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“Government doesn’t start companies,â€Â , CEO of , told bookmark php us a little while back. “Individuals do.â€
Nonetheless, government does have an important role to play in the value chain of bringing technology to market. This is particularly true at the regional and municipal level, where local economic development agencies attempt to attract anchor employers and/or support the growth of home-grown technology ventures with programs and incentives funded by the local tax base and higher levels of government. (We will explore the broader role of government in a future post.)
These efforts, however, raise a few fundamental questions:
- What has proven to be the most effective way for an economic development agency to support a strong and sustainable technology sector in its region?
- Is it possible for an organization funded by the public purse and influenced by the bureaucratic culture of government to keep its finger on the pulse of a dynamic, even volatile, technology market?
- How does a startup ensure a bookmark php local economic development agency is capable of providing the timely and relevant support it needs to validate its market opportunity, secure sources of funding and achieve market penetration?
(Please share your thoughts on any of these points. This is a subject area far larger than the confines of this modest post.)
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As explores in his book, Making Technology bookmark php Happen, there are two general approaches to building a local technology hub:
- A grow-your-own strategy, in which the emphasis is on creating and growing local companies; and
- An importation strategy, in which the emphasis is on attracting branch plants and branch offices of existing companies that are headquartered elsewhere.
Doyle argues that the importation approach seldom works. The people who make the decision to locate a facility in a specific municipality make these decisions based on factors that cannot be influenced by the kind of salesmanship practiced by most economic development agencies. He cites several examples in the U.S. where large technology companies made their location decisions based on the level of entrepreneurial activity and supporting infrastructure available in the winning community, rather than the efforts of economic development officers to woo them.
In other words, it was communities with the entrepreneurial savvy and robust ecosystem to support a bookmark php grow-your-own strategy that attracted the most interest.
However, moving ahead with either, or a combination of both, of these strategies, is not the end of the discussion. Far from it. As we explored in the previous post, Silicon Valley is arguably the hotbed of innovation that startups must tap into in today’s recession weary global economy to obtain what they need to bring technology to market.
Too much bread, too little peanut butter?
It is hardly practical, or desirable, for most startups to pull up stakes and relocate to California, despite the preference among many Valley VCs that their portfolio companies do so. What these startups require is help finding the resources crucial to their success that lie beyond their own backyard. But many organizations involved in startup incubation at the local level are not in a position to provide this.
“Often, the peanut butter gets spread too thin,†said , managing partner of and co-founder of the . “Too many smaller organizations don’t have truly world-class people running the show who understand what it is to be competitive on a global stage. If an incubator is 18 months behind what is going on in Silicon Valley, its companies are not going to succeed. It’s just spinning its wheels.â€
Instead, he applauds the best-of-breed models that have emerged in Canada, such as in Toronto and in Vancouver. [Update: Bootup Labs closed its accelerator fund late last year, a few months after our interview with Albinson.] Both organizations are staffed by strategic advisors, drawn from the business and investment communities, who can provide startups with the hands on mentorship that will help them get ahead.
“These guys are plugged in, aggressive and credible,†Albinson said. “They really add value to the companies they work with.â€
believes that government, no matter how good its intentions, should remain on the sidelines and focus instead on providing a supportive framework. At the regional level, two key ways to help is through tax breaks and by providing real estate at a low cost.
Glaros is a general manager for , a mentorship-driven seed stage investment organization that runs programs in Boston, Boulder, New York City and Seattle.
“The good thing about the entrepreneur community is that it is quick and nimble and can make things happen,†Glaros told us in an interview last year. But when government takes too direct a hand, the bureaucratic and administrative burden that invariably builds can end up more of a hindrance than a help.
Pointers from Pittsburgh
But that is not to say that a government-funded effort is doomed as a matter of course. One example of government policy at work that helps savvy entrepreneurs do what they do best without getting in the way is and its seed acceleration program, .
