Canada’s Capital Pool Company
We are all looking for ways to raise money and to build or rebuild our businesses. Canada has a unique means of sourcing capital and management. It is available to emerging businesses that want to become public at a time when a traditional IPO would not be suitable. The objective of the CPC Program is to facilitate a company becoming public and using the Venture Exchange as a springboard to a more senior listing.

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We Work Better Together
An old colleague once said, “we work together apart”. Joe Murgio was the founder of a very nice project management system called onProject. I was just reading about the major airlines planning to build airborne conference rooms for hundreds of passengers/delegates, how cool is that! The fact is, we work better when we are together and that means getting people together in groups large and small as much as you can. I like the flying conference center idea, but we need to make this level of collaboration happen now for all businesses rich and poor, large and small. The great common denominator and catalyst for countless success stories is the internet.

Web-based enterprise systems work. We just added our endorsement to an outstanding free download called CrossLoop. This is one of the companies headed up by the patent holder for the Universal Shopping Cart, Lee Jay Lorenzen. Lee is the CEO of company, Altura Ventures. This is one of the products that we can use in order to get as close as we can to being face to face.

Tomorrow night a number of us gather together for the Calgary DemoCamp. Meet like-minded people, make contacts, get the word out…….together. See this Blog for a summary of the DemoCamp.

Blogs I Read Every Day and Why
Blogs are becoming one of my major news sources. With my interest in ERP, SFA, CRM, Business Process automation , enterprise computing, marketing, business intelligence, business analysis, finance, engine technology, Calgary, Silicon Valley, startups, Web 2.0, data warehousing, business intelligence, military, and etc. I have a few Blogs that I go for the straight goods. Here are the ones that have my attention these days (in no particular order):

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CBC Dragons' Den Auditions in Calgary
I wanted to alert everyone in Calgary about a special opportunity to get your company’s message heard. If you are entrepreneurial and could benefit from investment and national TV exposure, please read on. The CBC has a show called the Dragons' Den and it is properly defined and talked about at length in Kempton Lam’s Blog. Kempton and some of our other local Bloggers are getting the word out that auditions for the show will be held on April 20th and 21st right here in Calgary, it is a wonderful opportunity that shouldn’t be missed.

Please have a look at Kempton’s Blog for more information on this rare event, http://kempton.wordpress.com/tag/dragons-den/.

Following is an excerpt from a CBC announcement:

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Portable ERP is a Beautiful Thing!
 “I just want to cut down on the morning smoking, coffee drinking, and generally wasting precious time every day”, that quote was one of the main factors in the ERP decision of a successful construction service businessman. He just wanted to be the best in our city and beyond and he knew without a shadow of a doubt that he needed to change the way they were doing business. So he built a custom ERP system that worked for his industry, and then built a portable version of the ERP system and never looked back.

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