[spitfire]

> As for health startups, it has at least one that I know about (and I'm not talking about genologics).

I was thinking more 3D printed walkers, canes and replacement hips...

I think the best thing for Victoria to do is be humble (Means shutting up viatec's constant spouting). Make a deliberate effort to learn as a community at the management, business and technical level. To grow the infrastructure and gain sophistication at all of those levels. Not a flashy apps will save the world sort of thing, but it'd lead to a confident viable niche.

As for the local angels, they're part of the problem. Not the solution. You don't know the half of it. I've never taken funding of any sort though, so I don't know the real depths of the issue. From my interactions I can just imagine how deep they are.

[mock]

Derek over at http://www.biospace.ca/ and http://makerspace.ca is trying to do some of that sort of thing.

[spitfire]

Hah! and I was joking too. Given Victoria's demographics.

That's awesome. Good luck. The whole maker/3d printing stuff will be coming of age over the next decade. Lots of people will make themselves nice niche markets there.