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Sarah Hickman

Deloitte | Venture capital, VC, tech industry, tech companies, angel investors - 0 views

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    The attitudes and intentions of venture capitalists all over the world are exposed: venture capitalists are not embracing global investment as much as expected! APAC, Europe, U.S., Canada, and Israel perspectives are also presented.
Assunta Krehl

Timing is everything - Progress Magazine - September 21, 2011 - 0 views

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    Peter Moreira states "Canada badly needs to develop its VC industry." Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association is a MaRS Discovery District tenant as is working to increase venture capitalist across Canada.
Cathy Bogaart

After Hours : November 10, 2009 : Opening Canadian Borders to Foreign Venture Capital [... - 0 views

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    BNN After Hours : November 10, 2009 : Opening Canadian Borders to Foreign Venture Capital [11-10-09 4:30 PM] Stephen Hurwitz, partner, Choate, Hall and Stewart, tells BNN Canada's tax laws are creating a nightmare of red-tape for U.S. venture capitalists who want to invest here. A 7-minute live interview with BNN on Section 116 and the serious harm it continues to do to the Canadian venture capital and technology industries.
Cathy Bogaart

Plucking 'low hanging fruit' on energy tree - with MaRS Advisor, Tom Rand - 0 views

  • The groundswell of geothermal interest among builders, developers and individual homeowners all over the GTA is mainly because it's what "green" venture capitalist Tom Rand calls "low hanging fruit" on the energy tree – easy to pluck and very cheap in the long run.
  • It has special appeal in large-scale operations, something Rand covers in a book he is working on. "I didn't think it was possible to go 100 per cent renewable but the studies support it.''
  • He claims that "if you drill 10 kilometres down to the really high temperatures, you can make enough energy to supply the whole U.S. with between three and 30,000 times more energy than it needs."
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  • It might be said that the Planet Traveler hotel in Kensington Market, in which Rand is a partner, is a bit of a test case. Although it appeared initially that geothermal wouldn't be possible on such a tight city lot, Rand approached the city about using the lane behind the hotel to sink his geothermal pipes.
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    The groundswell of geothermal interest among builders, developers and individual homeowners all over the GTA is mainly because it's what "green" venture capitalist and MaRS Advisor Tom Rand calls "low hanging fruit" on the energy tree - easy to pluck and very cheap in the long run. Tom talks about the opportunities available to enterprising, innovative businesses.
Sarah Hickman

Term Sheets & Valuations: An Inside Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valuations... - 0 views

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    The book, written by leading venture capitalist Alexander Wilmerding of Boston Capital Ventures, covers topics such What is a Term Sheet, How to Examine a Term Sheet, A Section-by-Section View of a Term Sheet, Valuations, What Every Entrepreneur & Executive Needs to Know About Term Sheets, Valuation Parameters, and East Coast Versus West Coast Rules. In addition, the book includes an actual term sheet from a leading law firm with line by line descriptions of each clause, what can/should be negotiated, and the important points to pay attention to
Assunta Krehl

The Next 36's Venture Day: Eight Student-Backed Start-ups ask Venture Capitalists for F... - 0 views

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    The Next 36 is Canada's Entrepreneurial Initiative. According to Mark Zimmerman, MaRS' Senior ICE Advisor, "the Next 36 is a student spin off of the provincially and corporately backed MaRS Centre for Innovation, if you will, which backs over 1200 startups, 140 of which are mobile."
Cathy Bogaart

Global VC Blog Directory - Ranked By # of Google Reader Subscribers (Sept 200... - 0 views

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    Sept 2009 - Global VC Blog Directory - originally published in May 2009. These are the blogs of venture capitalists and VC firms from around the world - ranked by their number of Google Reader subscribers.
June A

Business of Green - Venture Capitalists See Growth in Agriculture 2.0 - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    agriculture "venture capital"
Assunta Krehl

A Green Venture Capitalist's Call To Action - The Mark - June 2, 2010 - 0 views

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    Tom Rand, Lead Cleantech Advisor, MaRS Discovery Distric says " his hotel shows that anyone can cut carbon and make money at the same time."
Miguel Amante

The power exists to save our planet - Montreal Gazette - July 2, 2010 - 1 views

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    "Toronto-based engineer and venture capitalist Tom Rand has come out with what I'd call the most important book of the year. Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World is a flashy five-pound coffee table book available everywhere. Instead of photos of Renaissance art or horses, it features glossy spreads of giant solar farms, geothermal energy installations and state-of-the-art wind complexes. It's weirdly beautiful. Not because geothermal energy installations are gorgeous. It's thrilling to finally see so many potential solutions to the gravest and most intractable problems laid out so clearly."
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