Archive for November, 2004
I did not attend the 16th Angel Forum held in Vancouver, BC, Canada on November 22nd but I got a report back from Bob Chaworth-Musters that it was a great event, with 90 registered investors (including from Denver, Seattle, Edmonton & Calgary, Kelowna and Victoria as well as nearly all Vancouver vc fund managers) [...]
Finally, the Smart Car is launching in the USA with a distribution company called ZAP. It seems kind of odd to me that they are being sold directly through the Mercedes dealers in Canada but being sold only through a distributor in the USA. That is the reverse of much of our business. [...]
Here is an interesting article on the differences between Japan’s NTT DoCoMo and Microsoft. One does R&D and then gives direction to a community of partners, developers, hardware suppliers, and content providers. The other starts from the same point but then develops (or acquires) the entire software architecture internally and then delivers it fait [...]
From the Register:
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Three “bored” German teenagers blew a staggering £80 million (₠130 million) in just two hours after they ran amok in an online spending spree.
Using stolen credit card details the trio bought airplanes, works of art, designer clothes, restaurants, industrial machinery, patents and sound systems.
They were arrested by [...]
On November 8th & 9th, I volunteered at the Canadian IT & Biotech Financing Forum, assisting Dave Thomas, Reg Nordman, Nick Tattersall, Mary McDonald (of McDonald & Associates) and the gang from Rocketbuilders. I had the opportunity to meet the founders and entrepreneurs from 40 different companies and to watch some of them present [...]
Hi everyone, sorry for the long silence. I got busy and Firefox also stopped working as a blog-editor. Once that happened, I stopped blogging. I have picked up a copy of Ecto 2 which has lots of flaws but at least it works. I never was able to troubleshoot the problem in Firefox. Darned [...]
Book-burning and more importantly, book-re-writing has been used throughout the rein of man to erase the collective knowledge and to curb dangerous thoughts and direct society. This infamous technique for hiding knowledge continues unabated today in Texas. Dubya and the ideologues (sounds like a great rock band title), continue to push their ideological and [...]
Now your board members can’t say that the board meeting is stopping them from getting any exercise! Just have it while riding the Conference Bike! Although you would probably be well advised to make sure that the person steering doesn’t also have to chair or do secretarial tasks.
Perhaps all of us Vancouver blogger types need to join our Southern friends at the Blog Business Summit in Seattle scheduled for January 24-25, 2005. Could be an interesting event.
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We’re pleased to announce the Blog Business Summit has launched.
The summit will be the gathering place for hundreds of entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, and current [...]
I really like Robert’s recent posting called “Happy Halloween from the Corporate Troll” where he describes how websites are keeping users close by telling them to go away. It sounds paradoxical but I agree with him. We are sick of being corralled, manipulated, enclosed, restricted, and proscribed by DRM, file formats, streaming media formats, and [...]
