Vancouver Tech Podcast

Episode 73: Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring Activator Special Guest Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring Activator Special guest Keith Ippel, Co-founder and CEO of Spring Activator speaks with host Drew Ogryzek about the interdisciplinary, inter-school hackathon Startup Hacks; a non-coding hackathon competition where business and tech oriented attendees team up and collaborate together on a mobile app idea that makes a social impact. Then jump into some discussions around Spring Activator. Spring is a startup school for entrepreneurs who want to change the world, helping people go from an idea on a napkin to about a million dollars a year in revenue. The reason they call themselves a startup school is because they have recognized that the startup world has been attracting people from the mainstream It's no longer about people with just tech backgrounds, but people with diverse range of backgrounds with some amazing ideas and they're trying to catalyze them. Incubation and acceleration is at the code of what Spring does. He