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	<title>Mike Volker - Vancouver&#039;s Green Angel and Tech Innovator</title>
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		<title>Capital Prohibitions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Securities regulations severely limit access to capital for start-up ventures. The average citizen is precluded from investing because of these regulations. The government's goal of protecting investors is achieved by preventing them from investing! What can be done to give companies better access to capital and better protect investors?]]></description>
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		<title>Musings from the Consumer Electronics Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I made my annual pilgrimage to the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show &#38; Conference in Las Vegas (CES) &#8211; an annual event that I&#8217;ve been coming to for many years (actually, I came to the first COMDEX in 1979 as an exhibitor and when it disappeared in 2003, I started attended the CES [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Basics &#8211; Negotiating a Term Sheet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;Term Sheet&#8221; is a document that summarizes the terms of an investment. It&#8217;s usually proposed by the investor(s) and spells out what they want in order to proceed with an investment. I&#8217;m not sure why it&#8217;s not called a &#8220;Terms Sheet&#8221; since there are many terms in it. Perhaps that came about because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shares vs Stock Options</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article discusses the tax issues around issuing shares vs granting options to employees of both public and private Canadian companies. There are major tax implications that are unknown to most people - including the politicians who are trying to encourage entrepreneurship.]]></description>
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		<title>Business Basics &#8211; Introduction</title>
		<link>http://mikevolker.com/business-basics-introduction/</link>
		<comments>http://mikevolker.com/business-basics-introduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I&#8217;ve written a number of articles to assist entrepreneurs, especially tech entrepreneurs, with an understanding of business matters. On the Simon Fraser University Website, much of this can be found at www.sfu.ca/~mvolker/biz.  These articles are in the process of being updated, with new ones added, and will gradually start showing up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Canada Innovative</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation is a popular subject these days. It was raised by Obama in his State of the Union address as a major challenge for Americans. Here, in Canada, many think tanks, committees, interest groups, etc are rallying to the call for more Innovation.
Some of the issues: why don&#8217;t we have more RIM-like companies? Why do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in Greentech Start-ups</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the October 28, 2010 Vancouver Greentech Exchange, Mike talked about investment options for investors, challenges for entrepreneurs, incentives and impediments to innovation and finally explained a new investment vehicle &#8211; GreenAngel Energy Corp &#8211; could benefit both investors and entrepreneurs. Here is a summary of Mike&#8217;s talk:






I&#8217;ve been investing in start-ups for almost 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Innovative Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail reported today (Oct 13, 2010) that a blue-chip panel of experts (including me, so maybe it&#8217;s not entirely blue-chip) has come up with recommendations to turn Canada into a &#8220;nation of innovators&#8221;. (see story). The complete report is available on this website by clicking here.
Some of the recommendations elsewhere on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angel investor returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 22:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently  (Sep 28,2010) I went to a presentation in Bellingham by Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University in Oregon. Wiltbank does research on angel investing and the returns enjoyed by angels. He looked at 1000 &#8220;exits&#8221; in North America &#8211; i.e. companies that gave a payback to their investors (however large or small, including zero return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The HST Debate: The Outcome</title>
		<link>http://mikevolker.com/the-hst-debate-get-the-facts-then-decide/</link>
		<comments>http://mikevolker.com/the-hst-debate-get-the-facts-then-decide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BC&#8217;ers voted against the HST last week (Aug 26, 2011) in favor of re-instating a double tax system. According to many press articles, it appears that those who voted to keep the HST were better educated, more prosperous, and self employed business people. Did the others not get the big picture? Or did they vote [...]]]></description>
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