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 […]
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It’s a busy time here at b5media. We’re growing, expanding, and gearing up for great stuff. We got word internally last week that Rachel Segal is joining us at b5 media–word is as a marketing honcho–which is very, very cool. I waited until Rachel had made this public before I blabbed–good thing I didn’t have […]
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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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Good morning from Victoria…
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Although Josh thought I had forgotten about DemoCampVictoria in my last post about Canadian tech events I hadn’t but since it’s next week, now is a good time for a little update.
Checking out the wiki I see the following folks are on the docket to present:
Why DemoCampVictoria was created (Mark Lise)
Fortuno (Jesse and Jason)
Genetify (Andrew)
BountyUp […]
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I’ve been a tele-worker for over eight years now. Yeah, a long time. Since I’ve started I’ve moved from working with one phone line and 33.6 dialup to digital phone and highspeed cable Internet access. Through it all though, I’ve tried to keep with some basic “rules” like trying not to “work” all the time […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Written by Tris Hussey [email] for b5media.
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