How to manage the financial side of your startup.
Reading time: 5 minutes. General and administrative (G&A) expenses are the day-to-day costs associated with running a business. Everything from the wages you pay your administrative staff to the rent for your office space count as a G&A expense. Although your business might not tie G&A expenses to a specific function or department of your … Read more
Reading time: 5 minutes. Software companies need to balance profit and growth to survive, thrive and become attractive targets for venture capital firms (VC). One benchmark investors and analysts use to ensure a company is a good investment is a metric called the Rule of 40. This calculation provides a quick way to measure a … Read more
When measuring your business’s financial health, your cash burn rate is one of the most critical metrics to consider.
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a founder, some of your biggest responsibilities are setting strategy, hiring the right people and maintaining cash runway. A startup’s runway is the number of months it can operate before it runs out of money. Just like a plane, a startup needs the perfect runway to reach its goals smoothly … Read more
Reading time: 4 minutes The new decade has started with what will be one of its most defining moment. COVID-19 isn’t only affecting people’s health around the world but it has also plagued the market with uncertainty. Investors dislike nothing more uncertainty, risk and deflation. So, they too are going to stay home and keep … Read more
The “level” at which you assess SR&ED efforts is vital to the success of an SR&ED claim, as a recent tax court case has proved. A&D, a manufacturer of machine components, had an unfavourable outcome to three SR&ED claims relating to developing massive lathes. The CRA concluded that the projects undertaken did not contribute to … Read more
What is machine learning? In the most general terms, machine learning is a specialized branch of artificial intelligence mixed with the latest advancements in data science. It is a particular application of AI – a method of analyzing data that automates the building of analytical models. The basic principle of machine learning is that systems … Read more
3 Things In Biotech You Should Learn Today What Is Biotechnology? If you follow the stock market, then you probably already know that ‘biotech’ stocks are on the rise. Biotechnology is a big buzzword these days across diverse fields such as industrial manufacturing, plant and animal agricultural sectors, medicine, fertility, and pharmaceutical therapies. The term’s … Read more
How to Prepare for Raising Debt Raising debt is one of the best ways to ensure that your new venture is properly funded, and it’s the one of the tools that many entrepreneurs use nowadays. However, it requires preparation and a calculated approach to ensure that you’ll get good results, and if you are not … Read more
As every news outlet in the country starts to weigh in on the 2018 Federal Budget, I thought I’d share my two cents from the Venbridge office. The 2018 Canadian Federal budget will have quite a significant impact on SME’s. IRAP has a lot more money to allocate, women in technology are receiving a number … Read more