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What’s Broken About the Vancouver Startup Scene?

As some of you know, I have experienced some recent [ahem] frustration while trying to build a technology business in Vancouver. I experienced some catharsis last night reading Kevin Curry’s (is he a real person?) comments on the Vancouver startup scene over at...

Network Solutions registers the domain names you search for…

Readers of this blog and my old mailing list know that I am no big fan of Network Solutions and its long history of anti-competitive and generally dirty business practises. From YCombinator comes this nugget about Network Solutions, exploiting a loophole extended by...

Microsoft’s Hiring…

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020726/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_dc_13 Microsoft to Pump Up R&D, Hire 5,000 Thu Jul 25,11:43 PM ET By Reed Stevenson REDMOND, Wash. (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it would boost spending on...

FW: Hailstorm dead

Last post today I promise.. —— Forwarded Message From: “Jim Whitehead” Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:36:11 -0700 To: “FoRK” Subject: Hailstorm dead Looks like Hailstorm has failed to be adopted, and is dead in it current form. Perhaps...

FW: Good Article….Post Bubble Silicon Valley Realities

—— Forwarded Message From: Wilson Zehr Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:43:40 -0800 To: ‘Ian Andrew Bell’ Subject: FW: Good Article….Post Bubble Silicon Valley Realities Silicon Valley Reboots The dot-com bust was bad for Wall Street, but it was...