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Sarah Hickman

MaRS Discovery District - Recommended Resources - Funding & Financing Resources - The P... - 0 views

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canada finance venture capital

shared by Sarah Hickman on 08 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • Sarah Hickman on 08 Sep 09
     
    (Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, and RBC Financial Group) "For years, Canada's regulatory environment held back the development of the private venture capital business and this caused deep-rooted structural impediments in the Canadian venture capital marketplace. Some of these impediments exist to this day."
  • Sarah Hickman on 08 Sep 09
     
    (Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, and RBC Financial Group) "For years, Canada's regulatory environment held back the development of the private venture capital business and this caused deep-rooted structural impediments in the Canadian venture capital marketplace. Some of these impediments exist to this day."
Cathy Bogaart

Canada's non-profit maze - Wellesley Institute - 0 views

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socialfinance socialentrepreneurship social finance legal government

shared by Cathy Bogaart on 17 Jul 09 - Cached
  • non-profit, charitable and voluntary organizations that provide programs and services
  • a troubling picture of the financial and regulatory burdens facing the third sector
  • Cathy Bogaart on 17 Jul 09
     
    The Wellesley Institute brings us a report on how the "third sector" (the sector of non-profit, charitable and voluntary organizations with programs and services) is doing in these economic and regulatory times. Chris Evans writes a blog on this report at http://blog.marsdd.com
Assunta Krehl

Do-gooders can earn a good living - 0 views

www.financialpost.com/...story.html

social entrepreneurship finance Toronto SiG Causeway

shared by Assunta Krehl on 09 Jul 09 - No Cached
  • ore recently, Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy pledged $6-million to the Social Innovation Generation program at MaRS, established to provide social entrepreneurs with knowledge, contacts and capital.
  • Associations such as the Social Enterprise Council of Canada and the Causeway Social Finance Initiative are engaging civic and financial decision-makers to develop a more fostering environment for social enterprise.
  • Assunta Krehl on 09 Jul 09
     
    Social entrepreneurs carving out new and innovative ways of simultaneously yielding in financial, social and/or environmental returns.Canada does not have a distinct regulatory framework to guide and support social enterprises' hybrid activities. SiG at MaRS program established to provide social entrepreneurs with knowledge, contacts and capital.
  • Assunta Krehl on 09 Jul 09
     
    Social entrepreneurs carving out new and innovative ways of simultaneously yielding in financial, social and/or environmental returns. Canada does not have a distinct regulatory framework to guide and support social enterprises' hybrid activities.
George Botos

AZ pitches social-media rules to FDA - FiercePharma - 0 views

www.fiercepharma.com/...2010-03-02

Life-science social-media regulatory

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  • George Botos on 02 Mar 10
     
    AstraZeneca has made its social-media pitch to the FDA. In response to the agency's call for comments on new rules for online marketing and communications, the drugmaker outlined some ways interactions with customers--and potential customers--might be governed. Read more: http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/az-pitches-social-media-rules-fda/2010-03-02?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0h2feB1qq
Tim T

The Disposable Worker - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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economy entrepreneurship business

shared by Tim T on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • LiveOps, a Santa Clara (Calif.) provider of call-center workers
  • from Eastman Kodak (EK) and Pizza Hut (YUM) to infomercial behemoth Tristar Products. She's paid by the minute—25 cents—but only for the time she's actually on the phone with customers
  • independent agent, Smith has no health insurance, no retirement benefits, no sick days, no vacation, no severance, and no access to unemployment insurance
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  • some economists predict it will be years, not months, before employees regain any semblance of bargaining power
  • this recession's unusual ferocity has accelerated trends—including offshoring, automation, the decline of labor unions' influence, new management techniques, and regulatory changes
  • forecast for the next five to 10 years: more of the same, with paltry pay gains, worsening working conditions, and little job security. Right on up to the C-suite, more jobs will be freelance and temporary, and even seemingly permanent positions will be at greater risk
  • We're all temps now.
  • the brutal recession has prompted more companies to create just-in-time labor forces that can be turned on and off like a spigot
  • Employers are trying to get rid of all fixed costs
  • Everything is variable
  • people who graduated from college in a recession earn 2.5% less than if they had graduated in more prosperous times, research has shown
  • Diminishing job security is also widening the gap between the highest- and lowest-paid workers. At the top, people with sought-after skills can earn more by jumping from assignment to assignment than they can by sticking with one company. But for the least educated, who have no special skills to sell, the new deal for labor offers nothing but downside.
  • All the employees had just stopped working
Cathy Bogaart

The Little Nano that Could - 0 views

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nanotechnology physical sciences clients & tenants Vive Nano

shared by Cathy Bogaart on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Assunta Krehl on 21 Jan 10
     
    Vive Nano receives accolades for its clean tech approach. Its appeal is in its business model: to develop new processes and company-specific nanoparticles, then lease out their know-how to established companies who have both their own distribution networks and capability to deal with the various national regulatory hurdles that a small firm could never hope to manage.
  • Cathy Bogaart on 21 Jan 10
     
    MaRS client and Toronto nanotechnology upstart Vive Nano is featured in Yonge Street magazine as a good news story for innovative business in TO.
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