What could be one of the most overlooked retrospectives, appearing in the Business Section of the Christmas Eve edition of the Toronto Star, is a retrospective of significant events in Canadian Tech Law. Most relate to online privacy and piracy.
For anyone who follows tech law, it makes for an interesting stroll down memory lane, which many of us are prone to do this time of year.
Happy Holidays.
Read more: “The year in Canadian tech law, A to Z”
If you’re like me, your best-laid plans to get your holiday shopping done early this year once again fell by the wayside. But don’t panic yet – get help from my favorite kind of advertorial, the holiday gift guide. For the entrepreneur in your life, Ja-Nae Duane, founder of Wild Women Entrepreneurs, gives you a musical short list in “The 12 Days of an Entrepreneur Christmas,” while Darren Herman focuses on the basics at Silicon Alley Insider.
Last evening, attendees at Entrepreneurship 101 heard Prof Ajay Agrawal discuss three key questions that technical entrepreneurs often fail to adequately answer:
online social network
During a breakout session at the Social Entrepreneurship Summit, an interesting dialogue about connectedness, more specifically social technology, got the table riled up. The discussion seemed to break into two camps (as most interesting discussions do): Team “the human touch” representing one side and, in the opposing corner, team “technology.” Albeit simplified categories, this division served as the underlying counterpoint.
Strategy Guru C.K. Prahalad addresses the Tie Summit, India
A recent invitation to join a Canadian delegation to India sponsored by TIE (the Indus Entrepreneurs) and the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) led to a real eye opener. The trip left me with a lot to ponder about how this corner of the world will play a significant role in the way we bring science and technology to market. As they say, it’s not what you don’t know that will kill you in business. Rather, it’s what you think you know but get wrong that will. I’m happy to say that some of the misconceptions I had about India have quickly been “realigned.”
Indeed, India does live up to all the hype we’ve seen in large part driven by the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industry. But there is so much more to India than what the VIP tour of the Infosys headquarters can reveal. Take a closer look at India and you will see huge implications for Canadian business, including the way we approach entrepreneurship and even social innovation.
