I'm at a conference in the Times Center on 41st street at 8th Avenue in NYC. It's called The 99% Conference. (The title is a riff on the famous Thomas Edison quote, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.")

Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation unveiled a new $250-million plan today to stimulate the province's moribund venture capital industry. You can read my story on the initiative here. Please comment below—whether you're an early-stage investor, entrepreneur, or just concerned about the innovation economy, I would like to hear your ...

My cover story in the current issue of Canadian Business magazine—our special annual Innovation Issue—looks at how entrepeneurs in this country are trying to cope with a venture capital industry in crisis. One tactic is to look to the U.S., where VCs are still flush with money and looking for ...

My latest Canadian Business Online column was posted yesterday, looking at why the Canadian venture capital industry may want to stop comparing itself to the U.S. In short, with the U.S. industry entering a necessary and healthy period of adjustment that could see it a fair bit smaller in just ...

The Canadian Venture Capital Association just released its Q3 2008 results, and they're not good: $372 million invested, down 26% from the same period in '07, with just 123 companies getting money, 17 fewer year-over-year. For the first nine months of 2008, financing is down 33%, and Canadian companies got ...