by Rob Farrow | Nov 27, 2017 | Money, Startups
The Economist put out a great film on Startup Culture Welcome To The Jungle
by Rob Farrow | Nov 19, 2017 | Accounting, Startups
A few months ago I received an email inviting me to try out Receipt-Bank… The company’s marketing was geared towards bookkeepers and small accounting firms. Would we appreciate eliminating data entry? – Of course! The problem is that simply...
by Rob Farrow | Nov 1, 2017 | Startups, Taxation
What Governments Can Learn from Startups Every few years the electorate votes the ruling party out of office — often in favour of a new, reinvigorated opposition party. Effectively we vote in a ‘startup government’ led by a few individuals with political experience,...
by Rob Farrow | Oct 15, 2017 | Accounting, Startups
In 1494 an Italian mathematician by the name of Luca Pacioli published “Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalità” (Venice 1494), a textbook for use in the schools of Northern Italy. It was a synthesis of the mathematical knowledge of his time...
by Rob Farrow | Oct 9, 2017 | Professionals, Startups
Terms like “Pivot”, “Lean Startup”, “Minimum Viable Product”, “Product / Market Fit”, “Gazelles“, “Unicorns” and “Scale Up” are ubiquitous. However that doesn’t mean that these...
by Rob Farrow | Aug 15, 2017 | Money, Startups
According to Startup Genome 2 of the top 20 startup ecosystems in the world are located in Canada. Vancouver (No. 15) The Vancouver startup ecosystem is currently comprised of 800-1,100 startups and shining success stories. In the early days Slack’s founder estimated...
