Archive for September 12th, 2007
Uranium tulip bulbs
12 September 2007This topic might be considered outside my area of expertise. Not gardening, but uranium. I’m not even sure if it’s on the table of periodic elements. Grade 12 science was a long time ago.
But what I do understand about uranium is this: according to a well-placed source – and I have [...]
Hot tech market hasn’t gone away
12 September 2007If you assumed that the rock ‘em, sock ‘em market of the past few weeks is spurning Canada’s investment banks from launching tech offerings, you would be wrong. The success of Dragonwave’s (DWI:TSX) recent $43 million bought deal is serving to embolden the sell side. Although it was done at a 7% discount [...]
Brutal venture capital stats for H1 2007 part 3
12 September 2007A quick thank you to Mark Evans for pursuing the topic of weak VC investing trends in his blog post “Canada’s venture capital crisis“. While the model isn’t perfect, he is right to support the need to permanently extend the ability for the good labour-sponsored funds to raise capital. Our prior stuff is [...]