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April 21st, 2008

Tech Channel Theme Day-Lists: Top 10 Reasons Your Tech Startup Should Be In Canada

This morning Rick Segal was here for the Victoria VC Roundtable .  One of the things that I really like about Rick is that he is passionate about the companies he invests in, but the thing I like most is that he is unabashedly pro-Canadian.  Rick, like me, is American–I took the leap and […]

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February 24th, 2008

How to get a VC’s attention–Advice from Rick Segal

You should know, of course, that JLA Ventures is one of b5media’s VC backers (the other is Brightspark).  Now I read Rick Segal not just cause he’s our VC, I was reading him long before that, I read him to get insight into venture capital and entrepreneurship.
This recent post, which I don’t think Rick’s mind […]

By User ImageTris Hussey -- 1 comment

January 23rd, 2008

Automattic Nails $29 million in funding! The open-source model has legs

Great, great news this morning that Automattic received an investment, and the Gray Lady herself is one of the investors, of $29.5 million to build their business even more.  I like to see these reasonable amounts of funding.  Sure it’s a lot of money, but it also costs a lot to build a business as […]

By User ImageTris Hussey -- 2 comments

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