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After my recent post about some of the spreadsheets I’ve given away online, I got asked if I ever made a general new business planning Excel spreadsheet. I said “not exactly” and gave some excuses why ultimately you need to build a custom spreadsheet as every business is just a little bit different and has [...]

The following short piece was written by yours truly, Andrew Muschamp McKay. I may have even gotten paid to write it. Or I may have written it in my ‘spare time’ and then gave it to the non-profit I was working for at the time. Sometimes I’m amazed I can still accomplish things when I [...]

Always remember how important it is to choose a proper title to blog your best. Do as I say not as I do. Last night at the Brad Feld VS Bootup Labs event, Basil Peters had his book mentioned twice, so after seeing he commented on Brad’s blog I went to Mr. Peters website and [...]

…was my specialization during my MBA and I sub-specialized in International Business, so the recent feature in the Economist on Entrepreneurism took me back. It was also relevant to my day job as it talked about clusters and what is needed to stimulate entrepreneurial activity in Vancouver’s inner-city. The two most popular posts I’ve written [...]

So I went to two events today at the Vancity Theatre. The first was the announcement and release of the Ready to Rocket list. It lists 25 private tech companies that they believe have a high probability for rabid growth. Some firms graduated from the list such as Vision Critical and other firms may have [...]