Author Archives: Thomas Purves

CaseCamp is coming again

Photo: CaseCamp2 Toronto Marketing superstar Eli Singer is at it again. CaseCamp is coming back to Toronto. Details. Tuesday, January 23rd The Fifth Club 225 Richmond Street West, 416-979-3000 6:00 – doors open 6:45 – the first case begins If … Continue reading

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TVG Breakfast, Term Sheets and Land Mines

mark mcqueenIt was the best TVG event that I’ve seen yet. At least if you dig(g) startup finance. Rick Segal brought together Mark McQueen (Venture [debt] financer) and Suzanne Dingwall Williams (Venture Law Line) to talk about Venture Debt the traps and pitfalls of termsheets.

What I learned, piles of notes after the jump… Continue reading

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What’s a wiki good for? not open-ended problems.

Imagine using a wiki and the collective editing of a whole community to write the perfect love poem. Of course you couldn’t. For some types of problems, adding more contributors does enhance the output. This is one topic of conversation … Continue reading

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