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• KINDLE MATCHBOOK ICON SERIAL

If you don’t read the book, you won’t talk about how great it was to your friends. How many books on your bookshelf have you not read? Probably quite a few… from a book publisher’s perspective there are two problems, first they have to get you to buy their book, then they need you to read it. You won’t learn everything in an accelerator, but even if you get to learn one thing not the hard way by being in an accelerator, it’s worth it.Ĥ. What core problem is your company specifically solving and/or what’s the main value you provide? I didn’t do the start-up accelerator thing with Aquatic Informatics, but even as a second time entrepreneur I can’t say enough good things about getting involved with GrowLab. BitLit works for books regardless of where you bought them - so keep going to your local indie bookstore and buying beautiful hardback paper that’ll look great on your shelf, because with BitLit you get the eBook and the hardcopy.ģ. How has Vancouver’s rising startup community played a role in the development of BitLit?īitLit is part of GrowLab’s spring 2014 cohort. It’s squarely a competitor, but only works for print books you buy on and only works for Kindle.

Do you have any competitors in the space? What makes you unique and hard to take down?Ībout 10 months after starting BitLit, Amazon launched a program called Kindle Matchbook. He wished he had the eBook right there and then so he could trump me… that was the moment when I realized that you should be able to have an eBook version of your print book collection.Ģ. The idea for BitLit actually came from an argument with a friend… we were having dinner at a restaurant and he said he had a book at home that would prove I was wrong. I helped grow Aquatic Informatics to over 60 employees with customers in 25 countries, before getting the idea for BitLit and starting all over again. I co-founded my first company (Aquatic Informatics) during my last term of Engineering Physics at UBC.

KINDLE MATCHBOOK ICON SERIAL

I guess you could say I’m a serial entrepreneur because I’ve never had a real job. Who are you? Tell us about your business and what inspired you to create it. The solution is BitLit, an app that helps you get an Ebook of a print book you own.ġ. If only I could put them in my pocket, then i’d surely start to incorporate them back into my life.

How many piles of books on your bookshelf do you wish you could rescue and actually start to read? There are probably at least a dozen on my end that simply don’t make the cut.