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  • New Arctic Monkeys

    Their new album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, has leaked. Early reviews are very positive.
    Here’s a b-side to the lead single from the album. The track’s titled Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend and features the most excellent Dizzee Rascal.

  • Book Admin Cont’d

    I’m taking a bit of heat via email for the list of initiatives when managing a turnaround included in my review of Hardball.
    Specifically, people have taken issue with these two points:
    - Don’t allow people to identify obstacles to change without also proposing solutions to overcome them
    - Don’t tolerate failure to deliver more than once
    Now, […]

  • Fill in the Blank: On Entrepreneurship in Canada

    The Council on Competitiveness has released a report on US Entrepreneurship titled Where America Stands: Entrepreneurship [pdf].
    An interesting and short read.

    Fill in the blank:
    Given the low cost/low time required to start a business in Canada, Canada’s level of entrepreneurship is especially ______________.
    [via MaRS Blog]

  • Social Enterprise in Vancouver

    While we were in Vancouver we were fortunate enough to meet with a number of people heavily involved in BC’s social enterprise community.
    I continue to be fascinated with the funding continuum that is emerging in the province to support social enterprise. Mark and I were fortunate enough to spend time with David LePage from […]

April

This is the archive for April, 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:

    These are the people in my neighborhood: