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  • 5 Key Metrics for Measuring Your Project’s Progress

    5 Key Metrics for Measuring Your Project’s Progress

    Increase Your Productivity Project management metrics enable project managers to assess status of ongoing project and deviation of schedule and cost. It also enables to foresee potential risks and potential problem and to rapidly pivot when needed. To view …/ 5 Key Metrics  

  • 3 Small Business Ideas in Canada in 2018

    3 Small Business Ideas in Canada in 2018

    Canada’s economy was primarily resourced based for many decades, but times have changed because of globalization and technology acceleration Canada’s modern economy is now service industry based.

  • What role does a contrarian spirit play in innovativeness?

    What role does a contrarian spirit play in innovativeness?

    In order to set a good foundation for this discourse, it is essential to define what the word – Contrarian means.

  • Exploring Innovation

    Exploring Innovation

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  • The Entrepreneur – Measuring Your Startup’s Progress

    The Entrepreneur – Measuring Your Startup’s Progress

    How to Measure your Business Progress?  The first of The Entrepreneur Series on the Art of the Start In this segment we are discussing of ways and means, in addition to traditional financial statements , to measure the progress of a startup. This production, The Entrepreneur, is the first of a series of six…

  • The Money Side of a Custom Sewing Business

    The Money Side of a Custom Sewing Business

    Generating sufficient revenues to earn a living wage from a home custom sewing business With the help of Ingrid Tiffe, a member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinty, ON,  and an Eco-Fashion Designer, running her own company IsaTe’s Designs out of Seattle, WA;   and with Metis-Entrepreneur Jacques Pilon , we are…

  • The Entrepreneur – What it means

    The Entrepreneur – What it means

    Sponsored by: Launch Lab  Entrepreneurship its Risks and Rewards In this first segment of “The Entrepreneur”, a new series focused on the early stages of entrepreneurship with  Metis born business man Jacques Pilon. Jacques, an entrepreneur for 25 years is President of Corporations and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Launch Lab Innovation Centre, located in Kingston, Ontario,…

  • Blueprints for Success – Finding funding

    Blueprints for Success – Finding funding

    Launching a Cosmetics Business (Funding) Getting funding is not an easy task, however if a person is truly determined and committed and he/she has a well thought out plan built on tested assumptions, a product with some sales, process to delivery , and measurable milestones, chances are with perseverance she will succeed in getting…

  • Blueprints for Success –  Entrepreneurial Intern: Jenn Harper

    Blueprints for Success – Entrepreneurial Intern: Jenn Harper

    Launching a Cosmetics Business  Sponsored by: Launch Lab Meet Jenn Harper, ICN’s Entrepreneurial Intern.  She is the founder of the newly launched beauty product e-commerce company, Cheekbone Beauty.  Jenn is also a mother of two, employed full time as a sales person for a major sea food wholesaler. In this interview she talks about…

  • Blueprints for Success – Launching a Custom Sewing Business

    Blueprints for Success – Launching a Custom Sewing Business

    Esther talks with fashionista Angela Demontigny and entrepreneur Jacques Pilon about launching her custom sewing business with an Aboriginal design flair. They talk about the ‘what’ and  the ‘how’ of the business and about topics such as: designing, undeserved markets, creating a distinct advantage over the competition and much more.