Archive for the ‘Small Business’ Category.
2009-09-30, 19:25
A few friends and I were talking about network monitoring last week. We’d all lived through the pain and anguish of the evolution of the network monitoring process. We had nightmares of routers linking large corporate clients not being visible on monitored circuits and dreading the late night call “my circuit is down!”. From the early days of hand configuring routers, installing monitoring tools that did not interconnect, to cascading network failures. It was so much fun!
Continue reading ‘Network Monitoring—Plug and Pay’ »
2009-09-14, 19:28
In years of completing due diligence activities with small companies we have run into a number of situations where rapidly growing companies have spent more time on growth and less time on ensuring that they are complying with the rules of software use and licensing. It’s an expensive strategy as twelve companies recently found out.
Continue reading ‘Company Software Use Legit?’ »
2009-08-12, 06:12
In a recent press release the Canadian Venture Capital Association in what appears to be another volley of concern to the federal government has again chronicled the precipitous fall in investment levels in Canada in the second quarter.
Continue reading ‘Venture Funding Valley’ »
2009-05-27, 21:34
Finally some good news on the horizon for small tech firms in Canada. Seems the Federal Government is going to front, at the least the seed money, for a new fund that will be managed by Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).
Continue reading ‘Get BDC Cash PDQ’ »
2009-05-14, 19:00
If you have read any of our VC rants in the past you know we feel that venture funding in the telecom and communications sectors have dwindled down to nothing short of a drip feed.
Continue reading ‘US - Canada Venturing?’ »
2009-05-12, 11:18
A recent outing at the Ivey School of Business refreshed my opinion of the some of the great things we ought to be doing with more of our students.
Continue reading ‘Innovation Inspiration’ »
2009-05-07, 06:05
Two intersecting ideas came across my workspace yesterday. Both have significance for those of us interested in the wide world of the web and how we might present our ideas there.
Continue reading ‘To Twitter?’ »
2009-05-05, 07:02
I’ve believed for a number of years that Canada, an historical innovator in the telecom sector (among others), has been falling behind in advancing it’s position. It seems I am not alone in this thinking.
Continue reading ‘Innovation Introspection’ »
2009-03-12, 07:08
Think |
Act
One in a series of Leadership Articles to cause you to think and perhaps to act.
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Managing the space between sales and a delivery organization has it’s unique challenges. Over the many years I’ve walked in that somewhat rough ground I’ve learned a thing or two about how to manage the process and in doing so, myself.
Continue reading ‘Sales to Services handoff’ »
2009-03-05, 20:55
In our regular daily read of various articles in the world of telephony we came across in interesting article that prompted some discussion with a few colleagues. The news article at TelephonyOnline titled “Ciena CEO: top carriers now budgeting “monthly”” caused us no end of banter. Many of us had worked in carriers who generally had tight controls on spending and significant pressure on managing within a designated budget.
Continue reading ‘Budget Fudget’ »
