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Miguel Armaza sits down with Dave Unsworth and Kerri Golden from Information Venture Partners, a Canadian Venture Capital firm that primarily invests in early-stage North American B2B FinTech and enterprise software. We talk about: - Dave and Kerri’s transition from operators to investors - IVP’s relationship with the Royal Bank of Canada - Fundraising from institutional LPs - The duo’s strategy to invest in the next generation of leaders - The importance of engineering a culture early on - Interesting fintech trends - The role of a CFO at a Venture Capital firm - And a lot more! Dave Unsworth Dave Unsworth co-founded Information Venture Partners in 2014. Dave has led investments in eSentire (exited, 2017), Verafin, Sensibill, Igloo Software (exited, 2017), Viigo (acquired by BlackBerry), Coconut Software, BigID, Knowtions and LendingFront. Dave is focused on FinTech and Enterprise software and is particularly interested in cybersecurity, mobile, enterprise 2.0 and ventures that create highly valuable data assets by being at the center of large-scale financial transactions. Prior to founding Information Venture Partners Dave worked as an investor with RBC Venture Partners from 2001. Prior to his career in venture capital, Dave had a successful career in operating roles focused on e-commerce strategy development, technology-enabled financial services product development, technology project management and retail/commercial financial services. Dave is an active member in the start-up community in Toronto and Waterloo as a mentor to early-stage CEOs and founding teams. Dave also serves as a mentor in the Kaufmann Fellows program and more recently with the Holt FinTech Accelerator and as an investment committee member for the Investment Accelerator Fund. Dave has been a frequent contributor to Private Capital Magazine. Dave is an original member and past Chair of the Financial Services Venture Capital Alliance. Dave was granted an MBA from Queen’s University, a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also a graduate of the NVCA’s Venture Capital Institute and the Rotman SME Board Effectiveness Program. Kerri Golden Kerri Golden joined Information Venture Partners at inception in 2014 and works with the investment team to help select and support the fund’s investee companies and manage the financial operations of the fund. She has over 30 years of general management and finance experience in a variety of technology industries and she’s been active in securing financings of over $1 billion in equity and debt and in negotiations of a number of merger and acquisition transactions. Kerri was a General Partner of Primaxis Technology Ventures for eight years where she led and managed several investments in early-stage companies in the IT, software and communications sectors and also served as CFO of the fund. Kerri had a successful corporate career with high growth technology companies. She was a mobile pioneer at Rogers Wireless, joining prior to service launch and experiencing start-up challenges and opportunities as company grew from zero to $200M in revenue during her 2.5 year tenure. She was a public company CFO at Alliance Atlantis Communications and Lorus Therapeutics and ended her successful 7-year career at Bell Mobility as CEO, Paging Division after progressive leadership positions in Finance and IT. Kerri is an experienced start-up executive. She co-owns a small business Urban Flats Toronto and served as COO at SeaWell Networks and CFO at Infobright. She serves the start-up community as an active mentor at MaRS, where she co-founded the JOLT Fund and continues to serve as a volunteer general partner. Kerri obtained an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and earned her CA designation while working with KPMG in Toronto.
Many pundits in the HR and tech space are speculating on trends we need to be mindful of. Many anticipate the workplace as we know it today will be a great predictor of what's to come. As more and more companies develop a global footprint and with that employ people based in different countries with varying cultural nuances, the need for better digital tools and accessibility to remain connected continues to rise. Join this week's special guest, Stephen Rahal, Igloo Software, VP of Product Strategy and host Meghan M. Biro as they discuss the four key trends every company needs to know today to better prepare for the future workplace.
Discussing our plans with our parents and other loved ones can be tough. In today’s show we focus on making our loved ones understand our business aspirations. Come join us in today’s show! Stitcher | SoundCloud | Podcast Feed | How To Subscribe Give us a Rating & Review Today’s Sponsor: Nadex – trade faster with binary options! Igloo Software – […] The post MBA155 Q&A Weekend: How do I explain to my parents that I’m not a dreamer and that I’m trying to build a business? appeared first on The $100 MBA.
