The essence of innovation is the process of exploring new ways of doing things, new thoughts, and experimenting. By this very act it can be said that one needs to let go of the known, safe and secure in order to risk failure of a new approach. It is a matter of risking the proven for the…
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Is Your Property Deed in the United States Worthless?
In the United States today, people think they own the land their house is built on, but unless they have the “Land Patent” on the land they in fact don’t own it. A “Land Patent” is the only form of perfect title available in the United States. A “Warranty Deed” is simply a “Colour of…
Mcafee Facing Class Action Suit Over Tricking Customers Into Monthly Payments
What happens if the company you hire to protect you against fraud and information theft is the one that helps deceive you? McAfee is one of the two computer security companies that dominate the marketplace. The other computer security company is Norton. The vast majority of business and personal computers have either McAfee or Norton software installed, which…
How to Change Your Life by Holding Yourself Accountable
The greatest reason why people fail at their goals or are not living the life they desire is because they make the wrong commitments and then break those commitments. Every time you break a commitment that you care about keeping, hold yourself accountable to a really painful consequence. The consequence should be something that makes…
Inventors, inventions and Innovation
Throughout history the success of nations has been based on their people’s ability and aptitude for innovation. If it were not for the English long-bow the English would not have been as effective against the French during the Hundred Years’ War, especially in the battles of Crecy (1346), Poitiers (1356), and the famous Battle of Agincourt (1415). In modern…
Financial Times Ranks Schulich’s EMBA #1 in Canada and #11 in the World
Today the Dean of my alma mater, the Schulich School of Business at York University sent out the following email update to the school’s alumni. As you can see, though one of the world’s younger universities the business school has achieved international status and continues to re-inforce its reputation: Just one week after Schulich’s outstanding…
The Key Element in Marketing to Business Owners
Great amounts of time and money are spent on creating advertising campaigns to market to business owners. Cost of preparing the message to present to a business owner can easily reach as high as $10 per potential customer. The cost of acquiring a new customer is as high as tens of thousands of dollars for…
Will A Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Protect My Idea?
Faced with a decision, issue or situation in which you’d like additional perspective? ‘Ask Baldo’ is a column in which selected letters to Baldo are answered and published in MetroActive Ezine, the MetroActive Website (http://www.metroactive.org) and in this blog. Submit your letter to baldo@metroactive.org for consideration. Dear Baldo, I joined MetroActive to help me start…
How to Value a Business the Realistic Way
When it comes to buying, selling or investing in a business the important question becomes ’How much is the business worth?’ As an investment banker and investor I have looked at over a thousand businesses over the last 20 years. Those businesses were sometimes represented by a realtor, sometimes represented by a lawyer, sometimes represented by an accountant,…
Are You Afraid to Commit? … Numbers Show Many are Being Held Back from Success Because of Their Fear
In today’s world it seems all too easy to live a life of non-commitment. As evidence, recent statistics show that 51% of Canadian adults are ‘single’. However, commitment isn’t restricted to personal relationships. Commitment is defined as ‘An agreement or pledge to do something in the future’. So, based on the above statistic, is commitment…
