Why you should be actively promoting your business online Many business owners out there may wonder why they should spend money post their company on the web. Why they can’t stick with the tried and true methods that has kept them in business for years, possibly decades. The tools people use to gather information now, [...]

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Private Equity, Venture Capital, Angel Investing, there are many names for the type of investments you see on ABC’s show Shark Tank, as well as CBC’s show Dragon’s Den. To the general public, it is an entertaining look at people pitching their ideas to well capitalized investors who are willing to bet on the next [...]

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The name hedge fund, as far as I am concerned, is a bit of a misnomer. In the financial world, the word ‘hedge’ is a term to describe an investment strategy where there is a removal of exposure to certain factor(s) in the market (e.g. by taking an investment in 1 security, and counteracting it [...]

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What is a Subprime Mortgage … or Why did the American Real Estate Market Crash?

June 30, 2011
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The causes of this ‘great recession’ we are in is quite a confusing topic for the vast majority of people, which is unfortunate, because it affects so many people, so directly. One of the key factors leading to the stock market crash in late 2008 was the crash of the American Real Estate Market that [...]

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How to drive more sales to your small business … tips on effective marketing techniques

March 8, 2011

Anyone who has started a small business is aware of how difficult it is to prioritize the segments of your business. No matter the industry, your business is probably selling something: either a product or a service. So naturally, the best way to get the business going in a hurry is to focus on sales. [...]

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The Open Source Social Network

November 24, 2010
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Diaspora: the open source answer to Facebook Imagine being able to capture all the fun and excitement of Facebook, but with superior control on exactly who you want to see your thoughts, conversations, photos, and anything else that may be shared. On top of this, imagine if the creator of this network wasn’t a business [...]

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How to Upload HD Videos to YouTube

May 11, 2010
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This Tutorial is meant for a Flip Mino HD Camcorder, but this tutorial would work for any other HD camcorder as well. You may have just bought a Flip HD camcorder, tried to put the videos on YouTube, and found that the video quality wasn’t nearly to the level that you expected. In this tutorial, [...]

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BitTorrent Explanation

May 9, 2010

What Is BitTorrent? BitTorrent is a method of transferring large amounts of data (huge files) from one computer to another (peer to peer) over the internet. Types of files could be music, movies, software. It was developed in 2001 and has since become an extremely popular method for transferring files over the web, some estimates [...]

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Facebook Privacy

May 4, 2010

Why it’s a bad idea to post your party pics on facebook, or anything else incriminating on the web for that matter Although it may not seem like a big deal when those party pics of you first got posted on the web back in university, it could definitely turn into something more consequential in [...]

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