Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 29, 2019
From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. In my role as a business advisor, I’ve long wondered how to pass their secrets along to other new ventures.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So very few investors want Business Plans any more.
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Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2014
Today, Voices.com is one of the fastest-growing companies in Canada—not too shabby for a business that began life at the kitchen table. Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. So one night I just sat down and pounded out the business plan.”
Up and Running
JUNE 13, 2017
A Harvard Business School report, “ The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation ,” declares that large banks approve only 33 percent of loans under $100,000, compared to 60 percent approved by small banks. This finding was based on a FDIC survey of business owners.
Up and Running
AUGUST 28, 2014
While there may be generational gaps about fashion or social conventions, millenials are often at the forefront when it comes to technology. For business owners and investors alike, crisis and change create opportunities. Adjusted for inflation, that’s close to double the amount of debt students graduated with in 1994.
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