by Karla Briones | Dec 30, 2019 | Blog, Canada, Entrepreneur, Research
As this decade comes to an end, I wanted to talk about how far entrepreneurship has come in Canada – particularly Immigrant Entrepreneurs as the ones to watch in this new decade. The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) conducts surveys during Small...
by Karla Briones | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog, Canada, Entrepreneur, Research
I still remember my husband’s reaction when, out of the blue, I called his office and blurted out: Do you want to open up a pet store?! We had never talked about owning a business in our five years of marriage, but after a very enlightening call with my parents, I...
by Karla Briones | Jan 3, 2019 | Blog, Entrepreneur, Finance, Planning, Research, Resources
The year comes to an end and that pesky little business plan is still a blank screen on your computer with a lonely blinking cursor? You’re not alone. A business plan is the single, most important document needed to access financing (the second one is your pitch...
by vcc | Dec 15, 2017 | Blog, Research
A new research report, Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Barriers and Facilitators to Growth, from Ryerson University’s Diversity Institute shows that a substantial proportion of new Canadians are attracted to entrepreneurship as a desirable career choice (73 per cent),...
Karla Briones is an Ottawa-area serial Immpreneur with a passion to encourage and support others to achieve business success.