The arts are useless and science is uncreative
Would you want your heart surgeon to be a 'creative entrepreneur'?
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Today entrepreneurial grads like him find plenty of help
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Ryerson supports startups with Digital Media Zone
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Most aren't confident about finding jobs after graduation
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Five easy secrets
In his autobiography, Relentless (HarperCollins), written with Robert Brehl, Ted Rogers offered his five rules for entrepreneurial success: Do I have any special insight into entrepreneurialism? Can...
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Ted Rogers: A visionary leader
No one equalled his daring. Ted Rogers spent most of 50 years in business guided by his viscera and the message on his business card that carried the self-designated title, “Senior Salesperson.” His...
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Canada’s greediest man?
Rolf Vennenbernd/ZUMA/KEYSTONE PRESS For much of the past decade, the annual meetings of auto parts giant Magna International followed a rhythm as familiar as it was frustrating: a handful of...
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Stay-At-Home executives
Waterworks Technologies Opening doors: Many countries are badly in need of water treatment plants like this one in Iraq Trent Sukovieff is savouring the comforts of his hometown of Calgary after...
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A game of High scores and high stakes
Photograph by Cole Garside Virgin Gaming’s Toronto headquarters is filled with summer students, clad in shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops. They have been hired to test video games for the fledgling...
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1945-2010 | Bruce Malcolm Randall
Illustration by Team Macho Bruce Malcolm Randall was born a blue baby, the youngest of five children, in Toronto on Sept. 22, 1945. Because of his condition, he spent his first 3½ years in hospital...
View ArticleElon Musk, the geek tycoon
Elon Musk is used to making headlines. In fact, he seems to relish them. In late May, the 39-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur stood alongside Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Toyota Motors CEO Akio...
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Newsmakers
Miss Australia’s technicolour tent The “national costume” is one of the quainter events at next month’s Miss Universe contest. Trouble is, Australians don’t really have one, so Jesinta Campbell, 18,...
View ArticleA worldly workforce
Paul Beamish hired Gigi Wong because of her answer to a simple question: how would she react if a Chinese businessman belched after his meal? It was a difference in cultural etiquette he’d observed...
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China’s wealthy women
Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images Zhang Yin is known in China as the Queen of Trash. The owner of Nine Dragons Paper, a recycling business, her fortune is estimated to be worth US$5.3 billion, up almost $1...
View ArticleKitchen crusade
Toronto has more great restaurants than great chefs, but of the many places where the empire city’s first-rank power brokers hang out, none is more socially significant and brazenly chic than Canoe,...
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Angel investing was always male-dominated. That’s finally changing
Photograph by Blair Gable Back in 2001, at an angel-investing conference in Toronto—a gathering of wealthy individuals who provide early-stage funding to start-up businesses, hence the divine...
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Michele Romanow wants to be a helpful Dragon
Michele Romanow is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Buytopia.ca, one of the country’s biggest e-commerce websites. The Dragons’ Den newbie is currently the head of marketing at Groupon, which...
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