by bsmith | Jul 29, 2015 | Casb Management Group Inc.
I was reminiscing about my first home purchase, a two bedroom, 1.5 story home in Toronto in 1983. I was a 21-year-old full-time university student at the time, but the prospect of paying rent for another year did not make much sense to someone enrolled in a business...
by bsmith | May 14, 2015 | Casb Management Group Inc.
This article written by Bruce Smith was originally published in The Londoner’s May 14, 2015 issue. Starting your own business is the dream of many Londoners or, for that matter, many Canadians and others around the world. You have an “idea” for a business, a...
by bsmith | Mar 30, 2015 | Casb Management Group Inc.
This article was originally published in the March 26th, 2015 edition of The Londoner, which is available online here. Bruce Smith, Special to The Londoner It seems that not a day goes by without another media report on the amount of personal debt carried by...
by bsmith | Feb 12, 2015 | Casb Management Group Inc.
Many start up companies need to raise capital to grow or expand. One method may be to secure “Angel Money”, amounts typically in the $25,000-$100,000 range, from an angel investor. Entrepreneurs can find this challenging, largely because they make one or more of the...
by bsmith | Feb 11, 2015 | Casb Management Group Inc.
In preparation for a lecture on crowdfunding to a group of accountants, I discovered from my research of that the concept of having many people invest a small amount of money into a company, is more myth than fact. Sophisticated investors are unlikely to forward $1000...
by bsmith | Feb 4, 2015 | Casb Management Group Inc.
I was reading an article by Carol Roth on this subject and was immediately intrigued by her assertion that one of the most counter-intuitive traits that can hurt entrepreneurs is smarts. In summary: While you may think that being smart, motivated and talented would...
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