Once upon a time, some old perv told me to “choose who chooses you” with regards to dating. Don’t waste your time trying to convince the unconvincable, lower your standards slightly and focus on warm leads only, he told me. This was pretty mind blowing advice for a lonely young man, and I have since found… Continue Reading
Getting a lot of emails from companies lately requesting your consent to stay on their email list? That’s because Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation is changing on July 1, 2014, at which point sending commercial messages to those who have not consented becomes subject to a fine of up to $10 million in this country. The new… Continue Reading
The competition to acquire Suroco Energy between Petroamerica Oil and VETRA Holding is heating up this morning, with Suroco re-affirming their support for a deal with Petroamerica and calling out VETRA’s questionable tactics to gain support for their bid. According to today’s Suroco release, Vetra is paying a proxy solicitation fee to Investment Advisors who solicit Suroco… Continue Reading
A new offer has emerged for Suroco Energy that I feel is unimpressive. Suroco signed a friendly agreement with Petroamerica Oil to merge the two small Colombian oil companies in late April, 2014. That deal was expected to close later this month. Then today, VETRA, a private firm which Suroco is partnered with on the Surioriente Block in Colombia’s… Continue Reading
Vancouver Canucks owner Aquilini Investment Group seeks to expand its empire to oil pipelines
If you are looking for a reason to get bullish on future oil prices look no further. The chart below is one of the most bullish charts in the energy patch today. This chart tells us two critical things. First, it tells us that the horizontal oil boom is due almost entirely to only two… Continue Reading
At the conclusion of my Skype interview with Brent Cook a couple of weeks ago, he told me to reach out to the folks at Focus Ventures to learn a bit more about what they are doing at their Bayovar 12 phosphate project in Northern Peru. I responded that I had heard quite a bit… Continue Reading
Bill Bishop’s The New Factory is a worthwhile 10 minute read for entrepreneurs. The author suggests that traditional business models, which focus first on products and services, are vulnerable in the new economy. The new factory, as the author calls it, is about choosing your customers first, and a big idea that draws them in.… Continue Reading
I don’t know if VICE Media Inc. is really worth the billions founder Shane Smith says it is, but I do know that he’s a great salesman. Smith believes the youth media company he founded in Montreal in 1994 will haul US $1 billion in revenue this year with 50% profit margins, telling Bloomberg VICE could… Continue Reading
Spritz will change the world. This screen you’re “reading” is essentially just a digital stone tablet. Think about how far communication tech has advanced. From carrier pigeons carrying tiny notes, to fibre optic cables carrying zeros and ones. One thing has remained constant, acting as a bottleneck to the speed with which a literate human… Continue Reading
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our own hopes and dreams we have to be reminded that others have them too. And no matter what they are, they can be just as fierce about achieving them. This was brought home to me last week, when I was invited to give a speech to a… Continue Reading
Many people have said to me in the past month, “I’m going to buy a home.” Or, “What do you think of the idea of me buying a home?” I like the second batch of people. They are my friends and it seems like they are sincerely asking for my advice. And I’m going to… Continue Reading
They just wouldn’t have it. The Conservative Canadian government wanted a new outside competitor to start driving prices down in the local communications market, and Verizon was making all the right noises, but the big Canadian telcos just wouldn’t let it happen. The jury is out on whether admitting a company like Verizon (VZ:NASDAQ) into… Continue Reading
Recently, we had the pleasure of sitting down with two of exploration geology’s brightest young stars; Dr. Alan Wainwright and Daniel MacNeil. Dr. Wainwright (Chief Geologist) and Mr. MacNeil (Project Acquisition and Development) allowed us to visit them in the humble Vancouver offices of their current venture, Desert Star Resources (DSR:TSXV). Mr. MacNeil has over… Continue Reading
This morning, Canada Carbon (CCB:TSXV) released further drill results from the winter exploration program being done at their Miller graphite project in Quebec. Since discovering the VN3 vein in December, the company has focused exploration work there. In hole DDH13-15, they intersected 1.8m of 48.6% Cg including a 0.5m intersection of 63.2% Cg. This hole… Continue Reading
