Vancouver startup PayrollHero gets creative and lands in San Francisco
Vancouver serial entrepreneurs Stephen Jagger and Mike Stephenson are spending the next three months working on their latest venture at Lean UX startup residency program LUXr in San Francisco. But you may be surprised how they ended up there.
When starting their last new ventures Outsourcing Things Done they had a hard time with payroll, schedules and time tracking. While there were plenty of payroll solutions online, they weren't able to find one that fit their requirements.
Like typical entrepreneurs, they assigned a couple of their developers on the project and built a payroll/time tracking/scheduling software application. They showed it to a few business owners - they liked it and PayrollHero was born.
So why are they now in San Francisco?
Jagger and Stephenson met Eric Ries in Whistler earlier this year and got creative with the Lean Startup guru. After learning about LUXr from Ries, they did a deal with him to buy his LUXr package (valued at over $37k) that included 500 copies of his recent book AND entry into LUXr's fall program.
It looks like LUXr may be a huge opportunity for this Vancouver startup - LUXr tenant Lift was funded by Twitter founders last summer.
Jagger and Stephenson have been joined in the Valley by developers Piotr Banasik and Adam Baechler and will be documenting their experience online over the next three months - check them out.
