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by Michael Tippett
Early days of NowPublic, before The Arab Spring
"The tool that is redefining news is the cellphone."
"The Crowd Sourcerer", 2006
Vancouver Startup Weekend
Made in Vancouver
World Economic Forum, Eurasian Media Forum, Almaty Kazakhstan
Interviewing Eric McLuhan
Smart Risks & Startups Archive
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You’re Invited to the Vancouver Startup Weekend Alumni Reunion
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Where Good Ideas Come From
If Johnson is right that ‘chance favours the connected mind’ then the Internet is more important than we ever imagined. And if you want to keep the Internet free make…
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Mayor to support motion for mobile ‘City App’
Great initiative from Andrea Reimer and The Mayor: Mayor Gregor Robertson will be supporting a Council motion next week to develop a mobile ‘City App,’ which would increase access…
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Shocker! Patch to Begin Layoffs
I’ve said from the get go that AOL’s Patch was doomed. The implosion begins: Patch has implemented a new “One Team One Goal” strategy, with a budget that effectively…
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Learn About Canada’s SOPA At OpenMedia. The Free Internet Is At Stake
SOPA like legislation will crush innovation in digital media. If Canadian’s want to participate in the economy of the future this kind of thing cannot happen. This write…
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The Emotional Roller Coaster of Startup Life
This graph gets a lot of attention in startup conversations but it’s important for anyone working in a new company to understand it and know where you are on the…
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Startup City Mayor
Thanks to The Mayor for supporting the Made in Vancouver initiative. Ayoudo is working with the city and others to make this happen. Here’s part of the release from…
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Ayoudo Team in The Province Today
The Province wrote about Ayoudo and our support for Made in Vancouver: If Internet startup companies are the new band, and entrepreneurs the new rock stars — as Vancouver…
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Ayoudo : the Evolution of Social Media
Today in Vancouver we’re launching Ayoudo. It’s a project I’ve been working on with a great team for the last 6 months. Check it out and let me know what…
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Extreme Startups Launches Accelerator With $7 Million In Funding From Top Canadian VCs
Great to see another Canadian accelerator get some cash: Not to be outdone by its southern neighbor, Canada has been hard at work on its own fleet of tech…
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Is Vancouver Becoming a Social News Hub?
It was nearly a decade ago that I started thinking about how camera phones and blogs were going to change the news business. Those thoughts eventually turned into NowPublic and…
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This Poodle is Defending Your Internet Freedom
Image(810) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
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Greenpeace joins Wikipedia in Internet Blackout
Nice to see Greenpeace defending the information environment too. Props. In the history book of bad ideas, the concept of giving corporations the right to censor the Internet has…
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A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The Mayor-Entrepreneur | TechCrunch
From today’s TechCrunch: The ingredients for a successful startup and a successful city are remarkably similar. You need to build stuff that people want. You need to attract quality…
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FORGET STOCKS AND BONDS: Art Has Been Crushing Equities Over The Last Decade
You know how there are those people in the world who think that we should shut down all the classes in school that aren’t math and engineering because those…
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AOL Media Business Nearly Worthless Despite Spending 2 Billion on Acquisitions
I’ve got into many arguments with people over the years about the viability of hyperlocal citizen media. My view is that the numbers just don’t make sense if…
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6 Part Series in Vancouver Sun about GrowLab
Scott Simpson came down to Silicon Valley with the GrowLab Team and lived to tell about it. His 6-part series in The Vancouver Sun begins like this: SILICON…
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Richard Branson Explains Why He Is The Opposite Of Steve Jobs
Richard Branson on management: I devote most of my time to activities like The Elders [A South-African NGO], but I make it a point to take care of…
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European CEO calls for ban on email
Has email become a drag on productivity? The CEO of a large European-based tech firm hates email and wants his 74,000 employees in 42 countries to stop using…
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Where do entrepreneurs get their money?
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Vancouver Startup Weekend: The Movie
Vancouver Startup Weekend: The Movie.
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54 hours until Vancouver Startup Weekend
Hope to see ya’ll real soon. .
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What do we really know about Gregor Robertson?
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CRAMER: Groupons An “Engineered” IPO
CRAMER: Groupons An “Engineered” IPO — Buy It On The Deal And Then Flip It Instantly.
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The Steve Jobs Mantra : Passion Before Profits
Why do people think it’s odd that Steve Jobs was a hippie, did LSD and listened to Dylan – and yet was successful? It’s funny that people think…
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Steve Jobs’s Biographer on “60 Minutes” [VIDEO]
WATCH: Steve Jobs’s Biographer on “60 Minutes” [VIDEO].
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Steve Jobs on Education
In a conversation with Barack Obama, Steve Jobs reportedly gave the following advice: Jobs also said teachers’ unions “crippled” the education system in the United States. Among his…
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Computer Talent : More Artist and Scientist
Good coders are more like artists than scientists. Check out this piece from Fast Company.
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What Occupy Wall Street Means to the Smartest Money in Startups
The relationship that the startup world has to corporations, unions and the Occupy Wall Street crowd is complex. As corporate revolutionaries, entrepreneurs share a desire to change the world…
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So cool. GrowLab company Ecquire featured on front page of Report on Business
As we’ve seen at GrowLab, smart investment in the startup ecology can work. A story in The Globe today features one of our companies and talks about how they moved…