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by Brent Holliday
on Tue, July 6, 2010 3:58 PM
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This is a guest post by Brent Holliday of Capital West Partners and was published earlier today as part of Corporate Recruiters Quarterly Recruitment Newsletter. _______________________________________________________________________________________
Here is a nice problem to have: your company is growing too fast. After a couple years of survival and recovery stories, it’s nice...
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by Brent Holliday
on Mon, October 26, 2009 12:43 PM
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I had an interesting chat with a local Internet Media company founder late this summer. He told me that he needed to hire a "face" for the organization that would be more appealing to the masses, specifically the real-time web, social media (Web 2.0) masses... more commonly referred to as...
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by Brent Holliday
on Thu, August 20, 2009 4:45 PM
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Where in Vancouver do you like to meet to give a pitch, look for a job or hear about a company’s progress? Over coffee or at lunch are the main ways to meet in our town. After 15 years of talking to technology entrepreneurs, angels, fellow VCs and plenty...
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by Brent Holliday
on Fri, June 19, 2009 12:39 PM
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Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada
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Funding & Exits,
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Imagine you are an angel investor (perhaps you are). Over the past few years you have made investments and lost a few. The problem today is that all of your other investments have plunged and your net worth is where it was when you graduated from university (hey,...
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by Brent Holliday
on Wed, June 3, 2009 3:48 PM
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My very first Something Ventured column in April 1998 was a breathless description of how the future of BC's technology industry would be on the back of Ballard Power Systems. I had an insider's view of Ballard at the time because I was sitting at BDC Venture Capital and...
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by Brent Holliday
on Wed, May 13, 2009 11:19 AM
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This just in: VCs are sheep. In case you missed it, they all tend to look and act the same, although they smell much better. The VCs I mean. After being one of the flock for 14 years, I can speak to the herd mentality that drives...
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