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  • 5 Quick Things

    1) I participated in a fantasy baseball league that recently wrapped up. In the end the commish, Adam Kane, ended up winning with Bill Rice taking second. Despite competition from Ian, Adam, Jake, Eric, Brendan, Frank, and others I was able to capture a surprise third place finish.

    In a cool move we agreed to […]

  • Kiva: An Update

    Just over a year ago I made my first investment into Kiva. In the initial post I said I made the first small investment to familiarize myself with the process before getting further involved. Well, I felt comfortable enough shortly after to give again and have loved all of my interactions with the group. […]

  • I’m Joining AdaptiveBlue

    On September 24th I’m officially joining AdaptiveBlue. Why?
    It’s not because the semantic web is one of the biggest emerging web trends (or even because The Economist is interested in semantic web). It’s not because the company’s service is a recommended Firefox plug-in, with more than 900,000 downloads. It’s not because Alex, the founder […]

  • Quote of the Day

    “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    - Andre Gide (via Chartreuse)

  • Social Proprioception

    Social proprioception. It’s the best term I’ve come across for describing the impact that status updating is having on my life.
    Clive Thompson, in a June Wired article, penned the term, capturing the benefit nicely:
    When I see that my friend Misha is “waiting at Genius Bar to send my MacBook to the shop,” that’s not […]

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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.

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