As part of the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association’s launch of its new quarterly industry magazine Private Capital, I interviewed celebrated venture capitalist Roger McNamee, a general partner of Elevation Partners. The...
If you are a tech company in Canada, you’ve probably met Lorne Sugarman, GMP’s tech investment banker, over the past several years. Although this past week has been brutal, 2007 is shaping up to...
If you’ve ever lived in the Greater Toronto Area, you’ll have heard of this week’s interviewee. John Honderich, C.M. ran Canada’s largest circulation newspaper, The Toronto Star, for as long as I can remember....
If you haven’t been paying attention of late to the Canadian venture capital market, you may not have noticed that Growthworks has become one of the tallest trees in the forest. With serious assets...
To celebrate his first year with our firm, I thought it was timely to turn the tables on our own partner, Mark Usher. With 15 years of experience at The Royal Bank of Canada,...
As you may have noticed, there is a bit of unspoken subtext to much of the blogosphere. This corner included. With today’s post, the secret is out: some of us are actually the offspring...
We can’t let the month of June pass without another crack at a venture capitalist. This week’s interview candidate is John Varghese, Managing Director of VentureLink Funds, a Toronto-based labour sponsored fund. John and...
Tom Liston will be well known to many a tech CEO and CFO. As the software and services research analyst at Versant Partners, Tom is a well regarded and experienced commentator. He doesn’t push...
You’ve got to give the guy credit for being a good sport. This week’s interviewee is Wayne Purboo, the CEO of QuickPlay Media, funded by JLA Ventures and General Catalyst Partners. What began as...
When I first met this week’s interview candidate back in 2000, Peter Schwartz was President & CEO of Descartes Systems Group (DSG:TSX). He was good enough to connect me with Lee Green, then CEO...
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