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  • Innovation Night II

    The first Innovation Night was a success, bringing together over 100 people from the Golden Horseshoe region with a shared passion for innovation.
    Eighteen presenters received valuable feedback and guidance on their nascent business ideas from some of the region’s brightest business minds.
    We’re holding a second Innovation Night at Philthy McNasty’s (upstairs), 1250 Brant Street, […]

  • The Importance Of Buzz Words

    I used to dislike buzz words, believing that they were tools used to support weak/sparse arguements.
    While reading the Globe this weekend I came across an article on the London 2012 Olympic logo.

    Agreeing with the author’s take on the logo (eww) I found myself taking issue with his assault on a buzz word used […]

  • Here’s to Kent Newsome

    Kent, the hardest working man in the blogosphere, is running an experiment to help rebuild his reading list.
    I was included in the experiment thanks to a recommendation from Earl.
    Kent, you’re being a bit too kind when you say that I’ve been blogging “intermittently” lately. I did appreciate the subtle nudge though. Between work and […]

  • Gates’ Excellent Commencement

    Bill Gates gave an excellent commencement speech at Harvard, touching on themes of why I’m optimistic. It’s inspiring and worth the read.
    “The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But […]

  • Wii: A Hidden Love

    In my process of tracking down a few links for a post on introducing ideas in an attention driven world I came across a post by Mark Pincus where he takes issue with Fred Wilson’s ruminations on the future of media.
    In the post Mark asks/answers:
    how many times do you ever watch a […]

June

This is the archive for June, 2007.

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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: