Blogs

• SmartAB™ - A VISUAL GUIDE To Profitable Entrepreneurship – Chapter 2: On VCs, CVCs, PEs, Venture Studios & Family Offices
• SmartAB™ - A VISUAL GUIDE To Profitable Entrepreneurship – Chapter 1: All CEOs Great & Small…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #61: Let AI Calculate Your Salary… And Receive Different Paychecks Each Month – Part 3
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #60: Let AI Calculate Your Salary… And Receive Different Paychecks Each Month – Part 2
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #59: Let AI Calculate Your Salary… And Receive Different Paychecks Each Month – Part 1
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #58: The Evolution Of Venture Capital – Venture Studios And Family Offices To The Rescue…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #57: How I Cured Academic Integrity Headaches Caused By AI
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #56: Why Elon Musk Finally Admits The Failure Of Autonomous Driving (AD)
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #55: Why Some Industries Still Fail Total Quality Management (TQM) Objectives
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #54: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 4: It All Boils Down To A Single Word…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #53: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 3: Asymmetric Negotiations
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #52: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 2: Hardware To The Rescue…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #51: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 1: My Humble Neural Networks Beginnings…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #50: The VC Returns Are Dismal. Can CVCs Do A Better Job?
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #49: The 2024 Death Knell To The Autonomous Driving Coffin?
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #48: How Could A Bad COPQ Make This Leading Telco… Lose Billions – A True Story!
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #47: Why ChatGPT & Copilot Make Some VCs Look Like… Idiots – Part 2
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #46: Why ChatGPT & Copilot Make Some VCs Look Like… Idiots – Part 1
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #45: Are Lawyers Missing The Greatest Business Opportunity Of This Decade?
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #44: I Can't Force CEOs To Use My KEE To The Gates Of Profitability. But Their BODs Can…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #43: Your Startup's Success Depends On COMBINED PERSONALITIES Of The Founding Team
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #42: What Can Charlie Chaplin Teach Lawyers About AI And Self-Driving Cars?
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #41: Still Guessing The Best Age To Launch A Successful Startup?
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #40: Holly Branson – And The Complexities Of Passing The Entrepreneurial Torch…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #39: The Norwegian Push-Pull… With The New York State Of Mind...
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #38: What Can Successful Fishermen Teach Aspiring Entrepreneurs?
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #37: Sir, Are You Going To Buy This Monkey?
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #36: Truckin' In The Time Of ChatGPT…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #35: Would You Buy A Bottle Of Beer for $80,000?
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #34: One year ago, I Reinvented Advisory Boards. Today, I am changing the VC world - forever…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #33: SMBs Need Help. And We Can Deliver Such Help Swiftly & Effectively - In One Fell Swoop…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #32: How To Boost IP Filings Using Common-Sense Push/Pull Strategies
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #31: The 3 Most Important Due Diligence Questions To Ask – Before Investing In A Seed-Stage Startups…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #30: VCs, CVCs, Accelerators, Incubators & Venture Studios – Is That All There Is?
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #29: Call It Coaching, Mentoring, Advising, Consulting – As Long As You Have An Open Mind, It's All Semantics…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #28: How To Lose $3 billion, $5 billion, and even $824 billion in one year - by not listening to my advice…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #27: What Can I Say Except You're Welcome, Elon Musk – Thank You Dwayne Johnson!
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #26 - Is Elon Musk Going To Do It?
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #25: Don't Go To Business With Your Eyes Wide Shot…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #24: Venture Capital In Time Of Arrogance And Disconnect
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #23: Avoid Metaverse Halloween Carnage
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #22: Smile... The Invisalign Way
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #21: Why Elon Musk's Political Idealism Is Detached From Reality
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #20: Accept That We Are Not Living In A Perfect World - Europe Needs Canadian Energy Now…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #19: Learn From Microsoft & Google Mistakes – They Can Afford Losing Billions, You Can't…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #18: Read My AI Book – It's FREE To All The Paid Subscribers To SmartAB™
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #17: Look At Yourself In A Mirror & Ask The Following Questions…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #16: Learn The ENTREPRENEURIAL ARBITRAGE And Use It To Avoid Losses…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #15: Learn How To Pivot And Never Look Back…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #14: Join the most EXCLUSIVE Cleantech Entrepreneurship in the world!
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #13: Get A Haircut At Your Local Barber - Not An Advice On Finding A Co-Founder…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #12: Work Smarter, Not Harder
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #11: Never Give Up - Even During The VC Carnage of 2022…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #10: Follow This Simple Recommendation & Win - It's Easier Than You Think
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #9 - Apply The Sutton Rule To Survive The Venture Capital Crash…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #8 - Focus On What You Can Control, Not On What You Can't…
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #7 - Turn Ideas Into A Successful Business
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #6 - Learn From The Housing Bubbles
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #5 - Master The Speed Of Thought
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #4 - Cozy Up To CVCs
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #3 - Add IQ To Your Subscription Model
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #2 - Embrace Metaverse
• SmartAB™ Wisdom #1 - Avoid Taking Debt!
• SmartAB™ - Reinventing Advisory Boards
• Atlantic Crossing Redux?…
• NATO - In 2 Words, Please
• Bravo Primus & Congratulations On A Job Well Done!
• NATO – It's Time To Flex The Muscle…
• What's Your Case?
• The Curse Of Doing Nothing
• Green Hydrogen – More Than Meets The Eye…
• To All The Davids Fighting Their Goliaths…
• Two Heads Are Better Than One
• What Does It Take To Be A Mensch?
