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6 Questions: One-on-One with Jacques Bernier, head of Teralys Capital Fund
When Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec announced that it was launching a new venture capital fund — along with the Fonds de Solidarité FTQ, and the Quebec government — people were understandably excited, especially when they found out that Teralys Capital Fund, headed by Jacques Bernier, would be infused with $750 million of capital, making it the largest fund of its kind in Canada.
Its...
Desperate Measures
For one full week at the end of April, Coldplay let its fans download the first single off its new album, Viva La Vida, for free. While that’s not a revolutionary idea in itself, the fact that 600,000 Internet users downloaded the track in a 24-hour span, and 1.4 million more grabbed it during the week, suggests expectations are high for Coldplay’s new album, out June 17. Undoubtedly, the...
Politicians get into the game
There are plenty of issues Canadians expect their politicians to be vocal about — the economy and national defense to name two — but sharing their thoughts on sports? It turns out this is one arena where politicos can’t keep quiet.
After Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie announced on May 5 that he’d like to move the Phoenix Coyotes to southern Ontario, a whole host of...
This album brought to you by — you
It’s unlikely you’ll see Walter Braunsteiner on the Grammys’ red carpet or rubbing shoulders with Kanye West, but that doesn’t mean this 36-year-old Austrian can’t be the world’s next big music mogul. An insurance industry IT specialist by day, Braunsteiner has given up buying CDs of up-and-coming artists, instead focusing his energies, and money, on developing them....
Digital music: Don’t blame your public library
Unfortunately for the thousands of Canadians who borrow music from the library, the days of flipping through a library’s CD collection could be numbered. In 2007, the Toronto Public Library saw music checkouts decline by seven per cent, while the Winnipeg Public Library saw its numbers drop by five per cent. The reason? More people are finding music online.
Like retail music stores, which saw...
Marketing: Independent thinking
“You coming to bed?” asks a woman, wondering if her husband is ready to stop watching the hockey game that’s playing on their large plasma TV. “I’m just going to catch the end of the game,” he responds, moments before his young son appears saying he can’t sleep. When the father uses his PVR to show his restless boy a stellar goal and the two enjoy a spontaneous...
Live & Learn: Paul Anka
I love the business side of life. It allows me to make decisions, have some freedom. And it allows me to spend money, which I love to do. I don’t believe in saving and hoarding. For who? For what?
Initially, I was an artist, but I realized very quickly that you have to have some sense of who you are. If you wanted to stay in this business, you had to treat it like a business and you needed to...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business publications. He writes for the New York Times, Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg Businessweek Custom Publishing, Toronto Star, MoneySense and more. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and he's co-authored