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RBC and Microsoft announced the launch of their new ‘Go Digital’ program, which is designed to help businesses that are facing challenges with their digital transformation. Go Digital will provide businesses with technology solutions from Microsoft, and financing advice from RBC in order to help them begin their digital transformation. A report from IT World […]

Understanding what makes your customers tick can help move your business forward at a lightning pace. But as you look to improve the connection you have forged with your clients, you may need—and want—to rely on their feedback to help you make changes. However, customers are sometimes reluctant to say what they really think about […]

Harry Hopkins was one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s closet and more productive advisors. He served as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce in 1939 and 1940 and as a liaison between the U.S., Russia and Great Britain during World War II. While serving in the Roosevelt administration, Hopkins was dying of stomach cancer. Even though […]

How to Start a Business in 2019 Nowadays, many people are seeing the benefits of starting up their own business. The process may not be entirely easy to go through – but with some finances and a little bit of determination, a person can become quite successful. You just have to follow the advice of […]

Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson’s got a well-earned reputation for being the sort of swashbuckling character who never shies away from a risk. Which might lead you to think he’d advise would-be entrepreneurs to jump into new ventures with both feet, quitting their day jobs and going all in on their dreams. But on his […]

Solopreneurship is about as small as a small business gets. As a solopreneur, you don’t just run an entire business, you are the business. This means you are the CEO, accountant, manager, marketer, and what have you. Or, simply put, you wear all the hats. Sounds scaringly good, right? The probability of success, however, won’t […]

INTRODUCTION The world of startups is a dynamic place — for entrepreneurs, there is seldom any promise of vested interest or reward once they hit the ground running. Private equity and venture capital firms enjoy a hefty profit because they are supposedly good at identifying which startups sizzle and which ones fizzle, but is there a way […]

    When Jack Zhang decided to launch his cross-border payments start-up Airwallex, he did so without overly validating the idea so he would not talk himself out of it prematurely. The strategy flies in the face of usual corporate practice, but it has more than paid off for Zhang and his co-founders. In March […]

If any of you read one of my blog posts entitled “Six Things VCs look for in an Investment,” you may remember that the first entry on the list is “An Extraordinary Entrepreneur with Unique Insight.” I recently watched an outstanding presentation called “How great leaders inspire action” by Simon Sinek (embedded at the bottom […]

Reason 1: Market Problems A major reason why companies fail, is that they run into the problem of their being little or no market for the product that they have built. Here are some common symptoms: There is not a compelling enough value proposition, or compelling event, to cause the buyer to actually commit to […]