Jacoline Loewen

April 15, 2011

Which Pitch Would You Choose?

Jacoline Loewen was on BNN, The Pitch, April, 13th and was pleasantly surprised by exciting pitches.
There was a gold nugget of an idea pitched by Ken Seville, Guaranteed Interview, but the business model is not well developed yet.
Guaranteed Interview is for a recruitment website like Monstor.com, but focused on ex-military. What a great marketing vertical.
The company name is also not a catchy brand, and they need some private sector talent to drive growth. Great concept though and every trucking, security, logistics, aerospace company will be bookmarking the site. Ken did a great job presenting. Check it out HERE
Get hold of Ken: : ken.seville@gmail.com

Exempt Market Dealer Association Town Hall: EMDA Events

Kersten Kloss and Ron Lessoway would like to thank everyone for coming out to Peer Diligence's EMDA Town Hall last night. It was a huge success.We want extend out thanks to Angie Redecopp from Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and Ron Lessoway from MRL Group of Companies.
For those of you who want to see the recorded version, you can see WATCH IT HERE
The event is at the bottom of the page listed under "Peer Diligence TweetCast". Click on the "Register For Event". When you register, you will be sent and email with the link to view to information.
We had a lot of non-registered participants last night, so if you know of anyone who showed up who was not registered, can you please get them to sign up for Peer Diligence at www.meetup.com/peerdiligence.
http://www.refreshedit.com/index.php/live

April 14, 2011

Canada makes the list of countries with the Most Billionaires

19 Canadian Billionaires seems a paltry number next to the USA's 270, until you look at the top 10 countries with Billionaires.
Canada comes in fourth.
Mexico makes the cut too which shows it's great to be around the top economy in the world, the USA.

April 13, 2011

Teaching a 'Lean Startup' Strategy

Lean startup executives do not invest in scaling the company until they have achieved product market fit (PMF); that is, the knowledge that they have developed a solution that matches the problem.

Teaching a 'Lean Startup' Strategy — HBS Working Knowledge

April 12, 2011

Markets suffer setback | Investing | Financial Post

Oil prices are going to knock the economy, economists are now predicting.

Canadian stocks fell sharply for the second consecutive day on another violent pullback in commodities as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. told investors to take profits while warning of a correction in oil prices.
Markets also suffered after Japan’s acknowledged its nuclear situation had worsened and Alcoa Inc. showed disappointing results as the U.S. earnings season kicked off.
“For the last several weeks, world stock markets have taken every disappointment and uncertainty the world could throw at them and continued to drive higher,” said Colin Cieszynski, market analyst at CMC Markets Canada.

Markets suffer setback | Investing | Financial Post

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Invited as expert on BNN The Pitch, CBC, Dragons' Den and published by National Post, Globe & Mail, Leadership, Business Entrepreneurs, The Journal, Women's Post, as well as author of three books.

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"A lot of business people still have trouble with the concept of strategic planning. They wonder who should do it, and what it's for. I just encountered a great explanation of strategy. It comes from a book, The Power of Strategy by Jacoline Loewen.

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post by Rick Spence, Canadian Entrepreneur