Welcome to the Queen Street Commons
The Queen Street Commons is a simple idea. Bring interesting people together to share space, services, and costs. The commons is set up with private work spaces, common rooms, meeting rooms, a...
View ArticleWhat is the core of the new banking model? Trust!
The Theory in Action What will the new banking system be like in practice? It will be all about how a bank uses Trust. The traditional balance sheet will diminish in relative importance and trust will...
View ArticleWhere your job went and why it is not coming back
This is a picture of the big trends in employment. Not pretty. Now ask will there be more or less jobs in Finance in the next 20 years? How about Government? So where is the opportunity? It is in the...
View ArticleArtisanal Food Processing
On the day that Kelloggs buys Pringles for $2.7 billion - it nice to know that a new Artisanal Food Processing world is emerging. Below is an excerpt from Adam Davidson’s latest New York Times Magazine...
View ArticleFrom Viagra to Kombucha – the rise of the artisanal economy
The artisanal economy rises from the ashes of the old – I like this idea of a Culinary Incubator – Don’t you? Three well-known tenants have already signed leases on production space.Photo: Chris...
View ArticleDo you want to take charge of your health? Learn More at the Queen St Commons...
Are you interested in taking charge of your health? If so we, Robin and Robert Paterson, are putting on a short Lunch and Learn at the Queen St Commons 224 Queen St at 12 noon April 11. We plan to...
View ArticleWhy I think Networked Artisanal StartUps are so important to PEI
We on PEI have to have thousands of new young immigrants living here in the next 10 years. So what will pull them here? There are few jobs. 65% of GDP is government and even that is shrinking. They...
View ArticleWhy I am backing Inspired Farmers – #localresiliency #localfood
I am backing the Inspired Farmers Project - they will start the first demo for Urban Farming in Charlottetown next week. The project is lead by Karen Murchison of the Queen St Commons and her partners...
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