By any measure, Canada’s venture capital market, and the ecosystem as a whole, appears to be on fire. I can’t think of a time over my 10+ years of blogging when I might have said that,...
Dateline: Menlo Park “The whole tech sector, flush for years with confidence and talk of disruption, suddenly has an air of desperation about it.” Time Magazine, Nov. 12/15 Is that a cliff, just ahead?...
It’s not all just charities and BNN appearances here at Wellington Financial. We also find time to put meaningful growth capital into the hands of talented management teams. Our most recent financing was an...
The plagiarism maelstorm that has enveloped Toronto District School Board Director of Education Chris Spence didn’t come as a surprise to me. Not because I had an inkling about the man at the centre...
Plagiarism accusations have enveloped my morning read, the Globe and Mail newspaper. If one wanted to be generous, perhaps the word might have been imitation, rather than plagiarism, although the Western University professors I...
Rather than break the news of others (see representative prior posts “$100M+ acquisition of Dayforce in the works” Dec 19-11, “Fixmo lands US$23.4M from Kleiner Perkins, Paladin and Horizons” Nov 27-11, “Google acquires BumpTop”...
Let it not be said that no one is having fun in the Canadian venture capital landscape (see prior post “Balsillie to take helm as Wellington Financial’s Chairman” April 1-12). I’d figured that folks...
According to a bid on SharesPost, someone will buy 10,000 shares of Facebook at $33.00 per share, implying a US$74.8 billion valuation on the social media entity. Sellers are demanding between $31.00 and $39.00,...
News item: Facebook valued at US$50 billion Not to kick sand in the face of Goldman Sach’s Private Client group, particularly since I’m a shareholder of the parent co. and all, but I think...
As took place with our initial Bumptop/Google acquisition post last May, in the wake of our post this morning (see prior post “Google closing in on next Canadian acquisition target” Aug 30-10), Canadian start-up...
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