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Ah, tax season… the annual event that strikes fear into the hearts of entrepreneurs everywhere and has accountants on a two-month Red Bull and snack bar diet. In the 80s (my teen and young adult years), the villain of one of my favourite movies (The Princess Bride) was Prince Humperdinck (aided by the treacherous and…

As we left off in the <<previous blog>>, a princess was stuck fighting a dragon. Or, rather, a small-business owner was fighting the CRA for a second chance at claiming deductions that her former accountant dropped the ball on. It’s more common a situation than you’d think, with more and more provinces facing CPA shortages…

Our previous blog examined the interplay between adopting new technology and opening cybersecurity risks. The question becomes—how do you build a defensive moat against the digital flood of ne’er do wells? After all, you can’t let all tech slip you by, even if adopting a new program means opening new avenues of risk. Since Prime…

Basketball isn’t the only madness people are discussing this March.  Tracking numbers, studying people as they go about their profession, thinking of all the money on the line… these apply to fraud and cybersecurity as much as basketball bets. At least 10% of Canada’s population will experience fraud in their lifetime—about as many people as…

Like most entrepreneurs, I am far from a wallflower. Like you, I prefer sailing my own ship—especially as a leader. For the sake of a metaphor, we’ll call that being a captain. To me, being a captain means taking on challenges as they come on a ship I can design, staff with fellow scallywags, and…

When we last left off, I had hinted at taking a plunge into starting the enterprise my partner and I had talked about. Excitement? Sure. Fears? Double sure. Never mind that it was over a year since we first laid out the plan, and we were curious about whether the opportunity was still as viable…

This last week saw us help volunteer at a university case competition event, where hundreds of students from a variety of institutions across the country congregate with their teams to compete in a variety of entrepreneurial formats. It had everything from fun challenges to serious debate. I loved it—everything from a rousing game of Tchoukball…

Joe was growing a successful business, at least by most measures of success. However, motion (how busy you are) and progress (how far that effort is getting you) can often be confused with one another. Like many businesses I know, Joe was busy 12 hours a day and often cash-tight. The money didn’t come in…

There are no guarantees in life and even fewer in entrepreneurship. Building a business is unbelievably daunting. Even talking about business can tire you. As I try to write this, I’ve been distracted a dozen times by those irritating pop-up thoughts. You know—the things you promised to do today but ran out of time for?…

Defining Continuity is quite simple. It means the unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over a period of time, whether that be an action or a feature. However, as we see on this blog, things get more philosophical when we apply this simple term to growing your business. After exploring Capital and Capacity…