Garage Canada is the first international affiliate of Garage Technology Ventures in Palo Alto. This relationship with Silicon Valley, along with the team’s global connections, provide for direct access to a rich and diverse pool of technical and market expertise, in addition to invaluable follow-on investors, customers and value-added networks.
Our team is supported by other highly experienced external advisors to the fund, including prominent Canadian, American and European venture professionals and senior executives.
Mission
Our team is focused on one primary mission: working with the management teams we invest in to build great global companies. We believe that early-stage investing requires teamwork and a common vision of what needs to be done to build strong foundations.
Our approach begins with people. We are committed to ensuring that Management has the right resources and our full support. We believe that great technology companies have a global mindset, fast clock-speeds, clearly defined value propositions to their customers, well-managed intellectual property and that their business models are based on assumptions and processes that are actively monitored and consistently managed.
We fund entrepreneurs who seek to be winners and companies that will grow to define and dominate their target markets.
For more:http://www.garagecanada.com/
Monday, April 9, 2007
How To Know Which Airline Is Offering Best Deal
Say you are looking for a deal on an airline flight. The Internet abounds with offers for low fares. You can find them on the major Internet travel agent sites like Orbitz, Travelocity or on more specialized sites like Cheaptickets.com or Sidestep.com.
Those can be useful, but they have limits. How do you know, for instance, that that low fare really is a deal? A number of Web sites have recently been created that specialize in spotting true bargains. All of them do what any bargain hunter is supposed to do: watch the marketplace for anomalies, whether they are money-saving air tickets, discount hotel rooms or frequent-flier bonuses.
Farecast.com, which gathered a following with technology that enables it to predict the direction of airfares on a particular route, is back with another innovation that it says can distinguish the best deals in air travel.
Hugh Crean, the chief executive of the Seattle company, said, “We flipped the deal concept.” He said that to determine whether a deal was anything more than a marketing tool, the Web site mined its database of airfares to look for good prices relative to others and those in the past.
What makes this an ideal task for computers, he said, is that a person looking for the best fare for a flight on a particular day from, say, San Francisco, would have to study 600 possibilities from each of the area’s three major airports. Since it was already tracking price data from airlines, Farecast was not daunted by the amount of information.
“We are the only ones who look at everything every day,” Mr. Crean said. Artificial intelligence was all that was needed to spot the deals.
On its site, a person goes to the Farecast Deals section and clicks on the departure city and a list of deals pops up. Each entry includes an explanation, like “record low” or “save $249 off the average low.”
For More:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/business/07money.html?em&ex=1176264000&en=f3890c393d8c85d5&ei=5087%0A
Those can be useful, but they have limits. How do you know, for instance, that that low fare really is a deal? A number of Web sites have recently been created that specialize in spotting true bargains. All of them do what any bargain hunter is supposed to do: watch the marketplace for anomalies, whether they are money-saving air tickets, discount hotel rooms or frequent-flier bonuses.
Farecast.com, which gathered a following with technology that enables it to predict the direction of airfares on a particular route, is back with another innovation that it says can distinguish the best deals in air travel.
Hugh Crean, the chief executive of the Seattle company, said, “We flipped the deal concept.” He said that to determine whether a deal was anything more than a marketing tool, the Web site mined its database of airfares to look for good prices relative to others and those in the past.
What makes this an ideal task for computers, he said, is that a person looking for the best fare for a flight on a particular day from, say, San Francisco, would have to study 600 possibilities from each of the area’s three major airports. Since it was already tracking price data from airlines, Farecast was not daunted by the amount of information.
“We are the only ones who look at everything every day,” Mr. Crean said. Artificial intelligence was all that was needed to spot the deals.
On its site, a person goes to the Farecast Deals section and clicks on the departure city and a list of deals pops up. Each entry includes an explanation, like “record low” or “save $249 off the average low.”
For More:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/business/07money.html?em&ex=1176264000&en=f3890c393d8c85d5&ei=5087%0A
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41 pounds ,New Fighter Of Junk Mail
41pounds.org, junk mail battling organization. I hate junk mail more than anything– every time I open my mailbox and it’s overflowing with crap, I can’t help but to think how much of a waste it is. Why can’t Dominos Pizza use the freaking internet to advertise? Did you know that every year you get about (you guessed it) 41 lbs. of junk mail? 41pounds is equally fed up, and they’ve decided to do something about it. For $41 per 5 years of service, they will contact the 20 or so companies that are responsible for filling your mailbox with pizza coupons and have you taken off of their list. On top of that, they’ll donate more than half of their profits to charities supporting education, conservation, and re-forestation efforts. From all of us (except those of you who make money off of junk mail marketing): thank you 41pounds.org! More freaky facts about junk mail after el jumpo…
For more:http://idunited.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/41poundsorg/
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Etailer
Online retailer 20ltd sells no more than 20 items at a time, each of which are highly exclusive and only available in small numbers. Goods currently on offer range from GBP 2,900 white buffalo horn sunglasses (edition of 10), to a GBP 9,000 hammock covered in cashmere and black fox fur (thankfully for black foxes, only 5 of those were made). All items are exclusive to 20ltd, and not sold anywhere else. As soon as a product is sold out, it's replaced by a new object of desire.
The British retailer is backed by private investment, and will operate solely online. Calling itself an "etailer of authentic, ingenious, beautiful and unexpected things," 20ltd hopes to reach a global audience, including rapidly growing luxury markets like Russia, China and the Middle East. The website is currently available in English, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
For more:www.20ltd.com
The British retailer is backed by private investment, and will operate solely online. Calling itself an "etailer of authentic, ingenious, beautiful and unexpected things," 20ltd hopes to reach a global audience, including rapidly growing luxury markets like Russia, China and the Middle East. The website is currently available in English, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
For more:www.20ltd.com
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