Category: Professional Development

Sandbox is incredibly excited to post this guest blog post, written by Daniel Lewis – Author, Entrepreneur and International Speaker. In this blog post, Daniel outlines his personal entrepreneurial fears and experiences. He highlights how to overcome those fears and work towards building success. I can’t begin to tell you how many things I’ve done,…

The Federal Government offers a research and development tax credit program for businesses called Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED). Most provinces and territories have created their own versions of this program that can be stacked with SR&ED tax credits. Because this federal program has been so successful, most provinces and territories have created their own…

Increasing interest rates, talk of a recession, what does this mean to the business? Having lived through 16+% interest rates in the 1980’s, the .com busts of the late 1990’s, and our collective experiences a few years ago with government support necessary for major industry, what should we be thinking about? Plan for the worst…

Are you in finance and responsible for IT operations?  If so, this blog post is for you.IT often reports to finance, and finance has a limited knowledge of IT needs and operations.The challenge is the understanding in IT policies, decision making models, budget approach, and technology knowledge. The good news is that good business leaders…

Every business has different needs. Understanding those needs is a major key to success. Knowing where your business is at in its life cycle can give you some insight into what your business needs might be. It can also help you understand what is required to grow to the next level, what might be holding you…

Patent Law OverviewWhat is a Patent?A patent is a government grant of the exclusive right to make, use, and sell the subject matter of a recent invention (Patent Act, RSC 1985, c P-4, s 42)Pertains to inventionsany new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement therein…