Innovation Works deems itself the Pittsburgh region’s largest and most active seed-stage investor. Since 1999, it has invested more than $50 million in more than 150 companies.
IW is a private non-profit corporation, which is largely funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority. Its AlphaLab is described as “a catalyst for launching and accelerating the growth of the next generation of software, web, mobile, entertainment technology, and hardware companies.†IW receives five per cent common stock in an AlphaLab company in return for a $25,000 investment, plus workspace and services. As a non-profit, any financial returns IW is re-deployed into the community.
Despite IW’s status as a non-profit and its support by a state agency, it is anything but bureaucratic.
“While our funding comes from the state, we’re not part of the state government,†said AlphaLab director . “All of the employees at IW come from the private sector and investment management, with experience in running companies or launching software businesses.â€
So what does all this mean?
Government can play a vital role in supporting a robust and vibrant startup environment at the local level, provided it takes its lead from the business leaders who live on the cutting edge of the technology market.
The challenge for entrepreneurs is to be careful about coupling all of their cars to the wrong train, or even one train. Does the team at your local incubator or economic development agency possess the entrepreneurial expertise and insight that can only come from having “been there and done that?†Is it capable of making the linkages you need in a particular overseas market, or in Boston, or in Silicon Valley? Find out by talking to people from those places. Get connected to them through grass roots organizations such as the C100.
We have said many times (and will likely do so many times again) that a startup must connect with as many people as possible to find the right resources it needs to succeed. The key thing is to not be daunted by how far afield that search may take you. In our next installment, we will talk more about the entrepreneurial right stuff that it takes to succeed.
This is the sixth article in a continuing series that examines the state of the ecosystem necessary to successfully bring technology to market. Based on dozens of interviews with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors, business leaders, academics, tech-transfer experts and policy makers, this series looks at what is working and what can be improved in the go-to-market ecosystem in the United States, Canada and Britain. We invite your feedback.
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But these same technologies can raise significant privacy concerns. Some concerns arise from the general means of engagement with mobile phones – such as users’ propensity to always leave them on. Of course, this enables incoming phone calls and text messages to be received, and many other applications that are central to the functionality of mobile devices. But it may also enable activities such
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Recently, my office and teamed up on a that addresses precisely this issue, mapping the way forward for meaningful privacy protection in the mobile space by providing practical advice for embedding the principles of Privacy by Design (PbD) into mobile technologies and applications.
Our report builds on the findings of original research conducted by ASU’s new PbD Research Lab. Researchers convened an expert panel of top executives from leading mobile organizations to identify and rate privacy and security challenges in their rapidly-expanding field, and propose potential solutions grounded in real-world experiences.
Using the solutions identified by this expert panel, our outlines key privacy responsibilities for each major stakeholder group in the industry – while noting that parties will have to collaborate to develop the most effective solutions. For example, device manufacturers must ensure that the requisite privacy tools are built-in, using potential solutions such as power support premium leather sleeve ipad ivory automatic, seamless encryption of device data, the development of privacy wizards, and safe disposal and secure destruction mechanisms. Similarly, OS and platform developers must work on possible approaches such as the integration of fine-grained, cross-application privacy controls, reporting mechanisms and regulating the access that applications have to device data. However, neither can fully implement these protections without the other party.
The responsibilities of network providers, application developers/data processors, and users are also addressed, as are areas in which full-sector collaboration is required in order to, for example, develop privacy standards, develop and deploy consumer-facing privacy icons, and build user awareness of potential privacy issues through education efforts.
In addition to tracing the way forward for privacy in the mobile sector, the Roadmap also demonstrates the extent to which “Privacy by Design is a team sport.â€Â All parties have a role to play, both on their own and in partnership with others.
In the context of mobile communications, if device hardware does not allow for the implementation of a given privacy measure, the OS or platform does not support it, or the user does not know about it, then that protection cannot be effective. This message will hold true for every implementation of Privacy by Design, regardless of industry sector – collaboration is essential, and will benefit all involved.
