How fucked up is your management?
Itâs taken me 15 years in this industry to figure out how to be any good at what I do. I donât know how to write it all…
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Building the 21st century business council
The Council of Canadian Innovatorsâ (CCI) origin story mirrors that of a tech startup in many ways. The organization started…
Why AI is the most overused term in legaltech
My team and I attended several legaltech-focused conferences this month and of course, as expected, machine learning and AI…
Why we chose to rename our startup (and what it means to rebrand)
If you find this blog post, it means I will no longer be the CEO of Qimple… instead, as of September 26, I find myself…
How new SaaS companies should be using content marketing
CMIâs 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Survey found that 88% of B2B companies are using content marketing. Why?…
How innovation-based work permits could help Canadian businesses stay globally competitive
To be competitive in our global economy, Canadian businesses need the right people and access to critical skills to deliver…
What vegetables, robots, and AR mean for the airport of the future
Globally, over 8 million people fly every day, and the start and end point of every journey â whether for business or pleasure…
Building a collaborative global FinTech ecosystem
âSoftware is eating the world,â explained Marc Andreessen, Netscape co-founder and partner at venture capitalist firm Andreessen…
Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on the wrong way to run a billion-dollar company in 2016
When employees of Dropbox walked into their new San Francisco office this spring, they came face-to-face with a 5-foot-tall…
Ask @StartupCFO: Am I settling when it comes to driving company performance?
I was with one of my CEOs this morning. As we walked through the highs and lows of his business I made a suggestion that I…
Why legaltech won’t bring about ‘The End of Lawyers’
Six years ago, Richard Susskind published The End of Lawyers?, a book with a scary title but incredibly positive implications…
Ask @StartupCFO: should I talk to corporate development?
Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, is a smart dude. Founders rightfully listen to what he has to say. One of his many…
Canadian banks vs. FinTechs: a zero-sum game?
Itâs easy to be anti-bank. The global financial crisis is not easily forgotten, and we are all now aware of the excess that…
Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on using “the steak clause” to win your next negotiation
In the 2001 hit movie A Beautiful Mind, we got a peek into the brain of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. Brilliant…
How government regulators can better embrace the sharing economy
Where governments step in, entrepreneurship tends to die. In the early days of co-founding GoFetch, I have learned that…