Amidst a global pandemic, Gunkii was born. Co-founded by Vancouver entrepreneurs Nicole and Jayesh Parmar, Gunkii is the “world’s sexiest tongue scraper”. Most people don’t realize every night when they go to bed a layer of whitish yellowish gunk builds upon their tongue. It’s the combination of fungi, dead skin cells, bacteria, toxins and remnants […]
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From Picatic To Product Hunt, Former Co-Workers Launch Gaze
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 […]
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 […]