Continuing our series on funding, I sat down with Bruce Croxon from Dragon’s Den and Round 13 Capital to talk about his perspective on the state of funding. Bruce was an entrepreneur in his own right: in the late 1980s he and a partner built Lavalife, a company which made millions, and for which Bruce […]
2013-04-02-closeupMakePerfumeNotWarpic.jpg This week, I spoke with an entrepreneur who has achieved the Canadian Dream. In 2010, Barb Stegemann walked onto a soundstage on the 10th floor of the CBC building in Toronto to pitch her business: a perfume company which sourced its ingredients from Afghanistan. It was an idea which confused many of the Dragons, […]