This Issue:
- Sharing Knowledge
- Community
- Acting Globally
- Technology
- Innovation
- Finance
- Entrepreneurship
About our second issue
In our newest Finance issue, Link celebrates MIT Enterprise Forum’s Global Broadcast sponsored by NASDAQ and titled “Are You Ready for IPO?” We address the questions surrounding public financing with the Global Broadcast panelist Jonathan Goldstein. Ann Winblad reveals to us the secrets of Venture Capitalists. Bob McCooey, Nasdaq’s Head of Global […]
In this exclusive interview Bob McCooey, NASDAQ’s head of Global Capital Markets, takes us behind the scenes of global financing. From the three key strategic areas surrounding public companies, to the logic behind NASDAQ’s unique electronic trading system, to the world’s hottest capital markets and the 144A option, Bob unveils the inner workings of public financing in the global marketplace.
BIO
Ann Winblad is the co-founder and a Managing Director of Hummer Winblad, a VC firm in Silicon Valley focused on software. Ann began her career as a programmer and, in 1976, co-founded Open Systems, Inc., an accounting software company, with a $500 investment. She operated Open Systems profitably for six years and then sold it […]
BIO
Seymour Schulich is a Canadian, self-made billionaire whose career has spanned financial markets to the mining and oil industries. He is among Canada’s greatest Philanthropists having donated in excess of $200 million to universities, and endowing libraries, medical health centres, lecture and music halls. Over 650 scholarships are awarded annually to students in Schulich schools. […]
BIO
Suranga Chandratillake, founder of Blinkx, is a technology innovator with over seven years of frontline experience. He received his master’s in computer science from the University of Cambridge, England, specializing in distributed processing architectures. After university, Suranga worked as a software developer for Morgan Stanley, creating global risk resolution systems, and next-generation voice recognition technologies […]
Interview
Forum Link: What do you look for when investing in a business?
Jonathan Goldstein: We look for growing profitable businesses that don’t need money. It may sound strange, but our goal is to provide $60 to $600 million to companies that don’t need it. Often our investment is used to provide liquidity to founding shareholders who […]
BIO
Joost Bonsen is a member of the Global Board of Directors of the MIT Enterprise Forum. Joost studies innovation everywhere, from invention in research labs through action in entrepreneurial startups and innovation ecosystems generally. He received his bachelor’s degree in Bio-Electrical Engineering from MIT. He most recently finished the Management of Technology program at MIT […]
Bio
Mark Lawrence, Chair of the MIT Enterpise Forum of Toronto, recently sat down with Forum Link Editor Peter Zak to talk about the benefits of the Capital Pool Company (CPC) program at the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) Venture Exchange. The program has attracted the attention of many international and US-based junior companies wishing to go […]
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