Cathy Yeomans, Imagine Public Relations, White Rock, BC, imaginepr@shaw.ca An enthusiastic and intelligent friend of mine recently shared she was starting a business. Her concept sounded great, but when I asked to see her business plan she felt it was ‘irrelevant’. If you think like that, your business may already be in the toilet. No [...]
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Learn from your mistakes!
Rose-Marie Almond, Hatchlings Incubation Centre, Oshawa, Ontario James Dyson: “Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.” Many new entrepreneurs worry that they will be defined and haunted by their mistakes and failures. I believe the opposite, that it is how you recover and learn from your mistake that defines you as a [...]
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Strive to fail, reflect and grow
Bobby Umar, P. Eng, MBA, Raeallan, Toronto, ON, CYBF Mentor I have failed a lot. Some of them are small things I shrug off in a day. Others are big whoppers that hound me for years. Regardless, they are a part of me and I embrace them because they made me who I am today. [...]
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Cash flow headaches and how to avoid them
Christiana Mbazigwe, Duric Business Solutions, Toronto, ON, CYBF Mentor Preparing and managing a cash flow statement can be challenging for business owners or entrepreneurs without strong book keeping or accounting skills. Major ‘headaches’ can come from deciding which method to use to the cash flow in and out of the business. The month-by-month analysis can [...]
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Monday Morning Resource
Globe and Mail: Four techniques to improve your pitch Practice your pitch as loud as you can – the more you practice aloud, the more you can memorize and have the message be more natural. You won’t know all the answers – but be prepared to be honest and to get the answer at a [...]
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