• TechCocktail Conference in Chicago

    On Thursday, May 29th in Chicago some of the biggest brains in technology are congregating at the first TechCocktail Conference to teach, learn, and converse.
    Eric Olson and Frank Gruber have organized what’s going to be an incredible event. Take a look at the speakers list: successful entrepreneurs, well-known VCs, and more. Brilliant minds all […]

  • Songs of the Year - Best of 07: Number 2

    Whooops. Must have been the travel schedule. I wrote the previous posts on a flight between NY and Dallas. Without the benefit of the net I accidently skipped my second favourite song of 2007.
    And it’s one that’s definitely worth coming back for.
    In April of 07 the Arctic Monkeys - clearly my favourite band of […]

  • In Austin

    I’ve been out of touch with too many for three weeks. Hello? Hi. I’m here. Here for the past three weeks has been a difficult place to define.
    Currently I’m in Austin. It was a long trip. Last Week I was in San Diego with Alex at ETech. It was a trip. The week before […]

  • The Change Function

    “Want the big idea? Make a product that makes everything I have easy to use”
    - my dad, in response to hearing I wanted to be an entrepreneur
    Eight years later the gravity of my dad’s statement is greater than ever. The impact that a product’s usability has on its ultimate market performance continues to grow.
    I’ve […]

  • Songs of the Year - Best of 07: Number 1

    One trend that I love to track is the progression of my musical tastes. I can literally look back over the years and see the influences that created subtle changes in taste that ultimately led to new genres I love.
    The genre that has consumed my rca-cord for the past three years has been brit […]

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Hi, I'm Fraser and this is my personal site where I write about the things I'm interested in: start-up strategy, the web, music, and life.

My days are spent commercializing emerging technologies. Currently I'm helping to deliver the promise of semantic web to the consumer market at AdaptiveBlue. Previously I was at Trivaris, a Canadian seed stage investment firm.

I am a co-founder of Innovation Night, a community driven event supporting entrepreneurship in Canadian and US cities.

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