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May 12th, 2008

MapleLeaf 2.0 Venture Capital News: JLA Backed Blackberry Fund launches Monday

One of Rick Segal’s favourite examples about new business ideas is a Blackberry app that would know when you’re in a meeting and silence the alerts and such.  No wonder then that he’d be involved in a startup fund for new Blackberry software:
VentureBeat decided to jump the gun this weekend and post some news that […]

By Tris Hussey -- 4 comments

March 21st, 2008

VC Roundtable Canadian Tour: Round One Eastern Canada

Rick Segal of JLA Ventures (JLA Ventures is one of the founders of b5media) is starting his Canadian tour of VC Roundtables starting in Eastern Canada:
April 14th Morning - Halifax NS
April 14th Evening - Moncton NB
April 15th Evening - St John’s NF

Here are the ground rules/information for entrepreneurs who would like to present ideas:

About 2 […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

February 25th, 2008

Canadian Innovation Exchange set for April 29-30th

What’s hot in Canadian tech?  Yeah, a lot, but how can you learn about all the great stuff going on?  At the end of April I think you’ll have your chance to see what’s hot now and what will be hot soon at the Canadian Innovation Exchange in Toronto:
The inaugural Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) is […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

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 Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

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