Christine Wong
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Posts by Christine Wong
Canada lags behind U.S. in supporting small businesses
February 10, 2012 - 6:00 am
Tags: crowdfunding, Entrepreneurship, financing, funding, government, ITB, Small Business, SMB, tech startups, venture capital
Posted in Leadership, Managing Business, Opinion | 3 comments
I’m not saying the Startup America bills are a cure-all. But they’re certainly something Canada can look to for inspiration.
Should New York look to Montreal for tech hub model?
February 2, 2012 - 10:22 pm
Posted in Leadership, Opinion | 1 comment
New York has so far raised more than $2.2 billion in venture capital and is earmarking $100 million in prime real estate to build its version of Silicon Valley but Montreal and Waterloo’s little engine that could approach looks like a better use of public resources.
Canadian startups cashing chips way too early?
January 25, 2012 - 5:18 pm
Tags: capital, exit strategy, financing, funding, ITB, megers and acquisition, SMB, startups
Posted in Leadership, Opinion | 1 comment
Instead of going big – and taking on all the risk that comes with it – it might just seem safer to go home (early) for a lot of Canadian entrepreneurs today, especially compared to their U.S. counterparts.
Why aren’t there more women in the tech startup scene?
January 12, 2012 - 9:43 pm
Tags: career issues, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, management issues, managing business, Small Business, tech startups, Women in IT, women in workforce, workforce
Posted in Leadership, Managing Business, Opinion | No comments
“There’s something about females that they’re generally less likely to toot their own horn, so they tend not to want to go to some of the startup events where that’s a big part of (what goes on)” — Heather Payne.
2011 showed us what Canadian startups are really made of
December 23, 2011 - 6:00 am
Tags: angel investors, financing, funding, ITB, ITWC, SMB, tech startups, VC funds, venture capital
Posted in Leadership, Opinion | 1 comment
the numbers show that 2011 was a rocky year for Canadian startups trying to raise cash but there was a lot more to celebrate than bemoan for those who looked beyond just the numbers.
The weird and wonderful world of gathering customer insights
November 27, 2011 - 7:07 pm
Tags: customer engagement, Customer relations management, marketing, product development
Posted in Managing Business, Opinion | No comments
Trawling for customer inputs brings Pamela Bailey of Intuit to some very interesting SMB head office – including a shipping container propped up on stilts, out in the ocean.
SMBs actually hate social media
November 11, 2011 - 6:00 am
Tags: Facebook, ITB, ITWC, LinkedIn, microblogging, SMB, social media, social networking, Twitter
Posted in Managing Business, Opinion | 1 comment
Twitter was the biggest target of vitriol among SMBs, with 46 per cent in the iContact survey expressing actual hate (again, their words, not mine) for the microblogging site.
Canadian entrepreneurs don’t fear risk – investors do
October 27, 2011 - 8:49 pm
Tags: banks, Canada, ceo, Deloitte, entrepreneur, Fast 500, finance, innovation, risk, venture capital
Posted in Leadership, Opinion | No comments
Just over half of the CEOs — only 56 per cent — said yes. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of confidence in … well, our own Canuck confidence level overall.
