Check out Hayley Peek’s experiences and see why ‘YES’ might be a great answer for you too! Work-life balance is an elusive concept: finding the time to live your life to the fullest, while doing the best possible job you can at work, isn’t easy. There are ways you can simplify your life however, to…
Building a business, or a township, requires working with the right people! Our partnership with Coinberry is just one of several examples that we want to share with you. In this ongoing series about partnerships, we want to demonstrate our focus on building a scalable township. The scalability that is so important to business…
By Ash Maurya When I started these posts, I often spent upwards of 8 hours on a single blog post. A number of my entrepreneur friends and advisers asked how I could afford taking this much time away from my core business. I said it clarified my own thinking, plus readership (albeit small) was growing…
By Ash Maurya In its early days, Southwest Airlines had to sell one of their planes or face bankruptcy. When most people get hit with a constraint of limited resources like this one, they either fall victim to the constraint and revise their ambition downwards, or they confront the constraint head-on and look for ways…
By Ash Maurya I recently got asked about the most common pitfall that trips up entrepreneurs. Top on my list is: Falling in love with your solution. I’ve previously labelled this pre-disposition for the solution as the “Innovator’s Bias”. In science, one of the ways we attempt to overcome this kind of bias is through…
As an entrepreneur, when you hear someone talk about work-life balance, you likely find yourself chuckling. It typically doesn’t exist for business owners and is less likely to exist if you’re creating a start-up. In fact, the concept of work-life balance has become outdated. Work-life balance implies harmony between the two, but as an entrepreneur,…
One of the major goals of the town of Innisfil is to create a community where businesses thrive. We are accomplishing that by walking the walk! Our partnerships with organizations that provide creative solutions to problems facing most every community is how we innovate, demonstrating to businesses that we’re ready and able to help them…
When you’re building a business from the ground up, you are often the first and probably the best salesperson your company has. However, if you want to grow into something larger than a ‘cottage industry’, you’re going to need a solid sales team and a process to grow it that can be managed so that…
Finding the right partners is so important, whether you’re building a business or a township! The Town of Innisfil is just like an entrepreneur: we’re focused on building a scalable township. To do that, we’re always looking to create partnerships with innovative companies that can help us to expand the solutions we offer so that…
Nothing in this world is free but for many new businesses, figuring out a way to brand and market on a shoestring budget is the bottom line. It’s important to have some sort of a budget, but since it’s not likely going to be the kind of coin a large organization like Starbucks could spend,…