The #Takeoff series is about crowdsourcing issues important to Canadian small businesses. They tell us about their defining moments and we write about their stories, the issues, and strategies for ...

To combat some of the confusion, one Canadian startup is stepping in to help. Boss Insights, a Toronto-based SaaS company, has repurposed its existing insights software to launch a new platform that ...

This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Shanaz Hemmati, COO and co-founder of ZenBusiness, a $1.5 billion company that provides an all-in-one platform helping small businesses become ...

Shanaz Hemmati, a veteran of two multibillion-dollar startups, says any prospective entrepreneur needs to remember one key lesson before launching a new business. No matter how confident you are in ...

In early 2022, Kris Fekete, an entrepreneur from Newmarket, found himself with a problem he’d never anticipated: he had too many Magic cards and didn’t know what to do with them. Fekete is the ...

Launching a business can be nerve-wracking – especially when you consider that many startups don't make it past their first year. Roger Killen, owner of Startups That Work, a company that helps new ...

In Silicon Valley, it seems that everyone’s aspiration is to “Be A Founder.” I chatted with Jon Westenberg, who thinks that most people should focus on building a small business instead of chasing the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to propose on Wednesday a tenfold increase in federal tax incentives for small business startup expenses, from $5,000 to $50,000, hoping to help ...