Category: Entrepreneur’s POV

Ela Accessories' Founders: Ela & Martin Aldorsson.
Photo: Marayna Dickinson/Alace Photos

DisC x YouInc Presents: 10 Questions with Ela & Martin Aldorsson of Ela Accessories

About Different Is Cool x YouInc: DisC and YouInc have collaborated on a series of profile pieces featuring Canadian entrepreneurs in non-traditional, creative careers [ie. fashion, visual & performing arts, […]

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Elle at work in the Zvelle Studio, Toronto.
Photo Credit: Marayna Dickinson.

DisC x YouInc Presents: 10 Questions with Fashion Entrepreneur Elle AyoubZadeh of Zvelle Shoes

About Different Is Cool x YouInc: DisC and YouInc have collaborated on a series of profile pieces featuring Canadian entrepreneurs in non-traditional, creative careers [ie. fashion, visual & performing arts, […]

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In Which Margaret Atwood is Poised to Become a Tech Mogul & Muses on Writing, Riding & Higgsteria

In Which Margaret Atwood is Poised to Become a Tech Mogul & Muses on Writing, Riding & Higgsteria

Literary Legend Margaret Atwood regales the crowd at DisC’s Gateway to Bohemia 2011 event. As the saying goes “The best way to predict the future, is to invent it.” The […]

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People Who Inspire: Sir Richard Branson, “a bit of a maverick”

People Who Inspire: Sir Richard Branson, “a bit of a maverick”

For a person who, by his own admission, still could not read at the age of eight, had a “nightmarish” time at school, and left it at the age of […]

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Here Is What Is

Here Is What Is

Entrepreneurs are different–people who see possibilities where others see limitations. But best ideas seldom win, and paraphrasing my friend Daniel Lanois in his film “Here is What is”, people would […]

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NFQ Entrepreneur’s Playbook

NFQ Entrepreneur’s Playbook

  “We hold these truths to be self-evident” well, maybe in the case of the US Declaration of Independence, but not necessarily in the case of what it takes to […]

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Enterprise innovation cycle (the next wave on a Rising Tide)

Enterprise innovation cycle (the next wave on a Rising Tide)

Most Enterprises have taken their medicine over the past 4 years, since the big crash of 2008, and don’t have much more room to optimize performance through cuts and austerity […]

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