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I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.

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You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

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Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.

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I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their nam…

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It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

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What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.

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Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

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I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card an…

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Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

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HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.

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