Blipp Business Start Up

to find out what it’s really like to launch a tech startup – and get advice for your own startup venture – is to get the goods straight from someone who’s been there themselves. So here are the top startup secrets I took away from a great panel sessionat the recentMeshmarketingconferenceheld in Toronto.Here’sthecastofcharactersfromthepanel“TalesFrom the Trenches: Stories From Startups,” which was moderated by Mesh organizers Mark Evans and Stuart MacDonald. The best way Andy Yang heads up Toronto-based accelerator Extreme Startups. Heather Payne founder of Toronto non-profit/social enterprise startup Ladies Learning Code. Evgeny Tchebotarev co-founder and COO of Toronto-based photo sharing startup 500px, which is growing insanely fast and trying to give Flickr a run for its money. Oleg Gustol co-founder and CEO of the aforementioned 500 px. Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana co-founder of Empire Avenue Inc., an Edmonton startup whose social networking game is modeled after the stock market. Aliza Pulver co-founder and chief buying officer of HomeSav. com, an online shopping club that’s been likened to Groupon for home decorating fanatics.