By Tony Bailetti
Entrepreneurs need access to the knowledge, approaches, methods, and tools they require to globalize their startups early and rapidly.
For the purpose of this series, globalization refers to the process by which a company meets the needs of a global market, one which integrates many formerly domestic markets including the company’s home market. A global market is the result of nation-states breaking down barriers to international trade, shifts to market economies, mobility of talent and capital, and advances in transportation, information, and communications technology.
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By Francis Moran
Former Canadian Olympic gold medalist and chef de mission Mark Tewksbury gave a keynote address at the National Angel Capital Organization‘s summit in Halifax in late October. In urging that Canadian business adopt the Olympic movement’s Own the Podium approach that sees athlete funding going disproportionately to those who show the best promise of winning a medal, Tewksbury said we have to move away from the old Canadian funding model. That approach, he said, sees government spread its limited funds across too many recipients, ensuring that nobody starves but also that nobody gets the resources they really need to succeed. As Tewksbury put it, funding before Own the Podium was “one for me, one for you,” ensuring “one for me-diocrity.”
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By Tony Bailetti