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By Francis Moran
One day last week, I tweeted the message you see to the right because I was tickled by the email that came in. In my haste, however, I added a snappy hashtag and thereby made bookmark php the same common mistake I often accuse marketers — even branding experts — of making.
The prospect who sent me that email remembered how I look. I will be the first to admit that a red — okay, rapidly greying — pony tail, full-but-tidy beard and what used to be a curly moustache do tend to set me apart from the average corporate consultant, even in the less-buttoned-down realm of marketing. Based on how I look, he was able to easily remember who I am.
He wasn’t, however, looking for a pony-tailed, bearded guy; he was, in fact, looking for a PR firm. And, because of whatever impression about my abilities as a PR guy that I had left with him during a past engagement, he immediately thought of me.
In that nutshell, then, you have the difference between branding and visual identity, something that, as I said at the opening, many marketers and not a few so-called branding experts often confuse.
The best explanation of branding I have ever heard came from , an early investor in Google whose pithy and dead-on definition I will never forget. “Branding,” he said, “Is what people think about you when you’re not there.” bookmark php That’s exactly what happened with that prospect last week. In my absence, this chap thinks of me as a good person to turn to for their new PR requirements. That’s my brand to him and, thankfully, it’s both clearly memorable and what I would want it to be in this instance.
How I look, arguably also memorable, is my visual identity. And, while it might contribute to my brand — successfully, if it suggests I’m not a conventional thinker — it ain’t my brand.
Far too often, in my experience, marketers confuse one with the other, with the result that the bookmark php so-called branding strategies they develop for their clients are actually little more than graphic standards manuals that explain why the various elements of the company’s visual identity exist and how they’re going to be governed.
Many of these manuals further torque the error by seeking to define the company’s brand, and this is where the exercise becomes even more misguided. Companies don’t define their brand; the marketplace does that for them. The most any company can do is define a set of brand attributes by which it would like to be known and then do its very best to live up to those attributes, something I call the company’s “brand promise.” The degree to which the company lives up to its brand promise in every single thing it does is exactly the degree to which it will be branded by the marketplace as it would want to be.
March 21, 2011
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By Denzil Doyle
During the past three or four decades, Canadian policy makers at both the federal and provincial levels have tried just about every trick in the book to finance technology companies, particularly samsung galaxy s vibrant those that are at an early stage in their development.
In the early 1980s, we had the Scientific Research Tax Credits (SRTCs) that allowed technology companies that were not yet profitable to predict in advance what their R&D expenditures were going to be during a certain year and then effectively sell those expenditures to taxable corporations and individuals for use as tax write-offs. The troubles came about when the companies were asked to verify their expenditure to the tax authorities. Many CEOs and CFOs ended up in jail or spent years dealing with aggressive tax auditors.
The SRTC program was eventually replaced by the current Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program, in which the R&D must be done in advance and the tax credit comes directly from the government to the company. In the case of a company that is not profitable, the credit takes the form of a cash payment that is a percentage of the R&D expenditures – typically about 40 per cent in provinces where the provinces top up the federal payments.
If there is a deficiency in the SR&ED program, it is that it only applies to R&D and not to other vital activities such as marketing and selling. In the early 90s, both the federal and the provincial governments got into the business of subsidizing the venture capital industry in order to address this deficiency. They left the SR&ED program pretty much the same, but they encouraged the formation of a new breed of venture capital companies known as Labour Sponsored Venture Capital (LSVC) companies. Explaining the role of labour in the LSVCs is beyond the scope of this article (in fact it is beyond the scope of most articles on the subject), but they did offer tax credits of up to 35 per cent to any individual who wished to buy shares in them.
