francisco’s Eventbrite shuttered its Vancouver office as the crisis around COVID-19 pandemic grew. Events large and small were being forced to cancel and it became very evident that the event management industry would be among that hardest hit. The news hit Vancouver’s Jayesh Parmar hard. He had sold his event ticketing […]
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Leading From Beginning to End, Jay Parmar Wraps Up Eventbrite in Vancouver
In September of 2012 I wrote about an event ticketing startup called Picatic for the first time on Techvibes. The company had landed itself with Extreme Startups in Toronto and was launching a crowdfunding platform called EventTilt. Crowdsourcing was all the rage at the time and their new platform was guaranteeing successful events by completely […]
Explore Your Career Options With Amazon And More
Exploring your career options in Vancouver? We’ve got the event for you! Produced in partnership with Techcouver, the Tech Talent Vancouver Job Fair is a unique recruiting event that connects Vancouver’s fastest growing companies with the top tech talent in the city. Throughout the evening, hiring company execs pitch a crowd of potential employees on […]
Local Acquisition Sees Eventbrite Blossom in Vancouver
You don’t have to be a concert junkie or hustling networker to have heard of Eventbrite—the global ticketing and event technology platform provides creators of events with tools and resources to plan, promote, and produce live experiences. Their app is probably already on your phone from a past event. In the summer of 2018, the San […]