My thanks to Peter Evans of the Toronto Venture Group, Mars and Riverdale Partners for comping me a pass to the Canadian Venture Forum. This is a great opportunity to communicate what's the current sense of things in VC land and bring it out to the wider community. I'm a terrible live-blogger. I really like to have some time to digest and see Remarkk as a place for context and analysis rather than a news feed. However the TorCamp Skype Chat Swarm is the place to be for live coverage. I am using as the place to capture my notes, and the wider TorCamp community is following along remotely. I haven't blogged about this innovation yet, but Tom Purves covered it pretty well at its birth. Since its inception 6 weeks ago, the Swarm has been a locus of self-organization, rants, praise, new projects, new events and even business deals and partnerships. Swarmies are hungry, entrepreneurial and smart as a whip. The Swarm is operating as a Collective Intelligence - ask it any question, it will have an answer. Add my skypename for entry: markkuznicki, or ask any TorCamper.

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