To say that the LSVC program was a success would be stretching the truth. It was poorly designed in the first place and the two levels of government have been redesigning it ever since. For example, the managers of one of the very first LSVCs in Ontario decided they could make more money for their shareholders by investing in T-bills and it was virtually impossible to drag any money out of them samsung galaxy s vibrant for risky ventures like software start-ups. The government addressed that problem by introducing very stringent pacing rules that prevented an LSVC from sitting on its money. However, this was during the period when the so-called “dot-com bubble†was forming and the industry was awash in flaky companies and even flakier managers.
However, faced with the prospect of losing their license to raise more money, the LSVCs invested in many of these flaky situations and when they began to blow up in their faces, the traditional VC companies were quick to tell the governments “I told you so†because they were never exactly cheerleaders of the program from day zero.
As the rules became more complex and more plentiful, the cost of running a LSVC escalated. Scarcely a week went by without some policy or analysis group in one of the two levels of government coming to the industry with a request for information on anything from job creation to the hiring policies of the investee companies. The brokers who sold the investment units insisted upon something they called trailer fees even though they barely understood the product and were unable to provide much post-sale support. The LSVCs carried the full load of communicating with samsung galaxy s vibrant the unit holders . And this brings us to another problem: The typical LSVC had too many unit holders, because each unit holder was effectively limited to a $5,000 investment as that was the level at which the tax credit went away. A single mailing to unit holders could cost in excess of $50,000.
Both levels of government seem to have given up on the LSVC program and are withdrawing their tax credits. Unfortunately, this is occurring at a time when the whole Canadian VC industry is imploding. The deal flow is only a fraction of what it was just five years ago, even though our government laboratories and universities are under great pressure to commercialize their technology and there is no shortage of entrepreneurs.
A replacement program well worth investigating is the flow-through share (FTS) program that has been used for years in the mining and resource industries. As its name implies, it allows the flow of losses from non-profitable corporations to corporations and individuals that have taxes to pay. It also allows the buyers of the FTSs to participate in any upside potential of the companies selling them.
The federal government first introduced the FTS program in the mid-1950s, though the tax laws governing it have repeatedly changed since then. What is so attractive about the program is that it seems to work, perhaps for the simple reason that it has been around for so long that any bugs in the system have long been shaken out. It has withstood the test of time. It does not send people to jail. It seems samsung galaxy s vibrant to achieve the same goals as the LSVC program has been striving for without all the confusion and bells and whistles. Maybe that is why we have a robust mining industry but a poor record in technology commercialization.
Denzil Doyle’s involvement in Ottawa’s high technology industry goes back to the early 1960s when he established a sales office for Digital Equipment Corporation, a Boston-based firm that had just developed the world’s first minicomputer. The Canadian operation quickly evolved into a multi-faceted subsidiary. When he left the company in 1981, Canadian sales exceeded $160 million and its employment exceeded 1,500. In his next career, Doyle built a consulting and investment company, , that not only helped emerging companies, but built companies of its own. In recognition of his contributions to Canada’s high technology industry, he was awarded an honourary Doctorate of Engineering by Carleton University in 1981 and a membership in the Order of Canada in 1995.
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ITBusiness.ca readers demand Flash on iPad 2
By Gadjo Sevilla
Hi, my name is Gadjo Sevilla and I am the community manager for discussions here at ITBusiness.ca. We hope to be able to guide and enhance discussions, share ideas and reactions to the top stories, key bookmark php topics and burning issues covered across these pages.
One of the big stories last week was the launch of Apple’s iPad 2. A survey by ITBusiness.ca showed that a majority of our readers would like to see Flash capabaility on Apple’s new tablet device.
Introduced by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, who is currently on medical leave, the redesigned iPad is 33 per cent thinner than the current model yet sports a new dual core Apple A5 1GHz processor, 9 times the graphics processing capacity as well as a new gyroscope and rear plus front facing video cameras for FaceTime video calling.
The biggest news, however, was the iPad 2′s pricing and availability. Costing the same as the current iPad, the new version hits U.S. Â Apple retail stores and mobile carriers this Friday March 11 and will be available in Canada on March 25th.