T-Bone and Bubb talk about Thanksgiving and frying turkeys and Black Friday / Cyber Monday. They also talk about some of their favorite podcasts including Serial, The Talk Show, The Resort Loop, Accidental Tech Podcast and Stuff You Should Know. Other topics included a revisit to Monument Valley, Google Talk, MS Office's old pal "Clippy", Igloo Software, improved graphics in iOS with Metal, Square Register and Square Cash apps. Finally, Bubb delivers a pro tip to help you get more out of iTunes Radio.
Lex has family and friends in unimaginable situations. It affects today's show.
Today's episode of Your Daily Lex has a real sponsor! And a fake sponsor: Overtiredness.
Joshuah Bearman is the co-founder of Epic Magazine and a freelance writer. His latest story is "Coronado High." "People who know me well will realize that parts of this story are actually about me. … It's about loss of innocence and getting to a certain point in your life where you realize the excitement of youth is over. Life at a certain point gets complicated and there are consequences and things get hard. These are people who dealt with those consequences in a way that I never did — they had to go to prison or destroy their friends lives — but that's what I liked about this story. It's a true crime story, but it became universal when I realized that there is this emotional experience that these characters go through that anybody can relate to." Thanks to TinyLetter and Igloo Software for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @JoshBearman Bearman on Longform [2:45] "Coronado High" (The Atavist • Aug 2013) [3:30] Excerpt of the GQ version of "Coronado High" (GQ • Jun 2013) [6:00] "The Great Escape" (Wired • Apr 2007) [14:00] Longform Podcast #11: Bearman discusses Argo [20:00] "Baghdad Country Club" (The Atavist • Jan 2012) [24:30] Epic Magazine [25:15] Longform Podcast #17: Joshua Davis [42:00] "The Gold Heist: A Third Interview with a Nuclear Physicist" (McSweeney's • Mar 2001) [43:15] "The Perfect Game" (Harper's • Jul 2008) [subscription required] [44:30] "It's Always a Good Idea to Get Some Manure on Your Boots" (The Believer • April 2004) [46:30] "Heaven's Gate: The Sequel" (L.A. Weekly • Mar 2007)
Recorded 28 June 2013. You can download the m4a file. In this episode we talk about iOS 7 and about syncing. This episode is sponsored by Igloo Software. Igloo is an intranet you’ll actually like. You can share content quickly with built-in apps: blogs, calendars, file sharing, forums, Twitter-like microblogs and wikis. Everything is social: you comment on any type of content, @mention your coworkers, follow content for updates and use tags to group things around the way you work. You can add on rooms, like mini-Igloos, for each of your teams to work in It’s easy – the whole thing is drag-and-drop, features responsive design and uses beautiful fonts from TypeKit Your Igloo has enterprise-grade security, and you can start using it right away It’s free to use with up to ten people, and when your Igloo grows, its only $12/person each month Go to igloosoftware.com/patty (as in Duke) to start building your Igloo Some things we mention: We Are Sinking Tokyo Mac Pro Macbook Air CodeWarrior iOS 7 Path OS X Mavericks Vesper Chatology WWDC Fantastical NetNewsWire Marco on NetNewsWire Syncing Feedly FeedHQ FeedWrangler NewsBlur Dropbox iCloud Amazon Web Services Windows Azure Mobile Services Heroku Mr. Reader HockeyApp
There are two key mistakes healthcare companies make when adopting social or mobile technologies, explains Andrew Dixon, senior vice president of marketing and operations, Igloo Software. Dixon describes what's driving the aggressive growth of interactive patient care communities and suggests how responsibility for social strategy --- which he defines as both an internal and external communications strategy --- should be assigned. Dixon discussed the key elements of an effective social strategy, along with and best practice guidance from healthcare social strategies having a bottom line impact during a May 1 2013 webinar, "Healthcare Social Business Strategy: Driving Adoption with Social, Mobile and Cloud Technologies," a 45-minute program sponsored by The Healthcare Intelligence Network.
