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VC Crisis? What VC Crisis?

Posted on October 09, 2008

I dropped into the Ottawa Network at the Code Factory last night to hear Shirley Speakman from Ontario s Ministry of Research and Innovation, Matt Williams from IPeak, and Paul Dawalibi of Montreal s St. Lawrence Capital (formerly Garage Canada) speak on Seed Funding. It was well worth attending, although I doubt that Paul s presentation was as well received as he would have liked. Abrasive, confrontational and some would say hostile, his message was pretty simple VC s are in it for the money.I asked Paul whether the current US downturn would affect St. Lawrence s ability to ...

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