If the rumours are true, Canadian entrepreneurs will be getting a lump of coal in their stockings this Christmas. Word is that Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth is essentially recommending that he...
You can find the original article here. Wellington Financial, a Toronto-based specialty finance firm, has raised nearly all of its target of $300 million for its fifth innovation-focused private debt fund. Wellington President and...
There were plenty of casualties in the recent Provincial election; some deserved and some not. This post tries to give you some background on one of them. It has been about two months since...
Now that their membership drive is over, the focus of the Ontario Liberal Party will be on which leadership candidate has the right stuff to replace Premier Dalton McGuinty. You could lean different ways...
It might not be a campaign of revisionist history, but today’s peHUB report about the VC industry allegedly trying to keep its distance from Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is worth reflecting on: When...
Dateline: Boston I happened across a blog post by Sarah Tavel of Bessemer Venture Partners, and it pretty much outlined why the U.S. venture market has responded so well to Wellington’s non-amortizing venture debt...
Thanks to the help of all of you, this space is usually first with the meaty news in Canada’s VC industry. Our post about the death of the proposed VenGrowth / Covington deal beat...
I know that the New York Times is concerned about a private company technology bubble in Silicon Valley, but the U.S. VC industry has climbed a wall of worry over the past few years,...
Clear as the nose on your face. That has to be one of the true joys of a management consulting assignment from time to time. The answer is obvious from the moment you arrive...
Is the venture model “broken”? Do venture returns really “suck”? Is there a “new way” to grow innovation companies? Can public servants do a better job of picking winners vs. losers than private sector...
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