Youthful startup starts over with new plan
22.05.12
WATERLOO — They’ve only been out of high school for a couple of years, but 19-year-olds William Zhou and David Kim are already helping teachers around the world with their lesson plans.
Zhou and Kim initially became partners in a business called Design Vetica, which they started when they were 17-year-old high school students in Vancouver.
They built a tool called Draftboard to make sharing and approval process for mockups a lot easier for web designers.
After high school Zhou, moved to the Waterloo Region, where he is now a second-year University of Waterloo computer science student. Kim, meanwhile, continued his studies in Vancouver.
It was tough to run Draftboard as a team of only two people working at different ends of the country so they sold the application to a company in the United Kingdom.
“We were separated and working remotely was hard for us,” Zhou says. “Managing it became a challenge.”
That might have been the end of the partnership, but now, the company has a new lease on life in Waterloo Region, where it has incorporated under a new name, Vetica Interactive Inc.
Source: Waterloo Record