Finding Employees with the Owner of Infinity Asset Solutions
My interview today is with Josh Sugar, whom I met through my work on the board of EO (Entrepreneurs’ Organization). A funny “small world” story is that he also happens to play basketball with my business partner, Jamie Schneiderman, on Tuesday nights. Despite this, I swear, Toronto is a big city!Josh’s 12-person company, Infinity Asset Solutions Inc., focuses […]
The Brave Strategy That Finally Helped These Two Startup Founders Dominate Their Market
In 2009, Simon Tomlinson and Stewart Wigg, the cofounders of Bluesun, a technology consulting business, came to a disturbing conclusion–they had created the wrong company. They had gone into business eight years prior with the dream to build a thriving market leader, but had ended up with a small lifestyle business. It was a conclusion […]
Shotgun Hiring! Why It Will Fail You Every Time
Hiring on Impulse: A Very Common Case for Hiring Managers and Business Owners You need help at your workplace, and you need it now. But you don’t have the time to sort through an endless stack of resumes, so you base your hiring strictly on impulse. Not necessarily focusing on the candidates’ particular behavioral traits and […]
Why This Startup Bought a Struggling Product From Its Giant Competitor
In the winter of 2014, serial entrepreneur Albert Lai sat alone waiting for a friend at a restaurant down the street from his latest venture, Big Viking Games. On the table in front of him lay his iPhone. He had just drafted an email and was debating whether to press send–it was a message that […]
How This Kindergarten Teacher Raised $34 Million from the Firm That Funded Apple and Google
“Your idea will never work.” These words rang through Tami Zuckerman’s head as she sat in her family’s kitchen alone one day in the winter of 2012. At the time, she was a kindergarten teacher on pregnancy leave, who believed she had an idea for a new solution to a huge problem. Unfortunately, the person […]
