eSight Visit: iGan Analyst tests virtual reality glasses on family member with Stargardt Disease
December 1 2018 Anand Ganeshalingam It was a cold bright day in November, and the clocks were striking ten. A crowd was bustling through Toronto’s union station, and my uncle, standing next to me, counted the chimes quietly on his fingers. He has Stargardt Disease and can’t see the clock across the room, so he […]
News Pick – Tech Startup Crowdfunding Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be – WSJ
December 7, 2015 – “Allowing everyday Americans to invest in today’s high-growth startups—picture grandma and grandpa putting a portion of their retirement savings into the next pre-IPO Facebook—has long been the dream of advocates of so-called equity crowdfunding. This dream was supposed to be enabled by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act… ‘regulated crowdfunding’ is […]
News Pick – The New Boom in Tech – WSJ
November 22, 2015 – “$571 billion. The value of tech deals announced this year world-wide, surpassing the highest full-year level on record. This year’s surge in technology deal-making is doing much to erase the dot-com boom from the record books.” Read full article at WSJ
News Pick – Canadian Tech Stocks Rally, Not Why You Might Think
March 10, 2015 There was an interesting article by John Shmuel in the Financial Post last week, and he was arguing that the massive Nasdaq rally was overshadowing something of a bigger story, the rally by tech stocks in Canada. What’s interesting here is that much of growth is due to a peculiarity of Canadian […]
