New investment: SilkStart, SaaS for membership organizations

All membership organizations I am involved in face the same challenges: how to deliver value to and engage their members, how increase revenues to invest back into their organization and how to do all this on a shoestring budget. Technology can help solve these problems for the millions of associations out there and I am […]

Inspiring a new generation of entrepreneurs – RIP Steve Jobs

We have not truly celebrated entrepreneurs since the generation of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison – entrepreneurs got respect, awards, sometimes biographies but never the attention of top athletes or celebrities. Steve Jobs has changed this – he became a mass media phenomenon with a deep impact beyond the technology circles. I hope that many […]

Relaunch

The products of start-ups sometimes evolve so quickly that the communication of those changes falls behind – websites suddenly appear outdated and stale compared to the real story. This is how I felt when I looked at the w media ventures site a few weeks ago and decided that it was about time for a […]

What the BC technology industry really needs

Gary Mason had a great article in the Globe and Mail yesterday analyzing the performance of some of the BC government organizations charged to drive forward the tech sector in this province. And this paragraph probably sums it up best: There are many well-meaning and hard-working people at both the innovation council and Premier’s technology […]

New investment: GoInstant, browser sharing 2.0 (native, instant, social)

Screen sharing has been around for a while but the underlying technology (and hence the customer experience) has not really changed that much. It is neither instant (you need to download a piece of software) nor native (you usually see a video of another person’s desktop/browser resulting in a slow and “laggy” experience) – and […]