I have been following the municipal wifi market over the last year following an investment I made in RoamAD, a wireless infrastructure vendor.
Quebec, as with Canada in general, has a strong wireless history (congratulations Mr. Sirois !) and it is still being driven today by VC’s such as Acta Wireless, Trio Capital and Garage Canada [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Montreal Wifi Network
February 23, 2007 – 9:54 pm
Penny Stocks
February 23, 2007 – 9:53 pm
I am new to the world of penny stocks but have been trying to educate myself on it for a few reasons.
Firstly, I invested in a company that was not a penny stock when it IPO’ed but soon became one !! (fortunately I “doubled down” and am now back in the black); secondly, one friend [...]
A Members Club in Montreal
February 23, 2007 – 9:16 pm
Another project I’ve been working on is a Private Members club. I had looked into this type of place when I was in Japan and actually had some meetings in London with Nick Jones, the owner of Soho House, a members club in London and a members hotel in New York, to discuss setting one [...]
Mortgages & Securitisation
February 23, 2007 – 9:15 pm
I am a big fan of securitisation. It’s only been around since the 70’s but annually there is now a 3-4 trillion dollar market in securitised products. The major securitisations deal with things like residential mortgages and credit card receivables, but there have been some much more exotic securitisations such as David Bowies record royalties [...]
Unorganisation
February 23, 2007 – 9:11 pm
In the pre-blog days a good friend of mine, Simon Buckingham, the founder and CEO of Mobile Streams, used to have a site called unorg.net (or maybe unorg.com). It espoused on his philosophy of how an organisation did not necessarily have to be “organised” and that there was an alternative structure for a company … [...]