In May 2020, I participated in a weekend game hackathon and created a clone of my favourite arcade game, Williams Defender, for my forty year old 8-bit Commodore PET computer. Programming the game was a tribute to Chuck Peddle, the inventor of the 6502 processor who had recently passed away…
It has been my tradition for the last five or six years to spend some time looking backwards and forwards at trends shaping the Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) venture capital and startup sector here in Canada.
A review of my 2020 predictions is here (I scored 13 out of…
At the beginning of each year, I try to spend some time looking backwards and forwards at trends shaping the Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) startup sector here in Canada. My year-ago review of my 2019 predictions is here (I scored 9 out of 16), and my guesses as to…
Five years ago today I was at the New York Stock Exchange to witness the Initial Public Offering and first day of trading of Shopify. For about 18 months prior to the IPO, I was fortunate enough to have been involved with the company as the OMERS Ventures board observer…
In the past I participated in an annual weekend game programming jam here in Toronto called TOJam. An amazing event where incredible gamers, coders, artists, etc create video games from scratch over a long-weekend. …
In my review of 2019, we saw that 2019 was a record year for both new venture funding and exits of Canadian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies. Some guesses for 2020:
Financing Predictions
Prediction 1. For this year, I believe that global political uncertainty and the Softbank hangover effect…
It is mid-year and I have a bit of recharging time before I start my new role at Wittington Investments, so I thought I’d review how my Canadian technology startup predictions from the beginning of 2019 are shaping up. …
