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TELUS donation will launch seven new businesses TELUS and the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) announced today a milestone campaign that will help young entrepreneurs launch businesses across Canada. TELUS is donating up to $150,000 to CYBF to help seven young entrepreneurs start and succeed in their business venture. For every person that attends a [...]

Terry Thompson, Surrey, BC, CYBF Mentor, tesh@shaw.ca Managing Corporate Culture article series Without a doubt, the most poorly performed function by managers as a whole (including CEOs) is the recruiting and screening of candidates for employment within their companies, particularly for management positions. The vast majority of managers view this function as a major inconvenience [...]

Working with partners to build a business Anne Forkutza worked with Tammy Olsson and Blair Kennedy to launch Domo Enterprise, an innovative, Vancouver-based tea company which received support in 2011 through CYBF’s Spin Master Innovation Fund. Anne believes that working with partners to build Domo presents some unique challenges and opportunities. She has this advice [...]

Milan Vrekic, TitanFile Inc., @truejebus, Halifax, NS, CYBF entrepreneur If the form of a company (corporation, sole proprietorship, partnership…) is the body of a company and the managing board is its brain, than corporate culture can be considered its soul. Corporate culture includes values, beliefs, taboos, symbols, rituals and myths and each of these evolve [...]

Karen Milde, Reframe Marketing, Vancouver, BC, CYBF Mentor, www.reframemarketing.com There are many ways to find out how to improve your company image, be it with customer surveys, internet research, etc. But only a few management teams may have considered the possibility of using an advisory board. Gathering a group of executives to give the leadership [...]