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  • Engaged ______

    From an article on engaged philanthropy: “with engagement comes ownership, with ownership comes commitment”.
    But, really, fill in the blank with anything and it still holds up.

  • Dinner With Howard & Ellen

    Last night I had a fantastic meal with Howard and Ellen Lindzon in Toronto at a wonderful Italian restaurant on Eglington. The internet is such a wonderful tool for making and strengthening connections and friendships - I’ve met them only once before at dinner about a year ago and have only exchanged emails and […]

  • Innovation Night II Follow-up

    Last Tuesday at Philthy McNasty’s off of Brant the diverse innovation occurring within the Golden Horseshoe region was celebrated. The turn-out was once again stellar and the buzz at the end of the evening when the discussions took place was infectious. I heard back from all 16 presenters, I think, saying that they received […]

  • 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 […]

General

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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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