Venture Capital pulse in Canada

for 2009:

Leading active VC in Canada along with the number of deals they participated in this year.

1. 26 - Business Development Bank of Canada - $128
2. 25 - GrowthWorks Ltd. - $99
3. 10 - VenGrowth Private Equity Partners - $27
4. 5 - Fonds de solidarité FTQ - $96
5. 5 - Yaletown Venture Partners Inc. - $19
6. 4 - iNovia Capital - $27
7. 4 - Ventures West Capital Ltd. - $26
8. 4 - Lions Capital Corp. - $16
9. 4 - Export Development Canada - $13
10. 4 - AVAC Ltd. - $10
11. 4 - Covington Capital Corporation - $7
12. 3 - Desjardins Venture Capital - $19
13. 3 - Multiple Capital Inc. - $15
14. 3 - BDR Capital - $15
15. 3 - B.E.S.T. Investment Counsel Limited - $9
16. 3 - Discovery Capital Management Corp. - $7
17. 2 - JLA Ventures Inc. - $21
18. 2 - CTI Life Sciences Fund - $20
19. 2 - EdgeStone Capital Partners - $18
20. 2 - VentureLink LP - $17

US College Rankings - by graduation

According to the Washington Monthly ...

Purdue is at 51.  ouch!

Want to graduate? The better the college, the better your chances

From an interesting New York Times article:

education and campus sites

Minglebox

India Education net
possible competitor

social networking scene in India ...

some data points:

Orkut: 12.8 m (YoY growth 81%)
Facebook: 4.4 m (150%)
BharatStudent: 3.8 m (88%)
hi5: 2.0 m (182)

interestingly: ibibo (-50%) and bigadda (-79%) have been losing people!

Northgate in dire straits ...

Hyderabad based Northgate Technologies Ltd is in significant cost-cutting mode: the company, which also owns the social networking site Bharatstudent.com.

We’ve been tracking Northgate for a while now, and from what we’ve gathered - their business largely been dependent on their Advertising vertical - Axill. The diversification into allied businesses like Social Networking and IPTV has been a means of creating inventory for Axill. For example, Globe7 recently partnered with SingTel in Singapore to deliver free content - live TV channels, news updates, movies, games and radio content to SingTel’s Wireless@SG users.

... challenge for the company is perhaps reflected in a 21.64% quarter on quarter decline in revenue, 44% decline in net profit and 95.05% increase in Selling and Marketing expenses.

source

Life-Cycle of a Domain Name

A short note to myself ...

-> Available
-> Active (1 to 10 years - with renewals)
-> Expired (0 to 45 days)
-> Redemption (Grace Period) (30 days)
-> Pending Deletion (5 days), then Avaiable ...

online fairs ...

an example --

NACAC

Value of an education?

An interesting article by John Robb that claims due to the heightened cost of education, the "cost of higher education nearly equals the value one gains by it". He further supports it with some graphs including (reprinted w/o permission).