Through a few different routes, I'm one degree away from Rick Segal.  Segal was at Microsoft and I know a few folks who know him.  He was also at Chapters, and back in the days he was there everyone in the Microsoft partner community wanted a gig at Chapters.  He also did a stint at MicroForum, but we won't mention that.

He's currently a partner a JLA Ventures, which is perhaps where our connection is closest.  JLA Ventures was part of the VC behind www.grocerygateway.com, which was imason's first big .com customer.  Although I never worked with Segal, I did work with one of the other partners at JLA.

In any event, I follow Segal's blog "Doing the Voodo VCs do in Canada".  He's got some amazing insight into the market and he sees a lot of proposals.  Rick is part of the group that is managing the BlackBerry Partners Fund, which isn't a surprise because Jim Balsillie is on the board for JLA, so he must be seeing some pretty cool mobile stuff.  If you want to get into the mind of a VC (something that you should only do after consulting with your doctor), then you should really check out Segal's blog.

Some recent posts that I thought were really insightful or just plain funny:

Anyway, check out Segal here - funny, insightful and frequent.