This means that come April, iPad 2 will be widely distributed just as some of its competitors are readied for launch. Not only does the iPad 2 seem to cover all the specification advantages of its Android-powered competitors (dual-core processors, HDMI video out, better graphics for gaming), it is the thinnest and lightest of the bunch and some would argue that it is  currently the cheapest bookmark php and the most widely available 10-inch tablet.
In another bit of news, the original iPad is now heavily discounted until supplies run out ($419 for a new 16GB Wi-Fi only model, $369 if refurbished). Which makes owning a first generation iPad slightly more compelling for those who don’t need all the bells and whistles of iPad 2.
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Reader interest here on the iPad 2 has been quite steady.
We ran a poll on “the most wished for iPad 2 features” before the announcement and 63.5 per cent of the respondents picked Adobe Flash as the most desired feature for the iPad 2 while a higher resolution screen (12.5 per cent), dual-cameras bookmark php (12.5 per cent) and a faster processor (12.5 per cent) were the next most wanted features.
I can tell you that Adobe Flash isn’t coming to the iPad anytime soon. It doesn’t even ship loaded on new MacBook Airs because Apple thinks that Flash hogs background system resources and would slow down the iPad’s performance considerably if used. We did get dual-cameras and a faster processor but a higher resolution screen brings a number of foreseeable problems. The first is price, because a higher resolution display would add cost and the second is that the 65,000 existing iPad apps would need to be rewritten and updated to support another resolution.
In reaction to our story bookmark php and MacWorld Editor Jason Snell’s quick video, reader Jverboon commented:
“Still nothing is said about printing with it!!! I have the iPad 1 and the recommended printer by Apple but it does only print photos and not text.” Which is a valid observation.
Apple offers printing on the iPad but only if you use selected printers. We managed to print photos  and webpages on HP and Lexmark printers but like Jverboon, haven’t been successful at printing text documents.
Feedback from our from reader Gisabon stated “guess all the wishes will eventually show up in the iPad 3 or 4 or 5 or …. Apple already crammed some new features in this model. If they put any more, nobody would bother with future models.” Which is in line with what many analysts believe, that Apple boosted the feature set of the iPad 2 “just enough” for it to make its product more desirable than competing tablets which while announced, aren’t even shipping in bulk yet.
Any more thoughts about iPad 2? Is the updated feature set enough to entice new users or are people likely to wait out this version for the next one?
ITBusiness.ca values reader’s input and opinion and we look forward to helping the community make the most of their time online.ITBusiness.ca covers a vast landscape of topics ranging from news to emerging technologies and solutions and discussions are vital in getting input and perspective on these topics, my job is to help guide these along. I look forward to sparking discussions and assisting with useful feedback where I can.
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How to avoid falling prey to Libya 419 scams
How to avoid falling prey to Libya 419 scams
 By Nick JohnstonÂ
As seen in the past, (who typically promise large amounts of money, but demand upfront fees or payments first) are quick to react to current events. For example, in the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake in January 2010, .Â
Last month, MessageLabs Intelligence saw a number of different 419 scams, including ones that capitalize on the current political turmoil in the Middle East; another on an event in the very distant future; and lastly, one written in an uncommon language.Â
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MessageLabs Intelligence identified a scam message trying to take advantage of the unrest in Libya. It seems that as countries around the world scramble to evacuate their citizens from the deteriorating situation in the country, 419 scammers are also rushing to send out messages.Â
The scam message claims to be written by someone connected to Libya’s Senussi crown (overthrown by Muammar al-Gaddafi in his 1969 coup d’état). The scam follows a fairly normal form: the scammer claims to want assistance in transferring his money out of the country, and is prepared to pay for help. The scammer alludes to his involvement in the oil business, possibly thinking that this will entice people to reply to get a share of the wealth. Of course, the scammer will demand ever-inventive upfront fees and charges, and never send any money.Â
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Only a few days after the resignation of , MessageLabs Intelligence saw a German language 419 scam claiming to be from his lawyer.Â
