Archive for October 16th, 2007
NBF’s Waterloo Bus Tour turns up some nuggets
16 October 2007Back in the day, I organized a Waterloo bus tour for Toronto VCs, in conjunction with the local technology association Communitech. We saw some good private names, including DSP Factory, Meikle Automation, Handshake, etc. over a five year period. Once I left investment banking, the ground went fallow for awhile. I’m pleased [...]
The self-serving but sensible “bailout”
16 October 2007It is too early to figure this entirely out just yet, but the momentum behind the creation of a new global fund to warehouse all of the icky AAA and AA asset backed securities sounds to be a stroke of genius by Citibank, JP Morgan and Bank of America. In some ways the concept [...]