Archive for February 17th, 2009
2008 gave new meaning to the word “brutal” for Canada’s Innovation Economy
17 February 2009The venture capital stats are now out for 2008, and the message is only getting worse for Canada’s VC industry. This isn’t a new topic in this corner of the blogosphere (see prior representative posts “Brutal venture capital stats for H1 2007” August 1-07, “Solving the Start-up & VC malaise” January 18-08), but I’m [...]
CPPIB U.S.A. general partner Q3 2008 performance numbers
17 February 2009Lots of action can be found in the U.S. and European GP figures that reside on the CPP Investment Board website for Q3 2008. This review covers those GPs that count the CPPIB as a direct limited partner (as at Sept. 2008). Five new general partner commitments were added by the CPPIB during the quarter.
Some of [...]
Trying Twitter part 2
17 February 2009Even though I have little to Twitter about so far, I’m on board. All courtesy of my new pal. Her comment to my original post (see prior post “Trying Twitter” February 14-09) deserves its own real estate. Here it is, and the message is relevant to anyone in the business or tech [...]