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My Advice To Entrepreneurs: Consider Canada For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Photo credit: Canada flag from Shutterstock. One of the countries gaining momentum with the early-stage start-up community is Canada, and for good reason. While I’m now based in Redwood City, our origins 20 years ago started in Calgary, Canada. Immigrating from Canada to the U.S. The Quality of Life is Superior.

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Our 2014 in review

Version One Ventures

We remain geographically agnostic: a 50-50 split between Canada and the US with the highest concentration in Toronto (6), SF/Bay Area (5) and Seattle (4). We participated in these follow-on deals to further support our founders. Collectively, the amount raised by all our companies this year was $160M.

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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

Happy Canada Day to our friends and colleagues north of the border, and Happy Fourth of July to those of you south of the border. Blockstack announced that it intends to raise $50 million in a token sale that would leverage the SEC’s Regulation A+ crowdfunding exemption. We hope everyone is having a great start to summer.

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Retail Reimagined: 9 Trends for the Future of Physical Retail

ConversionXL

Shopify research shows: 46% of buyers in the US and Canada have made purchases from local, independently owned businesses since the beginning of the pandemic. For example, when the initial waves of the shutdowns hit Canada, Great Lakes Brewing had 15,000 gallons of beer sitting in their silos. And no one to drink it. Image source ).

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[Review] How Asian Women Lead

YoungUpstarts

At its core, “ How Asian Women Lead “ narrates the personal and professional stories of four Asian women selected from a list of 50 interviewees. It weaves together academic insights from sociology, cultural and gender studies with perspectives culled from ethnographic interviews conducted by the author.

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What Stock Brokers Do and How to Engage their Services

The Startup Magazine

In the United Kingdom, they are called Chartered Financial Planners while in Canada, they are called Chartered Strategic Wealth Professionals. In the United States, they may be called Chartered Financial Consultants, Chartered Financial Planners, or Chartered Financial Analysts. Before engaging a broker, you need to consider some factors.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

SAS Canada is a good case in point. So a small group within SAS, led by Wally Thiessen, built a team of 250 “customer champions” along with 50 “super champions” to spread the word for them. It’s this simple: You’ve got something to sell. Your customers don’t. SAS software was doing an excellent job of keeping up with customer needs.

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