Archive for August, 2008

Venture Funding

Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | No Comments »

In a previous post I discussed why most businesses we see should probably be bootstrapped rather than venture funded. I promised to discuss a bit more about venture backed business ... Read more..

Changing demographics effect on recruitment… Considering skilled immigrant talent attraction

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Human Resources | No Comments »

I went to an interesting conference not long ago where David Foote, world-renowned demographics expert and author of Boom Bust & Echo gave a very insightful talk on changing demographics ... Read more..

"Bragging rights after kicking your friends’ butts is the best prize going!"

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in Portfolio Company | No Comments »

Continuing on in our series of profiling Tech Capital portfolio companies, I recently spoke with Dave Bullock, President of LiveHive Systems about some of the projects they've been working on. ... Read more..

In Praise of Willy Loman

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | 3 Comments »

I was approaching the end of my academic career at engineering school on Black Monday (October 16, 1987), a single day when the global stock market was hit by massive ... Read more..