Imagine this: you’re just another tin-pot dictator cruelly and ineptly mismanaging your petro-state when you wake up one day to find several thousand US Marines floating off your coastline because the US President raped teenage girls on his buddy’s private island a...
It’s clear that Canada’s conservatives are anxious to criticize Mark Carney’s track record: his Undergrad degree at Harvard; his Masters and PhD theses at Oxford. They even question his time at Goldman Sachs or the Bank Of Canada, of which he...
Hamas are obviously terrorists. Terrorism is most successful when it provokes states to lash out in anger and commit atrocities against the oppressed peoples those terrorists claim to represent. 9/11 was successful for Al Qaeda not because of the 3000 killed in NY,...
Reprinted here without permission, my father Dennis Bell’s 1972 article (impossible to find online in its unabridged form) which was heralded as Canadian Press’ Story of the Year in 1972, and was the source of some controversy. Dad spent a lot of time in...
Hello world, let me introduce you to Canada’s deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland. The daughter of a #Ukrainian immigrant, she speaks 5 languages (including Russian and Ukrainian) and has a lot of, erm, experience dealing with Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia. She...
Yesterday, I believe I coined the term “Conflict Marketing” on Twitter. I’ve been watching with interest as the Basecamp creators have waged war against the Apple App Store over the principle of app approval. Basecamp’s corporate entity 37...
For Auth0 (now OKTA) I wrote and produced a short documentary featuring one of the 147 million victims of the Equifax identity breach in 2017. Imagine this story repeating itself 147 million...
For much of the 1990s and 2000s I argued against the US and Canadian federal governments taking the opportunity to exert influence in the development of the web, internet, and realtime technologies. Recently I was invited to speak @ UBC on the topic in a debate of...
Last week I gave a quick presentation at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on how (and when) to pitch your Startup, giving many of these students their first look at the process of pitching investors in the Angel and Venture community on their next killer idea....
Originally published @ PROFIT. Famed UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden once said, “Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” A considerable body of social science research has explored the positive impacts of athletics, in particular team sports, from youth into...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
