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So you’ve got an informal breakfast meeting in Toronto with one of Canada’s premier VCs. This superb opportunity to establish a long-term relationship depends as much on the restaurant as it does the industry savvy you demonstrate.

While Toronto has dozens of breakfast dining options, three stand head-and-shoulders above the rest – for various reasons – and the one chosen says a lot about you and the VC.

Tim Horton’s, the Great White North’s cousin to Krispy Kreme (sans the industrial donut extruder and roller assembly line), offers a ‘shock and awe’ inducing array of donuts, bagels and uniquely Canadian breakfast pastries, most notably the ‘duchy.’ The eats are great – and you’ll never tire of endless ‘pass the duchy par the left hand side’ quips – but Tim Horton’s is perhaps a little too informal for that crucial first meeting.

The King Edwards Hotel (”King Eddie” in local parlance) offers the classy, upscale dining experience you’d expect of a 4-star hotel named after British royalty (not the heir apparents mind you). You can’t go wrong with the King Eddie, but it’s an inherently safe bet that may be a bit too formal for an informal meeting.

Le Petit Dejeuner is a favorite with Toronto locals in-the-know and for several good reasons. First and foremost the food is 4-star. The ‘eggy bread’ (French toast that’s nicely carmelized) and the fluffy scrambled eggs are particular favorites. The décor is eclectic enough to induce grins and serve as an ice breaker, but is not overtly kitsch. There’s a quiet hum from other patrons, but this serves as white noise to keep your conversation contained to your table. The booths are too small for more than four (two if you’re both of defensive lineman proportions), but this is about the only issue. Le Petit Dejeuner is an excellent place for an informal business meeting, and an even better place for Sunday breakfast. Score!

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The Blogosphere…Our blog is not even two weeks old, but we’re already getting lots of e-mail from people we don’t even know. We sent all our friends links to our blog when we first started it. Glenn Fleishman included a link to it on his Wi-Fi Net News blog. I guess word of the MoPR blog is spreading.

Knowing that other people are reading and enjoying — dare I say, even learning — from our blog is pretty cool, and we’re enjoying creating the posts.Taking the blog to the next Web 2.0 level is going to be fun. The next level is full of interactivity between you and us… between your search for knowledge and our wisdom; between our wisdom and the wisdom stored on the Internet; between the wisdom stored on the Internet and your personal pages.

It will take a lot of work to find the right harmonic between our posts and our audience, but no one is more committed than the creative people of Mobility Public Relations.

More to come.

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Battle tested in the most challenging of environments (the MoPR road trip), the Cingular 8125 is the MoPR camera phone of choice. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera that was able to capture almost all the important moments of our lives, three seconds after they took place.Melissa’s takes pictures only in sepia now (on purpose).

This phone rocks! It has Windows Mobile 5.0 with Outlook, so we get all our email right off our server. Synchs our calendars and contacts. It has Word, Excel and Powerpoint. It even has Adobe Acrobat! I read my efaxes right off my email on my phone! (Yeah, they’re all spam faxes, but that’s not the point… I can read them on my phone!).

We used the speaker phone on mine for a conference call in Vancouver.

The best feature, besides the camera of course, is Bubble Breaker. Bubble Breaker is Tetris on acid. We’re all competing now for high scores.

The Cingular 8125 is made by Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC under the name “the Wizard.” (If anyone from HTC marketing is reading this blog, we love your phone and want to represent you in North America.) T-Mobile sells a version, and I’ve seen this phone all over Europe. There is a web community dedicated to it, too.

When you see pictures on this blog of any of the MoPR gang, chances are it was taken by “The Blog Cam” — our much beloved Cingular 8125 mobile phone.