I have been receiving a weekly newsletter from Sam Perera at Noverra Capital Partners which is – from what I can tell – a boutique investment bank with a small fund to make acquisitions with offices in Toronto and Vancouver.  They look to be a cross between a Capital West and Yellow Point Equity Partners […]

Did you know that today is Cyber Monday?  Came across a few articles today that claim today is the day with the highest online purchases of the year.  What I found most interesting about this was that the concept of Cyber Monday was ‘created’ in 2005 by the National Retail Federation  after they noticed a […]

Found a great slideshare contributor in David Teten who is the managing partner of VC firm ff Venture Partners and co-author of “The Virtual Handshake: Opening doors and closing deals online”.  Looks to be a great source of information and insight on the online trends with respect to VC/PE investing…. … but I digress.  David […]

I am going to use this blog as a means to learn more about trends in the capital markets and their use of social media and online communities.  My gut reaction in thinking about this is that this world is based on personal relationships and connections and online marketing can’t really play a major role.  […]

I decided to time travel for my book review and read Permission Marketing by Seth Godin which was written in 1999.  I thought it would be interesting to look at the world from the perspective of someone who was immersed in online marketing at a time when I personally did not have an email address […]