Vancouver: Wonders start here
It is really great to see how Vancouver’s tech community has developed over the past couple of years – events like GROW or Launch Party, organizations like the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society, BCIC or the VEF and media outlets like Techvibes played a key role in bringing everybody together. Now Vancouver also has a video to […]
After Angelgate, a good moment to go back to the basics
By now, everybody should have heard about Angelgate, from Arrington’s initial walk into the secret meeting of Silicon Valley super-angels to Dave McClure’s blog post as a response to Ron Conway’s email distancing himself from whatever was going on. A lot of drama during these past 3 days, too much drama in my opinion. And […]
How to become a (successful) angel investor
Angel investors are crucial for every start-up ecosystem and Canada certainly needs more of them (especially of the super-angel kind!). But angel investing is not only good for the start-ups that benefit from early and risk-taking investors, it can also generate great returns for the investors. At least if they follow a few key rules. […]
So where are the Canadian super-angels?
Everybody talks about the emergence of super-angels and micro VC’s and how they fill an important role in a startup world that has smaller and smaller funding requirements. So when I check Angellist, the most important directory of angels in North-America and Europe, I only find 3 Canadian angels (of a total of 350 registered […]
Stay focused: work on the business, not in it
This week just flew by and it felt like an endless series of emails, meetings, calls and travel without me having spent a minute working on some of the larger and more strategic topics that I have defined for myself and W Media Ventures. Getting drowned by day-to-day stuff is a trap that one can […]