Ivey Network British Columbia

A talk by: Chris Albinson, HBA ’90, MBA ’93
Managing Director, Panorama Capital, Menlo Park California

Presentation Venue: Clark Wilson LLP, 885 West Georgia Street, 8th Floor

Presented by the Richard Ivey School of Business BC Alumni Association as part of the IveyBC Speaker Series

Speaking to a sold-out audience from across the British Columbia venture world, Chris Albinson, Managing Director of Panorama Capital and co-founder of the C100 recommended that Canadians work to improve their branding.

Chris’ forty-five minute presentation included shocking statistics on the increasing ubiquity of the web in the lives of a large proportion of the global population.  Chris contended that the two significant downturns that we have seen in the modern internet age were in fact huge opportunities that inevitable signaled the arrival of a new phase in the growth of the web.

He indicated that the future health of the Canadian venture ecosystem requires overcoming the traditional view that others have of Canadian entrepreneurs and investors:

• We have great technology and great engineering
• We lack in commercialization savvy
• We’re not sufficiently ambitious, and sell out too soon and for too little

Chris directly challenged the audience to take greater responsibility to support each other in order to strengthen the ecosystem for everyone’s benefit.  Other venture communities from Israel, India, China etc. do this already.  The C100 is a network designed to encourage this mutually supportive behaviour amongst Canadians as well.

The Ivey Alumni Association of British Columbia thanks Chris Albinson for his insights, as well as our kind sponsors Clark Wilson, KPMG and the C100 for making this event possible.

Slides from the presentation are available as a PDF from: http://bit.ly/9aoKDA

Follow Chris at: http://twitter.com/chrisalbinson