As part of an ongoing series of interviews with Sacramento founders, I sat down with John Parilo, President & Co-Founder of wimZr, this past weekend while we were both hanging out at Startup Weekend where he was graciously donating his time to mentor participants. wimZr, which was the official app of this Startup Weekend Sacramento event, is a mobile application connecting people with social connections and the most up-to-date information before, during, and after any event or at travel destination around the world. Following is an interview with John where he shares his journey, some lessons-learned along the way, thoughts on entrepreneurship, and the Sacramento startup community.

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As you can see, John is a great asset to the Sacramento startup community and another example of how Sacramento’s entrepreneurs share, collaborate, and offer their skills and knowledge with a ‘Give First’ mentality. John also presented recently at a 1 Million Cups event and you can learn more about wimZr in the video of that presentation below.

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