Monthly Archives: June 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Celebrating Failure?
Courtesy of our summer legal intern crew, an interesting juxtaposition of three prominent Canadian newspapers’ focus on the startup experience in the Great White North. Interestingly, amid the global hype of “bubble next” with the rash of recent hot tech …
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Friday, June 24, 2011
LW on the WC
Thanks again to Martin Ertl from contractual.ly for hosting LaBarge Weinstein and our partner, James Smith, at Vancouver’s inaugural “Startup Supernova” this past week. Sharing the stage with startup-curmudgeon-with-a-heart-of-gold and GROWLabs founder Jason Bailey was a real highlight, and luckily …
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Bootup Entrepreneurial Society`s Startup Supernova
We`re happy to announce that James Smith of our office is speaking in Vancouver on Wednesday the 22nd of June at the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society`s Startup Supernova. James will be chatting about co-founder agreements, and the invite is courtesy of …
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Congratulations PostRank
Congratulations to the Ilya Grigorik, Carol Leaman, and the rest of the PostRank crew on its recent sale to Google, and we wish the team the best in its new endeavours in the Valley. We were thrilled to share our …
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Head in the Clouds
Head of LW licensing group and national open source/privacy guru, Mike Morgan, featured speaker at upcoming Cloud Computing Law conference in Ottawa – http://www.federatedpress.com/pdf/CCLT1103-E.pdf – we’ve warned Mike to stay out of the punch bowl this year.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
The VC as Ichabod Crane
Pundits have been recently rumbling the merits of the “headless” VC deal, with leading institutions humbly taking their place along side leading angels in providing seed financing to budding management teams. Down south, former Digg founder Kevin Rose has folks …
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