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Marketing Using Social Media
The INS and OUTS of Using Social Media to Generate Revenue Lisa McKenzie, founder of McKenzie Moxie Media and Chief Bliss Instigator.talks with host Business Entrepreneur and Advisor Jacques Pilon and with ICN’s Entrepreneurial Interns Shaylene Johnson, Jennifer Harper and Esther Stewart about the INS and OUTS of using social media to launch product or service and generate both…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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A Force to Reckon With: Women Entrepreneurship and Risk
By: Centre for Women in Politics and Public Leadership, Carleton University Despite the dominant rhetoric that woman are risk-averse, the number of female entrepreneurs has more than doubled in the last two decades. Conclusions: The Way Forward Nevertheless, there are still some challenges (e.g., access to funding) discouraging women from starting and growing their own…
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Apprenticeship in the resource sector
Preparing human resources to benefit from opportunities made available through the development of natural resources Christina Jones Apprenticeship Officer Wii-ni n’guch-tood LDM
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Education for Entre-Intrapreneurs
Teaching entrepreneurship and making it safe to learn from failure helps prepare people to create their own jobs as entrepreneurs or to become “intrapreneurs” for their future employers. Cheryl Jensen, President, Algonquin College
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Getting Started – Lessons Learned as an Entrepreneur
Marie Delorme, CEO, The Imagination Group of Companies talks of the lessons she’s learned over time as a start-up entrepreneur.