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A photo collage. From left: Samuel Chinniah at CWB Wealth; Ashish Utarid at IGM Wealth Management; Eric Gilboord at Warren Business Development Center.

Congrats on your ‘liquidity event.’ What comes next?

Reinvest in another business? Considered tax implications? What about the grandkids? Founders face so many questions

August 6, 2024
Wealth

KingSett Capital private equity real estate investment firm founder and executive chair, Jon Love, who recently moved from CEO to executive chair: “I can't just walk away from our investors, and that includes my own family who are invested in the business. I have to have a leadership team that's ready.”

KingSett founder Jon Love on success in real estate investing

Son of Oxford Properties founder created Toronto-based private real estate investment firm for institutional, family offices and wealthy investors

July 18, 2024
Family Business

Alessia, left, and Mirabela Muresan, who partnered with universities to sponsor student initiatives aimed at nurturing young talent: “We're committed to empowering parents and children to embark on their entrepreneurial journeys with confidence and enthusiasm.”

Vancouver mother-daughter team bootstrapped startup

From a corporate career interrupted by COVID, Mirabela Muresan channelled her family’s entrepreneurial skills and founded AlessiaAdora with daughter Alessia

July 5, 2024
Family Business

A photo collage: Neil Wainwright, left, who sold the business he co-fouded, Nexonia; and Joel Lessem, who sold the business he co-founded, Firmex.

These founders sold to PE. The pros and cons

What to do if a private equity firm comes knocking to buy your business? Experts and founders weigh in

May 28, 2024
Family Business

Robyn Mair, left, and Monika Scott, founders of Mint Cleaning Products, with products in over 200 retail locations across Canada, saw business double last year, and an upcoming pitch to CBC’s Dragons’ Den.

B.C. mompreneurs’ turned health challenge into winning product

Lung scarring pushed Robyn Mair and Monika Scott to create eco-friendly Mint Cleaning Products in Ucluelet, Vancouver Island

May 10, 2024
Family Business

River Ewing, principal at Hadley Family Office, based in the Greater Toronto Area: “The key for us and the sector is to attract more Canadian investors to the capital investment table. Otherwise, Americans will come in and fill up the space at the table.”

Hadley Family Office finds success through search investing

Third-gen River Ewing aimed to transition the family business to an investing family in this rapidly growing sector

May 7, 2024
Fundamentals

Ajay Virmani, founder and executive chairman of Mississauga, Ont.-based Cargojet Inc., stands next to an airplane wing and engine with planes visible in the background.

Cargojet founder Ajay Virmani on ‘starting an airline just after 9/11’

How he survived his first winter in Canada, how he grew Mississauga-based airfreight firm into a multi-billion-dollar company and what’s next

February 8, 2024
Family Business

Sam Ibrahim, president of Scarborough-based Arrow Group of Companies, stands next to a poster of the an artist's rendering of the building that will be created because he recently donated $25 million to create the Sam Ibrahim Centre of Inclusive Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus so other locals could build up their ventures and their community: “No one was coming to save us and that mentality still shapes me now.”

Sam Ibrahim: Son of Scarborough makes and gives millions

Sam Ibrahim, of Arrow Group of Companies, recently donated $25 million to foster entrepreneurship through the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus

January 26, 2024
Philanthropy, Wealth

Arlene Dickinson: Dragons’ Den star, businesswoman, investor, author, and founder and managing general partner at Calgary-based District Ventures Capital, which invests in the food and beverage and health and wellness sectors.

Arlene Dickinson: what works in venture capital

The Calgary Dragons’ Den investor on her family’s immigration experience, working for free and what shaped her as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist

January 25, 2024
Wealth

VC Kevin O’Leary: “My mother said, ‘When you work for somebody, you’ve got to do exactly what they say.’ That was the last day I ever worked for anybody.”

Ice cream, dyslexia and mom: Kevin O’Leary’s journey

The investor and TV personality, including Dragons’ Den and Shark Tank, is starting a new venture to do with one of his passions: watches

January 2, 2024
Wealth

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