Stephanie Hughes

Published in The Startup

·Jan 19, 2021

Tug-of-War: Canada’s Small Business Community & Rolling Restrictions

This story was originally published on Stephanie Hughes Journalism.com HERE’S AN OFTEN-QUOTED STATISTIC: 20 per cent of businesses don’t survive in the first two years of their opening. Five years go by and that number balloons to 45 per cent. Give it ten years, and that’s 65 per cent. …

Small Business

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Small Business

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Jun 21, 2020

Evan Siddall Versus the World: A Summary of the 2020 CMHC Saga

This article was originally featured on Stephanie Hughes Journalism.com WHEN YOU THINK OF AN INTERNET SPAT between two opposing viewpoints, you probably wouldn’t expect a crown insurance lending corporation and a few major real estate companies to be at the center of it. Then again, you also probably wouldn’t expect…

Real Estate

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Evan Siddall Versus the World: A Summary of the 2020 CMHC Saga

Real Estate

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Apr 12, 2020

Why No One is Buying into the AirBnB Pity Party

The court of public opinion is a very delicate place, and a company like AirBnB — with all of the unsubtle characters that brought it success — show just how quickly an organization can find itself on the jury’s bad side. AirBnB was founded in 2008, marketed as a discount…

Airbnb

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Airbnb

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Published in DataDrivenInvestor

·Feb 3, 2020

The Lessons Learned from the Tech Unicorn Stampede of ‘19

Even more valuable than the profits investors make in the stock market are the hard lessons they learn along the way… Thing is, the lessons are only valuable if they’re actually learned. I’ve been meaning to write about this topic for a while since the year 2019 presented an interesting…

Unicorns

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Unicorns

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Published in The Startup

·Jan 13, 2020

The End of Nine-to-Five: The Inevitable Gig Economy

If you worked an office job many years ago and five o’clock rolled around, you would stretch, gather your things, and clock out for the day. Maybe you’d even leave a half-hour earlier if it’s a Friday. …

Gig Economy

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