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story by cheryl mahaffy photos by amy bizOVie As a handful of angels with money to invest kibitz over coffee and pastries in anticipation of Edmonton’s monthly VentureAlberta Forum meeting, Randy Thompson stands at the centre of the action. One minute he’s engrossed in conversation with two women who, if suitably impressed, might inject money and/or expertise into a startup being featured today; the next, he’s opening the forum with a confession that his car “drove itself” to the Royal Mayfair Golf Club while he was double-tasking on the cellphone, despite three reminders that today’s venue was switched to the Hotel Macdonald. Attention to such details may not be a strong suit for this slightly rumpled serial entrepreneur. But those who work with him cut him some slack, not only because he’s a genuinely nice guy, but because he excels at pulling people together to get enterprises off the ground. Thompson has invented, invested in, crashed and championed so many startups he can hardly track them himself. He’s a “firestarter,” says Tim Howard, a Calgary-based strategy analyst with VentureAlberta, adding that Thompson has the ability to bring others on board “to keep feeding the fire.” fIREstarter ranDy thompson breathes liFe into promising early-stage companies as nait’s First entrepreneur in resiDence. cover story v3.2 2010 45 people Once an unlikely entrepreneur, ventureAlberta forum president and ceO Randy thompson loves the drama of the “startup storm.”
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