Dive into the archives.
- Wallstrip / Feedburner
Congratulations are in order to two friends who’ve recently lived through one of the sweetest moments in the life of an entrepreneur - a successful exit.
I first met Howard less than a year ago for dinner in Toronto. The conversation circled around the power of a decentralized community, social media, and… stocks. Howard had […]
- Fill in the Blank: On Entrepreneurship in Canada
The Council on Competitiveness has released a report on US Entrepreneurship titled Where America Stands: Entrepreneurship [pdf].
An interesting and short read.Fill in the blank:
Given the low cost/low time required to start a business in Canada, Canada’s level of entrepreneurship is especially ______________.
[via MaRS Blog]
- Drowning Puppies (or, How the Golden Horseshoe Region Can Better Support Innovation)
Iain Klugman, Communitech’s President, spoke at the last GHVF meeting on March 21st on lessons learned from the Waterloo Region and what it will take to build a successful tech industry in the Golden Horseshoe.
The real gem, the uncensored piece of advice, came in the Q&A period. In response to a question of what […]
- KUBA - A Change Management Tool
During a time of change it’s critical to manage all stakeholders through every step:
Know
Understand
Believe
Act
It deconstructs nicely - individuals can’t act until they believe. They won’t believe until they understand. And they can’t understand until they know.
So where to start? By communicating (repeatedly).
I believe attribution for this eventually works its way back to the former […]
- Innovation Capitalists
The Forethought section of March’s Harvard Business Review has a piece titled Meet the Innovation Capitalists.
“Innovation capitalists are firms… that seek out and evaluate ideas and technologies from the inventor community and other external sources. They develop and refine those ideas to the point where their market potential is validated, and they pitch them […]
