Thanks to the fine folks at www.StartUpNorth.ca, there has been a vibrant online discussion over several days regarding the “problems” with the Ontario government’s MaRS program. As of this morning, there have been over...
Yesterday’s Prime Ministerial announcement from innovation-focussed Montreal came as a relief. It had been almost 10 months since the Federal government unveiled the $400 million budget envelope designed to help get more capital into...
I had the chance to be the luncheon speaker at the 10th annual Canadian Business Magazine Leadership Forum earlier today. It was a unique opportunity to be part of an day-long agenda with a...
Leadership – I can’t say I think about it very much. I suffer from the school of “just get the job done”, rather than spending much time thinking about the more theoretical aspects of...
News item: W. Brett Wilson quits CBC’s Dragon’s Den A voice of sanity from that modern day Christians & Lions phenomenon that is the Dragon’s Den. I’ve never met Brett Wilson, but I have...
For those of you not able to make it to the 12th Annual Canadian Private Equity Markets Summit today in Toronto, here’s a sneak peak at the presentation I’m giving as part of the...
It’s 6 a.m., and I would normally have tackled the machinations underway regarding Frank Stronach’s offer to swap his Class A super voting Magna shares for a $1 billion of cash, common shares and...
Tomorrow begins the blogging “hunger strike”, but first, some passing thoughts about this week’s business media wars: Although we are in month three of the self-imposed moratorium on any and all blogging to do...
The Canadian technology landscape isn’t all bleak, as journalists Andrew Wahl and Joe Castaldo revealed in the July 20th edition of Canadian Business Magazine. They feature five late stage, pre-IPO companies in an article...
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