How to evaluate technology companies: AUDIO

Helping clients select stocks is challenging since it involves extensive research and market knowledge.

This is especially the case with volatile and riskier stocks, such as media and technology holdings.

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To help advisors delve into the tech sector, we offered up some tips and trends analysis last week via an audio interview with Cameron Chell, CEO of Podium Ventures in Calgary. His company invests in high-tech startups.

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In this follow-up segment, Chell discusses how you and your clients can properly evaluate a media or technology company. He talks about the different phases they go through, and reveals why some of these businesses fail.

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