Winter 2012

A Letter of Introduction

By Don Safnuk, Corporate Recruiters Ltd.
Don can be contacted at don@corporate.bc.ca

This month, I encourage all of you to read Bill Tam’s article on Technology in B.C. Did you know that the B.C. tech sector employs more people than all the resource industries combined? Did you know that tech was the number one growth industry in B.C. over the last 10 years?

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B.C. Tech Industry: The 20-Year Overnight Success Story

By Bill Tam, BC Technology Industry Association (BCTIA).
Bill can be contacted at btam@bctia.org

In the fall of 2011, B.C. Stats published their much-awaited High Technology Report. Surprisingly, the report was released with little fanfare, despite providing some great information on the progress of the technology industry in B.C.

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The Loneliness Of The Corporate Secretary

By David W. Rowat, Strategic Catalysts Inc.
David can be contacted at dwrowat@stratcat.com

Pity the poor Corporate Secretary, who has a role that few understand and fewer appreciate. Organizing Board meetings, keeping the minute book and share capitalization schedules up-to-date, organizing the Annual General Meeting; none of this stirs the blood of an entrepreneurial tech company but is nonetheless necessary.

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Digital Media - Social and Mobile Games Sector is Hot with Rapid Growth and Global Expansion

By Howard Donaldson, DigiBC.
Howard can be contacted at howard@digibc.org

We are in the midst of a global digital revolution, and one sector of digital media that is particularly hot is Mobile Social Games. New companies you have never heard of before are growing into billion dollar businesses, looking for global expansion and generating new opportunities for British Columbia.

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Ive Got Valuable Advice [sic]

By Brent Holliday, Technology Practice, Capital West Partners.
Brent can be contacted at brent@capwest.com

In reading the posthumous biography of Steve Jobs, I discovered a few things that I didn’t know. The most shocking was that he learned his “reality distortion field” concept from local mining billionaire Robert Friedland. But I also picked up another nugget that can be applied to your technology company.

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