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Ali is a manic guy. Just listen to him, “sleep is my biggest distraction from work. It’s really hard for me to manage. Like I want to stay up every night and work on it and then I’m tired in the morning and I’m …

It all started one day, hanging out at the mall. These Ryerson University undergrads, all friends, were sitting there and noticed a curious event. A girl was going from store to store handing out résumés, looking for a job, any job. Here was …

While Omar had already gotten his feet wet in the TorCamp community, DemoCamp 13 was his big introduction to the crowd. He was demoing ProductWiki, which for many there was an altogether novel concept. ProductWiki joins the very thin ranks of the commercial, public, open …

Facebook has become a monster. The popular social networking website has millions of users worldwide, including over 500k in Toronto alone, and grows roughly 3% a week. Our own FreshBooks User Group, hosted on Facebook, already has 80+ members – okay, not as impressive, but we’re still pretty excited about it. Several weeks ago, the …

Yesterday, FreshBooks was featured by Andrew Wahl in the latest version of Canada Business Magazine. He highlighted our emphasis on customer service: “Customers come first. It’s a claim that most businesses like to believe they uphold but often struggle to demonstrate… but at FreshBooks… customer service plays a critical role.” You …

I first heard about StandoutJobs.com the way most people had. I watched their hilarious video job posting and wondered how a stealth startup hires a Python wrangler. Little did I realize when I sat down to interview Fred Ngo about his new job, here I …

Introducing Sunir Entrepreneurism is in my blood. My parents both came from Kenya, where they were children of retailers and industrialites. In fact, I come from from a long line of entrepreneurs escaping poverty in India. They worked hard, starting by laying the ties of the Kenyan railway at the turn of the 20th century …

I’m walking to the subway, my cell phone rings, I punch in a few numbers and I’ve just paid off some money I owe. Making collections more mobile is what PayPal has just opened the door to by releasing their new mobile checkout process. Their new mobile checkout process …

I’ve talked about it before, but recognizing when you need guidance is vital – in my opinion this is especially true for entrepreneurs who frequently bear the responsibility of making decisions that affect the rest of the team. Every few months I find myself wrestling with an important business decision – on what will have …