Align interests or… FAIL.

5 more reasons to go with the little guy.

VC musical chairs continues: Marc Faucher departed Summerhill Venture Partners to join JLA Ventures and drive their investment efforts in the new BlackBerry Partners Fund. / And here is Rick Segal on the the Berry Fund.

IDC released a list of Canadian web 2.0 companies to watch.

Links galore: Resources for founders in Vancouver.

How to interview a startup. / And how to interview a VC.

Y Combinator, six weeks in.

b5media CEO Jeremy Wright’s open letter offer to buy nearly imploded Know More Media. / And his thoughts on the infeasibility of Small-Scale Blog Consolidation.