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  • Looking for Lessons.

    A chapter in the story of me (via Fred):
    “I went through a period where I wrote about YouTube a lot. It was fascinating to me to watch web video take off and the lessons we all learned from YouTube’s success were important. After YouTube was purchased by Google, I kind of lost interest. I felt […]

  • Who Makes You Think (Update # 1)

    A bunch of replies to my Who Makes You Think plea for advice and support. I plugged all recommendations into my reader and have followed all sites since. There were some good finds and in the spirit of sharing/filtering I’ll provide updates on which blogs deserve to remain.
    Jim Parker recommended two great reads - an […]

  • Social Enterprise Cont’d

    I forget to include an important piece of info in my last post on social enterprise.
    In the latest Harvard Business Review, on, among other things, Breakthrough Ideas for 2007, there’s an article titled “Cocreating Business’s New Social Compact” which explores the shrinking distance between enterprises and social organizations (reasons for, benefits of, …).
    Another sign […]

  • Social Enterprise

    The conference in BC last week was inspiring for so many reasons. The keynotes were good, the seminars educational, and the conversations… they were incredible.

    As my plane headed east from YVR I kept coming back to the thought that social enterprises are going to change the world.

  • In LA

    I’m in LA on business for the next little bit. Open to suggestions on what to do/where to eat.
    Back in Hamilton it’s -24C with the wind chill. Today, in LA, it was 29C. Nice.

February

This is the archive for February, 2007.

Welcome to the conversation.

Hi, I'm Fraser and this is my personal site where I write about the things I'm interested in: start-up strategy, the web, music, and life.

My days are spent commercializing emerging technologies. Currently I'm helping to deliver the promise of semantic web to the consumer market at AdaptiveBlue. Previously I was at Trivaris, a Canadian seed stage investment firm.

I am a co-founder of Innovation Night, a community driven event supporting entrepreneurship in Canadian and US cities.

Here's what I'm doing right now:

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