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If you are in the market for new equipment and are not sure whether it makes more sense to buy or lease, you are not alone. “There’s no easy answer,” says Simon Parker, director of the Ivey School of Business’s Driving Growth Through Entrepreneurship & Innovation Cross-Enterprise Leadership Research Centre.
Shirtpal’s success has grown steadily since its inception in December 2009. Its founders, entrepreneurs Winnie Cheung and Noorneet Singh, are recent graduates from the Richard Ivey School of Business. The company is currently expanding across Canada, with local events in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Global operations exist in Sydney, Thailand, Japan and Singapore.
Almost one-quarter of Canadians plan to start their own businesses soon. Anyone who takes up the challenge of business start-up today would do well to examine how entrepreneurship has changed in this century. The biggest change is that today, less is best.
You don’t know what you don’t know. And as an entrepreneur starting a business, what you don’t know can stop you before you get going. That, says David Simpson, a teacher in the entrepreneurship program at the Richard Ivey School of Business, is why mentors are critical to getting a business going and growing.
Be wary of pitfalls associated with learning from other industries. “The risk is in looking only at the surface attributes and not understanding the business economics of a strategy,” said Stewart Thornhill, entrepreneurship professor at the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business.