Human Trafficking: How Is This Possible In The 21st C.?
On Human Trafficking in Canada and Beyond: Part One. Of all the human tragedies that occur in our modern-day society, it seems none match the inhumanity of sex trafficking. Poverty,…
About that Elon Musk and Tesla Phone Rumour…When The World Is Begging For One
Elon Musk’s Recent Twitter Rant Brings To Light The Need To Disrupt The Cell Phone Duopoly, Perhaps More Than A Free Twitter; And BlackBerry Mobile Patents Are Available And Ripe…
Skyworker’s Co-Founder, CEO on War, Ukraine, Guilt, and the Startup Dream
Imagine creating a startup and then a war breaks out in your home country. Then you move to an underground shelter, only to move to another city and eventually settle…
Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet at Collision Conference; Corporate Empathy and the Secret Sauce to Mentoring Startups
I’m guided around a black curtain by a Techstars rep who tells me Maëlle Gavet is now free for her interview. I see Gavet sitting in a black leather chair. It…
Various National Flags At Toronto Protest Shows Emotional Reach Of The War In Ukraine (Lithuania, Georgia, Belarus, Poland, Estonia, Taiwan, Netherlands, et al.)
On the way into the downtown core, a gentleman driving a black Mercedes had two flags rolled up on his dash. One was the Ukrainian flag, while the other—perhaps less…
Facebook, Algorithmic-Based Rankings and ‘The Perfect Storm’; Frances Haugen Testifies to Congress.
The whistleblower, Frances Haugen, and former product manager for Facebook (now Meta) testified at yesterday’s U.S. Senate hearing. Regarding her testimony, Sen. Blumenthal (D-Conn) remarked in his opening statement that Haugen was…
The Meme Stock, Viral Trading Craze: For Markets and Hedge Funds, It’s Something Of An Incursion; For Retail Investors It’s Something Of A Revolution.
At the start of the week, and within a matter of days, stock markets were showing something anomalous with certain stocks (GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, and later Nokia, et al.), creating…
Why Toronto (And Surrounding Regions) Might Be The Next Silicon Valley
Invest in Toronto, invest in Ottawa, invest in Waterloo, invest, invest, invest.
With A Possibility For CRISPR To Cure “All” Diseases, Should All New Biotech Companies Be Designated Public Benefit Corporations (PBCs) To Thwart Potentially Specious Big Pharma Takeovers?
A neoteric philosophy on CRISPR (Cas9 and other variants): biotech startups; takeovers; Big Pharma (potentially comprised with executives susceptible to unscrupulous profit motives); a designate known as 'PBC'; and China. It…