Archive for April 30th, 2008
Raising the Dough
30 April 2008If you didn’t catch today’s article in the Globe and Mail on private financing options, here it is. Mark Usher has some worthy advise to entrepreneurs seeking financing alternatives. He will also be attending today’s kick off of the CIX (Canadian Innvation Exchange). Some topics to be covered include Pitching Capital, Term Sheet 101, [...]
Maybe BCE / Ontario Teachers needs JP Morgan
30 April 2008BCE Takeover Part 32
JP Morgan is providing US$11 billion of debt to Mars so that it can consume Wrigley’s in one sitting. Wasn’t it just last week that private equity investors were being conditioned by their banks to believe that they couldn’t do mega loan packages as they’d have to write them down by [...]
London’s VC Confidential
30 April 2008I’m in London, Ontario this morning for the Deloitte/RBC-sponsored “VC Confidential” event, hosted by TechAlliance. The event is sold out, so there are bound to be more than a few local entrepreneurs, Angels, CEOs and University types to meet. For London, a sold out VC event is a pleasant surprise, as there are [...]