After graduating from the Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology, I opened a small recording studio.  In effect, I became a freelance audio producer.  I started to notice a number of freelance voice talent would contact me and ask if I had any connections to jobs. I asked myself: “What if I transformed my brochure-style […]

Up to 93 percent of our communication is nonverbal. This means that our body language, facial expressions and other nonverbal behavior is even more important than our verbal content. Yet most people don’t even think about what their body language is saying to others. As a result, many business people don’t ever realize how much […]

Behind every successful company, there’s a team of people working tirelessly to bring an idea to life. For Room Hints cofounder Tiffany Willson, this (often romanticized) hustle has stuck with her since the age of three: “I’ve always had that fire in my gut to start something.” And so she did. We sat down with Willson […]

Setbacks happen so often in the life of an entrepreneur that I believe our ability to cope with them goes a long way towards predicting our success. That’s why I spend a lot of time looking into how others bounce back from business failures. I didn’t think I’d find part of the answer to dealing […]

If you are looking to entice an entrepreneur, just use simple, sweet words like easy, quick, and minimal effort. If you don’t believe that these words ring true, I urge you to check out the number of pizza boxes, soda cans, and Starbucks cups in the trash at any startup. For entrepreneurs, there is never […]

Community management is one of the hardest roles to hire for in tech right now. Yes, you read that right — community managers, not developers. You see, it’s not about scarcity of talent; it’s about the quality of talent. Most folks assume that they can hire just any college grad who was “born social” and, […]

There are numerous ways to get your company off the ground, from bootstrapping and raising a traditional seed round to crowdfunding your debut product on services like Kickstarter. Each option comes with its own unique upsides and downsides, and so to bring clarity to the subject, we sat down with the founders of Turf Geography Club, Coupons at Checkout, […]