We launched the new Carrie & Danielle website last night, quietly and without a lot of fuss (but thanks for the coverage, Techvibes). I’ve been through many website launches in the past and inevitably there are things you didn’t think of until the very last minute, tiny but significant differences between the staging and production [...]
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Why You Shouldn’t Build The Next Twitter
When a company like Twitter raises a large B round at a giant valuation for a pre-revenue company it tends to send ripples of scorn through the tech community. People were similarly bewildered and upset when Slide got their $550 million valuation and of course livid when Microsoft’s strategic investment in Facebook valued the social [...]
Debt is Your Friend
I attended a great talk by Rick Segal of JLA Ventures this evening, hosted by my friends at BootUp Labs. Sort of a primer on the process you go through to raise VC money. Outsiders often have the best insight, and as an American running a Canadian VC fund, Rick’s better placed than most to [...]
Getting Funded in Canada
I just got around to reading Paul Graham’s post on the VC industry’s reluctance to change its investment approach, despite evidence that its model might be broken. It’s hard to argue with the point that it costs less than it used to to create many kinds of technology-based businesses, and by extension that a valid [...]