Giving Dave Morin the benefit of the doubt on that Vanity Fair trainwreck. Who Facebook Home is for and why Facebook made it. Whether Facebook, Amazon, Samsung, etc. could or should make their own OS or maintain completely diverged Android forks. Google forking WebKit, Chrome vs. Safari, and the fork's likely implications for Apple and web developers. Debug #11: Don Melton and Safari WebKit contributors by company Panic's new Status Board app (and IAP reaction). We included Jonathan Mann's ending theme song again. Thanks, Jonathan! Sponsored by Igloo Software.
Roderick on the Line, Ep. 51: “In Pursuit of an Errant Leaf” on Huffduffer The Problem: We may very well be the first generation of fruits. Sponsored by Igloo Software Igloo. The new digital workplace.
Roderick on the Line, Ep. 50: “Check Your Six” on Huffduffer The Problem: John was supposed to be Joe Junior. Sponsored by Igloo Software Igloo. The new digital workplace.
Roderick on the Line, Ep. 49: “A Red Light in a Strange Town” on Huffduffer The Problem: Would you like to donate a dollar for penis cancer? Sponsored by Igloo Software Igloo. The new digital workplace.
The Problems: There needs to be a lot more exhaustion in this country; we were really tearing through popes there for a while; one hickie, and suddenly you’re out-of-uniform; Billy Corgan: The Seriousest Kid on Earth; retirees and toddlers should NOT be sharing a classroom; why John could never be a full Grateful Dead person; pull up those goddamned pants—like a gentleman; when ganking, you can’t stab your fish until the new shivs arrive; guys, you gotta stay away from the heroin; you get that Trotsky tattoo, and you’re stuck with that Trotsky tattoo; Merlin’s morbid fear of Judas Priest; passing on that Orthodox stress bump? “Tradition!”; history clearly mitigates against the group shower; Paul Shaffer just keeps playing along; crafting an artisanal air guitar; how your “fitness regimen” is literally killing the environment; Jonathan Cain, last of a generation; pondering England’s functional pussies; introducing awkward sharing and constant uncertainty; startling new statistics on what 70% of New York’s men “have”; up to pie on katie bars of kitchen signs—but not me in; John shares how to properly blouse a pant; how did you get this number?; Merlin gives Hodgman a fresh pair of GoldToe®s; introducing new yokes to usefulness; Dave Grohl seems like a pretty nice guy; no skylarking; the little red-haired witch that flew over the moon; an abrupt change of plans for little Tyler Heraclitus; The Varieties of Wangus Experience; debating the indignity of the keytar; silent instruments of the holocaust; now it’s HALF a golf pencil, and you’ll like it; the category of things that are never funny; no excuse, sir; yeah, but, Rimbaud and Mozart were corner cases; functional data points on The Liberty Bell Curve; how come only the keyboard guys ever die?; and that is what you get for wearing a plastic faucet on your head for nine hours; “Shower down to get an ‘A!’”; only takes one shortcut to ruin the rugby photo for everyone; crisscross applesauce; entering Washington’s carnival worm hole; why Merlin may be better at guitar than he lets on; gaslighting the shit out of these kids; one day love will find you; more on helping Gibson find his duck; and, John’s important new plan for helping our young people. Sponsored by Igloo Software Igloo. The new digital workplace.
Wherein Myke and I discuss some more stuff we are using and loving these days. Today's awesome sponsor is Igloo Software, cross platform collaboration that works the way you do. Igloo are giving away some Field Notes National Crop notebooks. Go to their site to enter the competition. Links Include: Field Notes — “I'm not writing it down to remember it later, I'm writing it down to remember it now.” Pelle Leather Journal - Brown - Small + 1 Plain Linen Paper Notebook (3.4“ X 4.9”) Insert - 64 Pages - JetPens.com The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield Do the Work by Steven Pressfield Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work by Steven Pressfield patrickrhone / journal » Book Review: Turning Pro Sketchnotes - Designer Mike Rohde Sketchnote Handbook: Book Project, Video, Podcast Update - Sketchnote Army - A Showcase of Sketchnotes Crosley CR49 Traveler Portable Turntable (Tan) Numark TTUSB Turntable with USB Batman: The Brave and the Bold Digital Comics - Comics by comiXology App Store - Comics