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Can Entrepreneurs Find Work-Life Balance?
Can Entrepreneurs Find A Work-Life Balance? @Startup_Canada hosts regular startup chats on Twitterverse. Recently, one of the topics was about work-life balance with entrepreneurs. Can Entrepreneurs...
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Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Ask For Crazy Things
FamilyTales‘s first $10, because we weren’t afraid to ask our customers for money I love ice cream. Mango is my favorite flavor. That was until a few days ago, during father’s day, when me and my...
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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Calm And Slow Down
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Calm And Slow Down At one of the Velocity Garage startup big dinner, Ted Livingston, the CEO of KiK, told me along with other young entrepreneurs the need to maintain...
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Help Each Other Out
The “motorcycle wave” is one of the reasons why entrepreneurs should each other out. To my parent’s dismay, I bought a motorcycle about 2 years ago. I remember my dad giving me the talk about how one...
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The Sweet Spot Between Too Much Talk And Too Much Action
Talk – Action = Shit. But, Action – Talk = Wasted Energy. You need to find the balance Happiness in all walks of life is often more about stopping than starting. More about subtracting than adding....
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I’m a speaker at the Lean Startup Conference
I’m excited to say I’ve been chosen as one of the speakers at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco that’s happening from December 9 to 11! You can even see my mug shot in their website. I still...
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My Top 7 Moments of 2013 – Ivey, Startups, Waterloo, Lean, San Francisco,...
This best sums up my 2013: “I’m fine. I’ve always had a plan.” That’s what I kept repeating to myself this whole year. But, as poet Robert Burns once said, even the best laid plans by mice and men...
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The One Reason Why Most Startups Fail And What You Should Do About It
People make mistakes. We’re only human. We fail. This is especially true of startups. As Chris Dixon once said, “the default state of a startup is failure.” It takes an extraordinary group of people...
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Why Most People Still Don’t Get “Lean Startup”
Have you noticed that “lean startup” seems to everywhere these days? Lots of startups are talking about “MVP,” “pivot” and “being lean.” People bought Eric Ries’ Lean Startup book, adopted the...
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The Most Important And Powerful Question You Can Ask Your Customers
Last week, Eli Aleyner, a director at Pivotal Labs and Managing Director of FoundersDating Toronto, asked me out for morning coffee out of the blue. Through a mutual friend, we’ve been following each...
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