{"id":3365,"date":"2009-11-29T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2009-11-29T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T22:15:53","slug":"new-media-bc-announces-top-venture-pitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/2009\/11\/29\/new-media-bc-announces-top-venture-pitches\/","title":{"rendered":"New Media BC announces top Venture Pitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of our Venture Forum week, I thought I would post this interesting story for you all:<\/p>\n<p>New Media BC is pleased to announce the top 20 companies selected from 37 digital media companies that attended the Fusion \u201909 Entrepreneur Boot Camp held at the BC 2010 Showcase Centre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmediabc.com\/news.php?news=top_20_companies_selected_from_fusion_forum_boot_camp\">New Media BC Fusion Forum Top 20 companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notably,  A Vancouver company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecobuddies.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ecobuddies.com\/<\/a> has made the top 20 list for educational gaming sites.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nSee this story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.canada.com\/northshorenews\/story.html?id=1be06868-c824-460f-8599-45daf1abd3f9\">North Shore News<\/a>:  <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Game showing them the way:<br \/>\nEcoBuddies encouraging kids to take action<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;EcoBuddies has also been recognized by their peers, having been awarded best in show at New Media B.C.&#8217;s Fusion Venture Forum for Digital Media, held two weeks ago in Vancouver. They were among the entrepreneurs who pitched their companies to investors.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a really great networking tool, for both investors and for entrepreneurs,&#8221; says Ferma.<br \/>\nThe title came with $1,000 and a three-month placement at the Plug and Play Tech Centre accelerator in Sunnyvale, Calif.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of our Venture Forum week, I thought I would post this interesting story for you all: New Media BC is pleased to announce the top 20 companies selected from 37 digital media companies that attended the Fusion \u201909 Entrepreneur Boot Camp held at the BC 2010 Showcase Centre. New Media BC Fusion Forum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,182,146],"tags":[6658,6659,1204],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-discussions","category-mod09-serious-game-environments","category-module-discussions","tag-fusion-forum","tag-new-media-bc","tag-venture-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}