The Segway seeks a
market was the introductory class in venture
capital strategies in the 2004 academic
year.
Rechargeable Batteries was an
attempt to introduce issues of commercialization to a group of
graduate students in the life sciences at McGill in
2003.
Flying
Squirrels was a lecture given tot the MBA class at
McGill in 2004 that tried to move a discussion of investing in
health sciences and life sciences away from an exclusive focus
on biotechnology to look at other areas of potential
investment.
Flywheels and the Next Sony Walkman was developed for a lecture at Rotman in December 2005
.
An Investment Portfolio for Alternate Energy was a lecture presented at Haskayne Business School in Calgary in March 2006.
A new piece on "Teaching Entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan and
Angola" has been added as a venture capital memo on July 11,
2006. It is a paper on ways entrepreneurial
activities can be addressed in emerging capital markets,
including resource-rich economies with an opportunity to
develop sustainable prosperity and broader
innovation.
In many instances, web-links are given. Companies are cited as examples and, on occasion, a
company in which I or a fund with which I am associated may
have an investment interest.
The venture capital memos are an attempt
to capture trends that reflect new inventive sources in a
now-global market of invention and new investment trends
driving the next generation of venture capital
investors.