When I reconnect with Sean Clark in October 2017, it’s almost exactly a year since the last time I saw him—climbing a stage at the Vancouver Convention Centre to receive an Entrepreneur Of The Year award. His baby—Shoeme.ca, launched in 2012—had...
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BCBusiness + Pacific M&A and Business Brokers Ltd. For Pino Bacinello, president of Pacific M&A and Business Brokers Ltd., knowing where to start when deciding to sell one’s business requires asking self-directed questions — and ideally, asking those questions years before the...
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More than 250 guests attended the ARThritis Soirée 2018 on May 17 at the Roof at Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Presented by City Square Shopping Centre, the event raised over $330,000 to support life-saving arthritis research. Featured guests included JUNO award-winning...
BCBusiness + Manning Elliott LLP While the tax reforms imposed by the provincial and federal governments in their latest budgets stunned many in the business community, they didn’t surprise Craig Prenter, CPA, CA, partner at Manning Elliott LLP. “Unfortunately they aren’t without...
Address: 6485 Cedarhurst Street, Kerrisdale Price: $10,998,000 Listing: R2234536 The skinny: Five-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 6,481-square-foot house on a 15,847-square-foot lot in Kerrisdale. The bling: OK, it’s time to get with the times and leave the frou-frou behind. Yes, we know you love your frills and...
Nervous high-schoolers and their even antsier parents made the trip to the Vancouver Convention Centre earlier this week for the fifth annual Young Entrepreneur Leadership Launchpad (YELL) Venture Challenge. The event, which sees teams of B.C. high-school students compete in the hope of getting their business ideas...
It’s no big secret that younger generations are choosing to chase the dream of opening their own enterprise over the cozy corner office that their predecessors once coveted. Whether it be a side hustle, a startup or a sole proprietorship...
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A survey done by Miles Employment Group has revealed the top six factors affecting Vancouverites decision to accept a job. The results, collected from visitors to the company's website, show that compensation is no longer the most important factor in a job search, but learning and growth opportunities is. The results may come as...
We live in a time of unprecedented change, with digital disruption rapidly transforming 21st-century societies. Increasingly, the Canadian marketplace is dominated by novel, knowledge-based jobs requiring high levels of literacy in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Here in B.C.