The scammer claimed that he needed the recipient’s help to retrieve $2.5 million of the president’s funds, frozen in a Belgian bank account. The scammer further claimed that he’ll pay for assistance.Â
The recent uncertainty about Mubarak’s whereabouts and health, as well as reports that many jurisdictions are considering seizing his assets, could perhaps lend credibility to this particular 419 scam.Â
As usual for many 419 scams, the message is poorly constructed and has probably been automatically translated into German. Our advanced monitoring systems alerted us to this scam. Although this type of mail is generally low volume, it can still be a significant nuisance.Â
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Last December, MessageLabs Intelligence saw two scams which claimed the recipient had won a lottery supposedly connected with the 2014 World Cup. We were surprised to see scams promoting an event so far in the future, so we were especially surprised to recently see a scam promoting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Evidently scammers are not concerned by the fact that the tournament is more than 10 years away.Â
The scam itself is fairly normal. The mail contains very little content in the body; it simply encourages recipients to open the attached PDF document. The attachment was created with a popular open source office suite and claims that the recipient has won £1.5 million (roughly $2.41 million). The document contains a logo for the tournament as a watermark, and also contains a picture of FIFA president Sepp Blatter with Qatar Football Association president Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed al-Thani.Â
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The message encourages recipients to email the scammer to claim the money, or to phone a forwarding number, which often routes the call to the scammer abroad.Â
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While we have seen 419 scam mails constructed in many different languages such as German and French, in February, for the first time, we came across one written in Welsh.
 The content of the mail was typical of a 419 scam mail. The scammer poses as a widow of a Kuwaiti ambassador to the Ivory Coast with $2.5 million in a trust fund. The potential victim has to distribute some of the money to orphanages and the less privileged and in return, the scammer promises to make the victim a beneficiary of the fund.Â
It’s unlikely that the 419 scammer can read and write Welsh so it’s probable the mail was written in English and then translated into Welsh using an automated language translation website. It’s unknown why the scammer would have chosen Welsh when this language is read by a relatively small number of people, but further analysis revealed that the recipient in this case was actually based in Wales.Â
Moreover, the names of the individuals mentioned in the email have also been tailored to match the name of the recipient, which may be used to catch the recipient off-guard. Even though this email was targeting one of our Welsh-based clients, our advanced monitoring systems were able to identify this scam. Â
419 scams continue to grow in popularity as ways for cybercriminals to make quick money. Luckily, our advanced monitoring systems were able to detect and identify all four of these scams before the recipients became victims.Â
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By Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette
In his book, The Way Ahead: Meeting Canada’s Productivity Challenge, , RBC professor for the commercialization of innovation at the University of Ottawa’s , talks about the “social contract between science and society in the U.S.†that arose in the late 1940s and gave rise to that unique ecosystem we lg mobile sgdy0010901 data cable know today as Silicon Valley.
The basis of this contract is found in , a 1945 report to U.S. President Harry Truman by visionary Vannevar Bush that outlined a U.S. post-war science and technology policy that would ultimately result in the creation of the National Science Foundation. In the years that followed, military-funded unclassified R&D in the private sector, driven by the pressures of the Cold War and the space race, laid the foundation for Silicon Valley and made Bush’s vision a reality.
The story of Silicon Valley’s evolution, which is obviously far beyond the confines of this series, continues to support the misconception that the U.S. is somehow better at producing successful entrepreneurs and multinational technology enterprises than other countries. As if the “right stuff†is somehow genetically encoded as result of being born on American soil.
But as Duke University adjunct professor observed in in the March 2009 issue of BusinessWeek, the success of Silicon Valley in fact refutes this stereotype.
