News report: Canada’s new “Venture Catalyst Fund” invests in $46M Wattpad deal I’m so utterly confused. For years, Canadian entrepreneurs and VCs begged Ottawa to get involved in arresting the multi-year decline in our...
The opposition is fierce, I read, and by last evening there were thousands of pages of letters filed with the various arms of the U.S. government. The goal of the “Volker Rule” is to...
Dateline: Ottawa Have you ever attended an industry conference and wanted to ask a pithy question, but didn’t for fear of a negative reaction from the panelists or audience regarding your “too true” question/statement?...
Want to join the venture capital industry? Now is the time to make the move. Title: General Partner Sector Focus: Information Technology and Mobile Computing Mandate: Ontario based, with a North American investment strategy...
Today’s Throne Speech contained a passage that will excite our friends John Ruffolo, of Deloitte, Stephen Hurwitz, of law firm Choate in Boston and Yaletown’s Steve Hnatiuk (Chair of the CVCA Tax Policy Committee)....
How do you sum up the Province of Ontario’s venture capital situation in the space of 300 seconds? Around noon on Monday, representatives of the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association will be...
One of the funnier (irony alert) things I heard this year was that “there is too much venture capital” (see prior post “This is Roger Martin, reporting from Mars” Nov 25-08), which as a...
The Quebec City Conference (see prior post “The bang of the VC buck” October 21-09) was useful on many levels, but it served as a great catch basin for what I’ll call the “most...
“It’s not the size of the wand, it’s the magician.” Listening to Harvard Prof. Josh Lerner yesterday at the Quebec City Conference, one couldn’t help but think that the U.S. Venture Capital Industry is...
If you are ever overseas and find yourself in a tough spot, it is always comforting to know that the JTF2 are just a few hours away should the need arise. But can the...
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