The CEO of MaRS Discovery District (an incubator in downtown Toronto) is paid an astonishing $500,000 plus pension and benefits. This is unconscionable. It is an obscene amount of money to pay for a position that is a cross between…
Everyone wants to support innovators and entrepreneurs. But in 2014, they don't need "sticks and bricks", or beautiful buildings that just create bureaucracy and overhead. Big, fancy buildings are completely unnecessary and probably counter-productive for supporting entrepreneurship. They are a…
A technology company without sales is just a project. A business is only a business when it has revenues. Customers and revenue are the sine qua non of business - without them, 'you ain't got nothing'. A decent business has…