Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Mike Arrington vs. Facebook Lawsuit - Becoming an Expert Witness
In light of Mike Arrington’s and TechCrunch’s lawsuit against Facebook for $25 million based on Facebook’s use of Mike’s image in social ads someone needs to shed the light on the real issues of privacy on the Internet.
Given my history of working on privacy issues, and the fact that Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Humor by austin
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Local Warming poses danger to Canadian innovation - Affecting the seeds of innovation
Yossi Vardi, one of the grandfathers of the Israeli tech industry has this dire warning on the dangers of local warming and how this could be affecting Canada’s seeds of innovation.
If you are a blogger, tech executive or part of Canada’s growing tech community & glued to your laptop - this is an important message [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Humor by austin
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Montreal Startup angel fund launches - Announces Standout Jobs investment
I’m incredibly proud to be part of the new Montreal Startup fund that launched this week.
Montreal Startup is a new $3 million dollar angel-backed seed fund, that is run by John Stokes & Daniel Drouet. Both John and Daniel are very active in the local startup community and did an incredible job in securing the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Angel Financing, Montreal, Montreal Startup Fund, Standout Jobs by austin
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Capital Innovation 2008
Interlogiq is holding a conference this Wednesday on Angel and technology financing.
I’ll be speaking that afternoon alongside Dan Mothersill from the National Angels Organization. I’ll be speaking about some common myths of entrepreneurs & angels that I’ve encountered to try and shed some light on why these two groups so often fail to connect with [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Angel Financing, Fundraising, Montreal by austin
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Congratulations its a Startup - Canadian Fairchildren Unite
In the last two weeks while I was traveling, two Montreal based companies were acquired by large US companies. In and of itself, this is a great thing to celebrate in our Canadian technology community - but there was something additional worth celebrating in each of these cases.
These companies were co-founded by some of my [...]
Posts (RSS)
