Quebec International (QI) is proud to present its activity report, which reflects the outstanding results of the initiatives and accomplishments achieved for the fiscal year 2021. The Report shows that QI's increased efforts have resulted in an economic impact of $973.9M, an increase of more than 32% over 2020.
QUÉBEC INTERNATIONAL IN NUMBERS This considerable increase makes even more sense in terms of the services offered. Thus, each public dollar invested will have generated $83 in economic spin-offs in the Quebec City region.
As a founder, it’s never been more important to know the nuances of the angel versus VC debate. 
Marjorie, an HR professional, receives a seemingly impossible mandate. She is asked to recruit six Spanish-speaking, front-end programmers with at least 10 years of experience, able to relocate to Miami, in southeastern United States, all within a month. Not so many years ago, this would have been impossible. Today, she feeds the requirements into her AI-enabled recruiting system, which immediately prospects for candidates across the key job aggregators, like Indeed, and all major social and professional media sites, including Facebook and LinkedIn. It also combs through the firm’s database of past job applicants.
One of the first harsh realities that every entrepreneur has to learn is that most of the things that are critical to startup success are outside of their direct control. Just because you dream it and build it, doesn’t mean they will come – that encompasses not only customers, but also investors, partners, team members, and even your own family. They won’t come if they don’t trust you.
New small business owners face a myriad of challenges getting their business ideas up and running. Marketing, securing products, staffing, and establishing processes are just few challenges new owners might have to navigate. However, there is a whole other set of challenges that are often unexpected, the unwelcomed “partnership” with government, federal, state, and local. Likely aware of the tax law, what probably surprised them was the plethora of regulations, compliance costs, licensing, etc. associated with their new firm and location. Just cutting a curb to provide customer access to your parking lot can be a huge headache. Unfamiliar names like OSHA, EPA, FDA and others suddenly demand your attention and compliance with their rules.
If you have ambitions to be an entrepreneur, but don’t have an idea for a startup or lack the risk-taking mindset that might be necessary, where do you go? You go to large corporations who actual need people like you to be creative and innovative, perhaps even disruptive but not to the point of leaving the company. It’s a very fine line for management to recruit people who have the core tenants of being an entrepreneur and to effectively manage them working inside a large company. Let’s look at how these companies might define and support corporate entrepreneurship.
When it comes to being a successful entrepreneur, founder or business owner, emotional intelligence isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. However, if you want to thrive in these roles, emotional intelligence could be one of the most important factors to focus on.
The good news is that a recent Kauffman Early-Stage Entrepreneurship (KESE) Index shows the highest level of new business activity recorded in the last two decades, and the cost of entry at an all-time low. The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital.
As a stroll down Tel Aviv’s Ben-Yehuda Street at the height of summer quite clearly demonstrates, our cities are stiflingly hot: lack of shade, ACs spewing hot air on the sidewalks and no breeze make walking outside come August somewhat of a nightmare.
What image comes to your mind when you think of the word “entrepreneur”? Many of us will visualize youthful, creative fanatics on a solo mission to change the world. It took me by surprise when, in one of my strategy workshops, I met a woman named Jean Feiwel. Jean was certainly an entrepreneur—she was responsible for launching a platform for aspiring self-published authors to refine and promote their manuscripts. She had many of the traits we associate with entrepreneurs—intrinsic motivation, innovative aspirations, and the ability to generate support for her ideas. The only difference: Jean works for a company.
Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business.
Vaccine inequity remains an issue both within India, where less than 2 per cent of the population has received a Covid booster, and the globe with 56 countries unable to inoculate even 10 percent of their people, says Johns Hopkins scientist Amita Gupta.
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – has sprung back to life after a three-year shutdown.
New York, April 20 – Wearable sensors, such as smartwatches and fitness bands, can reveal a person’s physiological response to the Covid-19 vaccination, according to a study.
Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep.
Agility Robotics, a creator and manufacturer of robots designed to work alongside people in logistics and warehouse environments, today announced that it has raised $150 million led by DCVC and Playground Global. The Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund also joined as an investor to help spur innovation in the logistics industry. Agility's robots provide unique value to businesses by augmenting the human workforce's productivity, efficiency, and wellness. This capital raise will accelerate Agility's R&D and scale its robot production.
We’ve been listening carefully to our employees over the last two years during this challenging pandemic, and they have not been shy to say they have had to endure a lot of pain. I can see it myself. I can see their fatigue. How could there not be fatigue? It’s extremely hard to manage the kids, including helping them with school, while also taking care of elderly parents, coping with a global pandemic and still trying to work productively.
There has always been a coveted, special role within startups and enterprises throughout Silicon Valley. Primarily driven by the status or caliber of the applicant (think ex-consultant from McKinsey, Bain or BCG, and MBA graduate of HBS, Stanford GSB or Wharton), these roles became highly respected in a short period of time. First come associate product manager/product managers roles, then jobs in business operations, and recently followed by the Chief of Staff position. But a new opportunity emerges in the wake of the rest: the founder-in-residence (FiR). A cousin of the canonically-known entrepreneur-in-residence (EiR) job, the major difference between the two is that FiR roles more frequently appear within early-stage startups, as opposed to EiRs in venture capital firms, universities, and startup accelerators.
Krista Morgan knows how difficult it is to build a startup. She also knows just how quickly it can all fall apart.