The National Post published two articles (here and here) this week questioning the role / impact of Canada’s startup accelerator programs. In the first article The Post asks “Is Canada’s Accelerator Model Broken?”. In the next it goes on to say that “accelerators are failing to produce the next Hootsuite or Shopify“. Having been deeply [...]
I was reading this morning that Matrix Partners has brought on a new partner. Jared Fliesler is all of 28 years old, but has already held down senior roles at Square and Slide / Google. Impressive stuff. I’m sure the guy is brilliant, but I think 28 is just too young to be a partner [...]
My good friend and professional instigator David Crow sparked some reactions last week with this 100% on the money tweet. Mark Evans chimed in to dispel the myth that there is not enough VC$ in Canada. He then followed up summarizing reactions from a number of Canadian VCs including me. Yes, it would always be [...]
VCs are a popular target for the media, bloggers (and even fellow VCs) to hate on. I know MANY VCs and for the most part, they are awesome, smart, engaged people. Still you always run in to the odd exception to that rule. In good times and bad, you should avoid these exceptional few douche [...]