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Technology Market & Finance Trends In Western Canada

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The Massive Something Ventured Archive T-Net, BC

Since April of 1998, I have been writing "columns" called Something Ventured.  This was a Web 1.0 world.  I did my own HTML and submitted the formatted columns by e-mail to BC's largest news and jobs site for the technology industry: www.bctechnology.com Over 250 columns were written and submitted.  While only a few may appear here today, I intend to have access to all of them over time.

Some of this is entertaining (like me trying to call the top of the dotcom bubble... a year too early) and some of it is informative.  At the very least it is a peak at the history of the technology industry from the lens of a venture capitalist for almost a dozen years.

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  • Posted by Brent Holliday on 
    Friday, July 26, 2002 12:00 AM

    From July 2002 - The summer is never slow for news. You'd think that people would just kick back, relax and wait for September. They do it in Europe, don't they? Apparently not. At least not in Paris, France near the Place Georges Pompidou. Home of Business Objects SA, a $500M a year business software maker. The new headquarters for Crystal Decisions, bought last week for US$300M in cash and roughly US$520M in stock. What happened? Where did the bellwether IPO (initial public offering) go? Why isn't Crystal Decisions its own company with a fresh US$170M in its jeans ready to take on the world and make its new public shareholders happy? Why did our local success story, organically grown in Vancouver to 1,700 employees and over US$200M in revenue decide to become a branch office for its slightly larger competitor?


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