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Rebuilding old habits
I didn’t write a personal blog post in 2014. My last post was written May 8, 2013. I wrote a few posts on StartupNorth but generally it was a quiet year. The most engaged post I wrote in 2014 was “One...
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Bottom up healthcare
Fred Wilson wrote about his thoughts on what is going to happen in tech in 2015. I was struck by his post on “the pressure of real patient centered healthcare” emerging from “the smartphone becoming...
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Questions for 2015
Benedict Evans posted the questions he’d like answered in 2015 and in mobile with the platform wars over. Here are some of the questions I’d expect to see answered in 2015 for Canada and Canadian...
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A Golden Age for Indie Business
“the mainstream startup narrative is owned by VC backed startups who’s success and ambition are often measured by the amount of capital they’ve raise. That’s a fine narrative, but not the only one.” –...
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Building Media Empires
Is it possible to build a new Canadian media empire? Techvibes MobileSyrup, BetaKit, InsideTimmies Yummy Mummy Club BlogTO Vice (Does Vice Media still count as Canadian? Vice was founded in Montreal in...
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The local product design economy
Update: I changed the verb acquiring to joining. A lot of the chatter has been about how this is not an acquisition. And I agree. It is not. As the post states at the top, TeehanLax is shutting down....
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Trying to understand the marketing technology landscape
Scott Brinker has published his 2015 Marketing Technology Landscape. The landscape is shocking/impressive. It is an almost 2 fold increase in the number of companies from the 2014 landscape....
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Stories about a future worth creating
Updated: Adding Tobias van Schneider’s The Agency is Dead, Long Live the Agency and Ben Cline’s Design Studios are Not Going Away to list of The conversation around the shutting down of TeehanLax has...
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Prototyping science fiction
“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.” – Dennis Gabor Tiago Forte wrote a great piece about “What I Learned About the Future by Reading 100 Science Fiction Books“. The article...
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Do Great Work, Repeat
The title is from Greg Story‘s article The Future of the Digital Design Agency in the United States. I have been thinking about design firms.We can call them agencies, studios, evolutionary...
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