Nice article in this week’s BIV about W Media and Nexopia
I think that Curt Cherewayko has done a great job in this week’s Business in Vancouver describing the market opportunities for both W Media Ventures as well as Nexopia. Only correction: I am the proud father of only one (and not two) boys but what the heck….
Why these tough times are good for Canadian Internet start-ups
These are definitely tough times for start-ups and it is amazing to see how quickly the mood has changed, from continued optimism despite the looming sub prime market meltdown to sheer panic after the stock market sell-out. Since the now-already-famous Sequoia presentation, many start-ups have already reacted by significantly cutting their burn-rate and more cutting […]
Calling all India and China entrepreneurs
Not a day passes that people don’t talk about the great opportunities that India and China are offering and I have been slowly getting involved with both countries: Indochino – while a Canadian company – operates it tailor-made suits business out of Shanghai and LiveCurrent is very active in India with its Cricket.com venture. But […]
Techvibes – another successful (re)launch!
The season of relaunches continues: last week, Techvibes launched a completely overhauled product that has received some pretty good feedback here and here. The new product should lay the foundation to build a network of hyper-local technology news blogs and communities across North-America – while Techvibes currently only covers all major Canadian cities plus Seattle […]
Amazon acquires AbeBooks
Today Amazon announced the acquisition of Victoria-based AbeBooks, the company I have been involved with for over 7 years (operationally as COO until October last year, since then as Director and consultant). As you can imagine, I am extremely excited about this deal which makes tremendous sense for everybody involved: Amazon (who has been heavily […]