“Despite the fact that they constitute only 12 per cent of the American population, immigrants have started 52 per cent of Silicon Valley’s technology companies and contributed to more than 25 per cent of our global patents. They make up 24 per cent of the American science and engineering workforce holding lg mobile sgdy0010901 data cable bachelor’s degrees and 47 per cent of science and engineering workers who have PhDs,†Wadhwa wrote.
AÂ multinational ecosystem that is bigger than any one country
What has been created in Silicon Valley is an ecosystem with the critical mass to attract the top people from around the world and provide them with the varied resources they need to build success. There are also cultural elements here that bear noting; namely, an appetite for risk and an acceptance that failure is a fundamental building block of business success. But again, one can argue these characteristics define the multinational culture of Silicon Valley itself, as opposed to the U.S. in general.
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“It is very easy to go down the road of confirming stereotype,†said , general partner at , co-founder of the and an ex-pat Canadian who has been south of the border since 1988.
“What Silicon Valley has done is create an ecosystem and a brand, a model, that allows anyone from anywhere in the world to come and execute.â€
Simply put, for startup entrepreneurs of lg mobile sgdy0010901 data cable whatever origin, Silicon Valley is where it’s at.
, managing partner of and co-founder of the C100, is another ex-pat Canadian immersed in the U.S. VC and startup scene. From his view, Silicon Valley offers the broad cluster innovation, professional services and veteran expertise needed to support risk-taking, along with “a level of global customer intimacy that one just doesn’t see anywhere else on the planet.â€
The tens of thousands of talented individuals who have been drawn to Silicon Valley represent a rich resource for startups from almost any country in search of the counsel, capital and resources they need to bring technology to market. India and Israel are two outstanding examples of countries that have leveraged the large lg mobile sgdy0010901 data cable ex-pat communities they have in the Valley.
In Canada’s case, there are 300,000 ex-pats living in the orbit of California’s technology sector.
“We must find out how to tap into all these Canadians and ask their help,†said , president and CEO of Waterloo’s .
Incubation from the grass roots: The C100
In March 2010, a number of Canadian ex-pats decided to make that task easier. They pooled their resources to create the C100.
C100 is a non-profit, member-driven organization dedicated to supporting Canadian technology entrepreneurship and investment, comprised of a select group of Canadians based primarily in the Valley, including executives of leading technology companies, experienced startup entrepreneurs and venture capital investors.
“We’re trying to give Canadians as much of an unfair advantage as we can,†said Lee. “We are trying to leverage the talent pool down here to provide that success path, to provide mentors, connections and access to funding.â€
Within its first five months, the C100 earned the support and sponsorship of government, economic development agencies and technology incubators across Canada, from and , to , and Communitech. Seventy Canadian companies were introduced in the Valley and five secured VC investment — a total of US$45 million. And that was just the start.
“We’re still small and still growing,†said Lee.
And this is important to a new or growing tech venture because…
is CEO of , a Waterloo startup that is among the scores of companies to date that have been introduced in the Valley by the C100. To him, the C100 is a “business mentoring program on steroids†that can help a startup “go beyond becoming a company to becoming a globally competitive company that can scale.â€
Achieving this global perspective it critical in two ways.
First, to bring technology to market, startup entrepreneurs must think globally in terms of which markets they should target. Second, they must also think globally in terms of how far afield they should look for the help and resources they need to reach those markets.
As the C100 demonstrates, there is an overwhelming array of resources out there for company incubation and growth. The only way for a startup to tap into this is to realize that the value chain for bringing technology to market transcends borders. Entrepreneurs must look beyond their own backyards and connect with as many people as possible.
What is your view on the value of “plugging into the Valley?†What do you consider to be the essential ingredients for, as Campbell put it, going “beyond becoming a company to becoming a globally competitive company that can scale?†Please share your thoughts through the comment section below.
In our next instalment, we will discuss startup incubation from the perspective of how economic development is best handled at the community and regional level.
