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Not a waste of time…

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Posted in Events, Opportunity | 1 Comment »

People who know me know I hate to waste time… Even more so, I hate it when folks at our portfolio companies have their time wasted. These days, more than ... Read more..

Books for Entrepreneurs (and VCs)

Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Best Practices, Venture Capital | 2 Comments »

Brad Feld and Fred Wilson have both written blog posts over the past few days on "Books for Entrepreneurs" (and I would add VCs), and Zachary Burt has started a ... Read more..

Communitech Tech Leadership Conference – Next week!?!

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in Conferences, Events | 1 Comment »

So Tim Jackson brought to my attention this morning that the Communitech Tech Leadership Conference is next week!?! I have it in my calendar. I think I’m registered to attend ... Read more..

Calling All Connectors

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Best Practices, Networks, Opportunity, Venture Capital | 11 Comments »

Lots of discussion/blogging/articles over the past few weeks about entrepreneurs and innovation in Canada. Here’s where we weighed in: Tim Jackson: Entrepreneurship and the upside to a downturn The consensus appears to ... Read more..

Entrepreneurs, Persistence and Impact on the Economy

Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Best Practices | 15 Comments »

We work everyday with entrepreneurs who are battling on the frontlines of this economy. It seems that as the news gets worse and worse, these entrepreneurs and management teams ... Read more..

12 Things I Love About How Our Portfolio Companies Operate

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 Posted in Best Practices, Human Resources, Portfolio Company | No Comments »

Over the years Tech Capital has developed a set of best practices for building technology companies. Some of these best practices have come from our own experiences and some have ... Read more..

Stop Pitching and Focus on Building

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in Conferences, Events, Venture Capital | 1 Comment »

A few years ago, we (as a community) strategically decided that we would no longer have "pitch competition" events in Waterloo. Pitch competitions are events where a number of technology ... Read more..

Do or Die: Global Customers, Investors and Acquirers

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Best Practices, Events | No Comments »

Last week I attended one of the CVCA's professional development events in Toronto (full disclosure I am a member of the CVCA professional development committee). The topic for the session ... Read more..

A Career in Venture Capital

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | 1 Comment »

People often ask me about how to become a venture capitalist and how I *decided* I wanted to be a VC. I must admit, a career in venture capital was ... 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..

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