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Canada's Unknown CEO: Tony Lacavera (Wind Mobile, 2006)(torontolife.com)
2 points by cal5k 16y ago|0 comments
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by cal5k 16y ago
Good think foreign investors are! I've seen quite a bit of interest recently actually from investors in the Middle East - a personal friend was searching for biotech funding for years and is days away from closing a major deal with a middle
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by cal5k 16y ago
Karamdeep, I notice you're an Ivey grad - very cool, so am I. Next time you're in Toronto I'd love to chat - I write quite a bit on Canadian entrepreneurship. A notable example: http://www.myplanetdigital.com/digital_strategy/blog/why-can.
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by cal5k 16y ago
They've already proven their business model, have tons of customers, are making a profit, and have a plan for scaling their business. This is the perfect time to take investment - regardless of whether they were bootstrapped to this point.
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by cal5k 16y ago
This also says a lot about the Canadian VC industry - it's small and risk-averse. It's a real problem and one that I'm in the early stages of trying to tackle. I'm a big believer that Canada can become a hotbed of tech innovation and startu
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by cal5k 16y ago
Not a single Canadian VC in the bunch. A pretty good illustration of what's wrong with Canada's VC industry... it doesn't exist! ;-)
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by cal5k 16y ago
As a Canadian, I'm actually a little appalled by this. Toronto and Vancouver are hotbeds for gaming, are fast becoming thriving startup communities, and need smart, motivated entrepreneurs more than ever... why can't Mr. Wong stick around a
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Why Canadian Tech Entrepreneurs Need to Man/Woman Up(myplanetdigital.com)
11 points by cal5k 16y ago|1 comments
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by cal5k 16y ago
I think this begs this question: How on EARTH has Apture convinced so many companies that yes, cluttering up your site with a useless bar is a great idea?
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by cal5k 16y ago
Very interesting. I think loss aversion will turn out to be just as prevalent for self-professed entrepreneurs as for the general population, if not more so.
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by cal5k 16y ago
Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx, took the last $5000 in the company's bank account to Vegas so they could afford to make the ~$30k fuel payment they needed to stay in business. Turned out pretty well for him ;-)
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by cal5k 16y ago
It was basic frustrations like this that caused us to switch as well. In particular, it with the issue with tasks lists - we used Basecamp and Highrise, and even though the feature request has been made regularly for the last 4 years, there
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by cal5k 16y ago
Wow! Thanks :-) This is exactly what I was looking for. So much nostalgia for the years spent trying to code a killer text-based game in QBASIC... tear
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by cal5k 16y ago
Thanks for the suggestion :-) I had a ton of experience with C and Java back when I was in high school and somewhat through university, but after I finished university I fell out of it. Your book looks like a great introduction for a comple
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by cal5k 16y ago
lionheart, are you secretly me?
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by cal5k 16y ago
I love the concept - is there anything like this for Python?
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by cal5k 16y ago
He did state that their approach was by no means the only one. However, they have been remarkably successful at it...
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Ask HN: What sources do you use for forecasting trends?
2 points by cal5k 16y ago|1 comments
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by cal5k 16y ago
I think this happens with surgeons as well. About two years ago my doctor found nodules on my thyroid... blood tests revealed Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. After a series of ultrasounds, radioactive iodine uptake tests, and needle biopsies, I wa
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by cal5k 16y ago
This is the primary reason I left reddit for HN many moons ago.
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Initial investigatory research for glacier-human communication techniques(vimeo.com)
1 points by cal5k 16y ago|0 comments
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Can anyone explain the appeal of 7" tablets?
1 points by cal5k 16y ago|2 comments
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by cal5k 16y ago
Just like models and actors have built entire careers (and industries, in fact) on just standing around and pretending to do things? Tom Peters does not pretend to be a hacker. Hackers are not the only sort of people in the world. Peter Dia
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by cal5k 16y ago
It's called an ad hominem argument, and it's one of the many well-known logical fallacies. For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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by cal5k 16y ago
It's odd, because I don't get the same sentiment from reading the two articles you've cited (I haven't read the book). Essentially, you're upset that the man's predictions have often been wrong. Big whup. Show me one billionaire or nobel pr
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by cal5k 16y ago
That's silly. The vast majority of technological innovations still come out of the US. So whatever it is you're doing poorly, the rest of the world is clearly doing that much worse.
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Why good companies choose freedom(myplanetdigital.com)
4 points by cal5k 16y ago|0 comments
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by cal5k 16y ago
Actually, the problem with economics is that it is not enough like psychology. Psychologists generally perform experiments before concocting theories (or at least they conduct them to confirm or invalidate them), whereas economists genera
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by cal5k 16y ago
Toronto, ON. Myplanet (www.myplanetdigital.com) Job title: Emperor. (we don't have job titles) Who you are: Brilliant software developer with an iron grasp on PHP. A tinkerer of the highest order. Bonus points for other languages/frameworks
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by cal5k 16y ago
I left reddit for Hacker News as soon as I discovered it. Aside from the excessive Paul Graham worship (which I suppose is excusable considering this is a Y Combinator experiment), it is a veritable oasis of reasonable, rational people inte

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