This is the fifth article in a continuing series that examines the state of the ecosystem necessary to successfully bring technology to market. Based on dozens of interviews with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors, business leaders, academics, tech-transfer experts and policy makers, this series looks at what is working and what can be improved in the go-to-market ecosystem in the United States, Canada and Britain. We invite your feedback.
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Small businesses with a Web site registered to a sony ericsson bst 38 battery retail packaging dot-ca domain have a shot at winning $5,000 next May.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) announced its at Toronto’s Mesh Marketing conference Nov. 17. Canada’s domain registration authority will give away a total of $20,000 – awarding a $5,000 prize to Web sites in four different categories. Aside from Small Business, awards will be given for E-Learning, Not-For-Profit, and Web Technology.
CIRA will start taking entries in January and close in March, says Jennifer Austin, senior manager of communications. The winner will be announced at Toronto-based Mesh conference.
“We would encourage anyone with a small business dot-ca Web site to apply,†Austin says. “That could go a long way for small businesses to help with their Web site and their Web presence.â€
A panel of judges is soon to be assembled to better determine the criteria for the awards. CIRA hopes to nab notable judges in the Internet community and specific to sony ericsson bst 38 battery retail packaging the category areas. CIRA is looking for the winning small business Web site to be innovative, have a demonstrated impact on the growth of business, and generate a measurable return on investment.
“The Web site doesn’t have to change the world,†Austin says. “It does have to make an impact in the community that the business is operating in, whether that’s a vertical, or a physical location.â€
Even small businesses who don’t claim the top prize could get some recognition for their entries. CIRA may profile some finalists as well, Austin says. “It’s still being worked out.â€
The awards are an opportunity for CIRA to give back to Canada’s Internet community, she adds. The authority has a mandate to do more than just register domains, but also to engage with the community and recognize good work.
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Spammers can be quite creative
By Mathew Nisbet
Spammers will try anything to get their spam past your filters and into your inbox. We’ve seen many tricks involving random text hidden in the body, use of images, a message body with nothing but a link to the main message somewhere on incase cl59672 white slider case iphone 4 the web. This example is one of the more elaborate (but ultimately futile) attempts that I’ve seen.
Recently we have been seeing a run of emails that pretend to be informing the recipient that they have a number of “unread” or “important” messages waiting for them on a well known social network. Over a 3 day period, between October 24 and 26, we saw roughly 18,500 of these. Since then the volume has dropped to less than 100 per day, but we are still seeing them.
The use of a well known social media brand name is the first part of the approach to bypass filters. The message copies the format of common legitimate email subjects and cannot be detected based on a signature related to the subject alone. It is also a piece of incase cl59672 white slider case iphone 4 social engineering, to try and entice an unsuspecting user into opening the email.
On opening the email, you can immediately see that the email has nothing to do with the social network mentioned in the subject line, but is instead spam trying to get people to buy pharmaceuticals.
At first glance this looks like image spam (where the “text” is actually part of an image), which is usually an attempt to make it readable by humans but not computers. However, in this case there are no images in the email. If we look at the email with html rendering turned off, the plain text section displays a string of legitimate links to genuine companies (which is most incase cl59672 white slider case iphone 4 likely an attempt to poison spam filters) followed by seemingly random text.
However, if we look at the rendered html again, but this time highlight all the text in the mail, you can see the same, seemingly random, text.
This means that the text isn’t random at all, but is instead intended to disguise the real text of the email, making it much harder to automatically recognize certain words. The use of html tags to change background and font colours allows the spammers to make only the desired characters visible to humans. To a machine, it still appears as simple text in html format, thus making it very difficult for standard filters to spot words. In this case the use of html also makes what appears to be a green cross image.
Spammers can be really creative in their approaches to getting messages through to people. In this case the fact that, aside from a few links, there is no recognizable text in the message automatically makes it suspicious. More advanced techniques, like contrast analysis, can be used to allow a computer to identify that some letters would not be visible to humans, making it possible for the computer to analyze the real message and stop it from reaching any potential victims.
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