Well, well….a Canadian VC has a Blog
You knew it had to be a matter of time before a major Canadian VC got jiggy about his new blogging thing-a-jig! BrightSpark, which does as much early-stage investing as any Canadian VC, has launched its own blog (hat tip to Alec Saunders). Among Mark Skapinker's first posts is one on why Canadian software developers are so great. Mark (and BrightSpark partner Tony Davis), if you really focus, you coujld become the North of the Border version of Fred Wilson or Brad Feld! In any event, welcome to the blogosphere. For any Canadian VC already blogging away, my apologies - please let me know where you can be found.
Update: My bad on not pointing out that Rick Segal, a principal with Toronto-based VC J.L. Albright, has been an active blogger. That said, Rick has his own blog as opposed to writing for a J.L. Albright blog.
April 19th, 2006 at 9:24 am
What about Rick Segal's Post Money Value? Blogging since Feb 2005.
http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/
April 19th, 2006 at 9:29 am
As to were he can be found… how about on a panel @ Mesh… moderated by ah, well YOU.
Sorry, couldn't resist
April 19th, 2006 at 9:43 am
There are some smaller VC's in Ottawa blogging. I can't remember names (about a year ago I cut back my VC blog reading), but I'm sure they're around.
April 19th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Hi Mark,
Hmm.. I don't really see the difference between blogging for JLA specifically on a specific JLA site vs. me doing it on a typepad account and pointing out I'm a VC.
And given I'm the newbie in all of this VC world, I'll let Mark and Tony take on Brad and Fred; seems like a fair fight, eh?
April 19th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Brightspark still needs to work on their blog. I posted a comment to one of their entries and it has yet to appear (several hours later). I assume they did not like the content…which was not rude or inappropriate…just critical of their viewpoint / analysis. Maybe they have not yet reviewed the comment. Either way, this lack of transparency or half hearted effort to maintain the blog is a big problem if they wish to have any credibility.