Philanthropic Giving vs. Venture Capital

Friday, December 11th, 2009 Posted in Best Practices, Venture Capital | 3 Comments »

In my last post, I discussed strategy for charitable giving and promised to add some thoughts on how you can be very strategic about it. Philanthropic giving is much like venture ... Read more..

Time, Treasure and Talent

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in Best Practices, Venture Capital | 6 Comments »

All of us at Tech Capital are very involved in supporting charitable activities in our community. As a result, I am often asked for advice by those who are trying ... Read more..

Power Equations

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Venture Capital | 2 Comments »

Recently I was asked to speak at a TechAlliance / Ernst & Young event in London, Ontario about valuations. I was speaking after Bill Armitage who was clear and understandable ... Read more..

Word Clouds: What are they good for?

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Research | No Comments »

Word clouds are a great way to quickly visualize word density in large amounts of text. We've all seen word clouds before but not many people create them for their ... 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..

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..

It’s All About the People…!

Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Human Resources | No Comments »

I have been considering what to write about for my first Human Resources blog post. Many topics come to mind – HR best practices, hot topics in the various functional ... Read more..