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by Rob Lewis
on Thu, March 18, 2010 2:26 PM
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Looking for an Angel investor?
The Angel Forum is calling for company applications to present and exhibit to pre-screened private equity investors at the 27th Angel Forum on May 18th in Vancouver.
At the 26th Angel Forum on November 24th of last year, 32 selected companies were selected from 60+ applicants and...
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by Rob Lewis
on Mon, March 15, 2010 10:43 AM
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On the March 22nd the McGill Entrepreneurs’ Society is hosting the Perfect Pitch from 5:00pm - 6:30pm. The informal event will welcome an entrepreneur and a Venture Capitalist to guide attendees to the perfect pitch and begin with five students pitching their business ideas.
Entrepreneur Benjamin Yoskovitz will share...
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by Rob Lewis
on Fri, March 12, 2010 3:15 PM
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On March 22nd, the Canada Trade Commissioner Service is hosting the first of a new speaker series called Insights from the Silicon Valley in Vancouver. In their inaugural presentation, Clint Chao of Formative Ventures will talk about Building Revenue and Market Mindshare from the Ground Up.
Clint Chao is a...
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by Rob Lewis
on Fri, March 12, 2010 2:02 PM
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Thanks to the Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's recent Budget announcement on Section 116, this year's CVCA Annual Conference in Ottawa on May 26-28th should have a celebratory feel to it. And no doubt Conference headliner Rick Mercer will have plenty of new material ready for the audience after questioning Flaherty's...
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by Rob Lewis
on Tue, March 9, 2010 5:19 PM
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On March 23rd the Vancouver Enterprise Forum is hosting Winning the Cleantech Game – Real Growth Stories hosted by Yaletown Venture Partners' Kirk Washington.
Cleantech is one of the fastest growing areas of technology and currently the attracting much of the new investment and media attention. British Columbia is recognized as...
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by Varun Mathur
on Tue, March 9, 2010 11:50 AM
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Remember John Kerry, the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2004 ? Well, couple of weeks ago he introduced a bill in the US Congress on a special visa for foreign start-up entrepreneurs. This bill is the result of extensive lobbying efforts by prominent Silicon Valley folks who figured that easing the...
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by Rob Lewis
on Sun, March 7, 2010 6:00 AM
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Last week was a pretty phenomenal one for Venture Capital and the Canadian tech startup community.
To start, on March 2nd Toronto's Mantella Venture Partners launched a $20 Million early stage technology fund lead by Robin Axon and Duncan Hill, both previously with Ventures West.
Then on March 3rd the Quebec Government...
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by Ian Bell
on Fri, March 5, 2010 1:54 PM
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Ian Andrew Bell is a Techvibes Guest Contributor and this post was published on his blog earlier today.
Over the past way-too-many years I’ve had occasion to interview north of 250 individuals for dozens of positions at both startups and large companies on both sides of the border. Having spent...
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by Rob Lewis
on Thu, March 4, 2010 5:14 PM
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As pointed out by Mark McQueen on Wellington Financial's blog, yesterday's Throne Speech was the beginning of the end for Section 116.
For those of you unfamiliar with this well-discussed section of the Income Tax Act, Section 116 requires the limited partners of US-based venture capital funds to make individual tax...
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by Robert Janelle
on Thu, March 4, 2010 2:22 PM
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Today's Ottawa Citizen has a story about an Ottawa security firm that helped take down a massive worldwide botnet.
The Mariposa botnet was comprised of 13 million compromised computers which were being used by hackers to steal personal information.
Ottawa firm Defence Intelligence develops software for monitoring network traffic which provided them...
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