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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 call up ca...

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