Advice on VC Presentations

March 4, 2005

Via Paul Kedrosky, some advice on your presentation to VC’s.  A quote: My First Rule with respect to doing venture pitches (whether in business plan competitions or to venture folks) is to put together a presentation that you like, then cut the number of slides in half and reverse the order. That is admittedly glib, […]

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New Canadian Weather Computer Technology

March 3, 2005

The Globe reports on new computing technology now being deployed by Environment Canada to aid in weather forecasting.  The new technology consists of both a new IBM supercomputer and a new processing technology.  Quotes: To help improve the accuracy of its forecasts, the Meteorological Service of Canada plans to start using a new processing technology […]

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Starwood Hotels and Privacy

March 3, 2005

I recently stayed at a Starwood Hotel in New York – I gave them my e-mail address at registration, and today they sent me a follow up e-mail asking me if I want to receive e-mail notices of future promotions.  Significantly, they said: This is a one-time message from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. […]

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Legal Ethics Nightmare in B.C.

March 3, 2005

The National Post is running a story on the Strother case in BC – the Court of Appeal has reversed a trial decision and ordered Robert Strother, a former tax partner of Davis & Co., to pay a former client as much as $32-million received in a business relationship with a competing client.  Quotes: As […]

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Online Medical House Calls

March 3, 2005

The NYT has a story on the growth in online medical advice as doctors begin to deliver it via email and dedicated online messaging systems. Is this the first step towards medical outsourcing?  Once the initial office visit is done, and all records are electronic, can follow-up advice be provided from Bangalore as easily as […]

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Great Advance Work From the Virgin Mobile Team

March 2, 2005

Sir Richard Branson picked up on the celphone number portability issue in remarks earlier today launching Virgin Mobile in Canada.  Quotes: Sir Richard Branson launched Virgin Mobile’s wireless service in Canada with characteristic flair. Dressed as a superhero out to rescue wireless customers, he whizzed down a line from a downtown Toronto building yesterday and […]

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The End of Advertising as We Know It?

March 2, 2005

Bob Liodice of the Association of National Advertisers has blogged on the death of TV by advertising in a post titled "Who’s Killing Television?"  It’s a thought that has weighing on my mind for ages now, but not just about TV.  Advertising is everywhere, spam is everywhere, telemarketing calls reach you everywhere – everything is […]

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Blogs Keep Customers Coming Back

March 1, 2005

The WSJ (paid sub. required) has a story today on blogs as tools to increase customer retention and otherwise deepen the relationship.  Quote: When GreenCine Inc. launched an online journal two years ago, the San Francisco online DVD-rental company hoped that a steady diet of film reviews, festival dispatches and filmmaker interviews would energize its […]

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More on Data Mining

March 1, 2005

Barrie McKenna picked up the ChoicePoint story in the Globe yesterday.  Quote: Major consumer credit rating agencies, such as Equifax, are covered by strict privacy laws in both Canada and the United States. But the dozens of companies that buy and sell consumer information and resell it to corporate and government clients in the United […]

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Simplifying Web Checkouts

February 28, 2005

The NYT has an interesting story on e-commerce site architecture designed to optimize customer checkout rates.

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Summary of Incidents Cataloged on PIPEDA and Canadian Privacy Law

February 27, 2005

David Fraser has an excellent post today cataloguing recent incidents related to inappropriate release of personal information.  Good grief it’s a long list. It’s a vivid reminder of how often this happens and, apropos of recent events, should be especially timely.  Money quote: Inadequate security of personal information is the one practice that is the […]

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How to Lose Your Customers’ Trust, Lesson #1

February 27, 2005

Via BoingBoing, how to lose your customers one heartbeat after they have a credible alternative to what you do for them: Paying Canadian teclo an extra $50 makes IRC and ftp secure, somehow Simon sez, "It was reported in Vancouver that Canadian telecom giant Telus has outlawed home servers for its customers with residential highspeed […]

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