• Redefining Venture Capital With Equity Crowdfunding
• How Will Be COP26 Remembered?
• To Do, Or Not To Do An MBA
• Canada Is The World's Greatest Manufacturer Of… HOUSING BUBBLES…
• How Do You Know When To Use AI?
• To Be, Or Not To Be… A Consultant – Part 2
• To Be, Or Not To Be… A Consultant – Part 1
• OK, Google – Drive…
• Elections & The Canadian Housing Bubble
• Ten CEO Advisory Gifts Of Wisdom – Part 2
• Ten CEO Advisory Gifts Of Wisdom – Part 1
• LinkedIn – The Mother Of All Pitches?
• Beware Of The Tight-Squeeze On Mid-Size VCs
• Ten Advisory Board Gifts of Wisdom – Part 4
• Ten Advisory Board Gifts of Wisdom – Part 3
• Ten Advisory Board Gifts of Wisdom – Part 2
• Ten Advisory Board Gifts of Wisdom – Part 1
• Reinventing GovR&D - From The Silence Of The Lambs To The Roar Of A Lion…
• My Story: SPACs – Wharton, Warts And All…
• My Story: Relational AND Transactional Business Of Nuclear Medicine
• My Story: Keyword Spotting & The Magic Of Closing The Deal
• My Story: The Power Of The OPPOSITES
• 1001... Entrepreneurial Tales
• CGE's Present - Take Two...
• Did Bell's HQ Move To Mars?
• Reinventing BOD - LeanBOD To The Rescue
• Chapter 9 – AI & Job Creation Using Smart Economic Policies
• Reinventing Associations
• Reinventing IBM – A True Story
• Content Is Eating The World
• Bravo Amazon – KDP Self-Publishing Rocks!
• Advisory Board ABCs – Part 4
• Advisory Board ABCs – Part 3
• Advisory Board ABCs – Part 2
• How Important Are Advisory Boards, Anyway? – Part 1
• Reinventing Virgin Atlantic
• Reinventing MEC
• Nadya – World's Best Reinvention Officer
• REINVENTING TSX – A True Story
• Bill Gates: We Have A Problem!
• Reinventing XXX
• Reinventing GoDaddy
• Reinventing Bombardier
• Reinventing ALW
• Reinventing Boeing
• Reinventing Indigo
• Reinventing Booking
• BOD COVID-19 Impact
• To Do What It Takes
• Greening the Oil Sands
• Nonprofits Post COVID-19
• What Can Healthcare Workers Teach CEOs
• To Mask Or Not To Mask
• An Open Letter To The Premier
• For whom the Bell tolls?
• Unless your name is Moses...
• Coronavirus Data Analytics
• Balancing 3 Pillars of Success
• Finding The Balance In Data Analytics
• Why COP25 Failed And How To Fix It
• How Warm Is Your Pitch Anyway?
• Capitalism 2.0 - Part 3
• Capitalism 2.0 - Part 2
• Capitalism 2.0 - Part 1
• LeanCVC™ - A Match Made In Heaven
• AI Boogeyman Book - Available on Amazon!
• The Prophet
• AI BOOGEYMAN - Who Is This Book Targeting?
• AI BOOGEYMAN - Dispelling Fake News About Job Losses
• How To Turn Gatekeepers Into CEO's Greatest Asset
• Canada-Israel Weed Nirvana
• Democracy Is Coming To A Financial Fraud Near You
• How To Eliminate Billions In Credit Card Fraud By Lifting An Index Finger
• Can AI Help When Thieves Like Your Luxury Car The Most?
• You Can't Win It, If Not In It...
• Utility 2.0: AI-Driven Digital Transformation That Changes Everything…
• Are We All Barking Up The Wrong Trees?
• 30 Entrepreneurial Gifts Of Wisdom – You Can Take To The Bank...
• Did INSEAD Just Bring Us French Revolution Of The 21st Century?
• Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Is Google Fairest Of Them All?
• Can $17 Investment Double $15B R&D Budget?
• Is Jeff Bezos Darth Vader of Retail Industry?
• And You Thought We Lost Manufacturing Jobs Forever
• Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due – Steve Blank
• If I could only offer a single advice to a progressive CEO
• What Deep Learning Is Good For
• How To Turn Corporate Venture Capital Into A Magnet
• Flood Victims Sympathy Is Not Enough - Time for Flood Prevention 2.0
• A train ride from Kitchener to Timbuktu, no wait, I meant ....Toronto
• Deadly Marketing Mistake And Two-Step Solution To Avoid Losses
• Kill Switch & The Winter of Our Discontent - Part 2
• Kill Switch & The Winter of Our Discontent - Part 1
• After The Flood
• When Encryption Is Used By Terrorists
• Please don't send me on Mars
• 3 Tips to Avoid Startup Funeral
• Self-driving Hype vs Self-parking Reality
• Are you ready to send your kid on a school bus WITHOUT a driver?
• Plan B Ventures - The Last Call...
• On AI, Autopilots, Self-Driving Cars….and the Bee Question
• To Lease, or not to Lease, that is the Question
• Is Thought Leadership Dead?
• Branding & Rebranding Utility 2.0 - The Times They Are A-Changin'
• Does 3c/kWh solar PV tariff still make economic sense?
• SunEdison – were they lead to, or pushed off the cliff?
• On Board of Directors – And Why Competence Is Not Enough
• The Canadian Housing Bubble – And How To Fix It At One Fell Swoop
• Corporate Venture Capital – The Most Underutilized Factor Endowment Of Corporate Giants
• On Encryption - And The Need For Finding The Balance
• Keyword Spotting - The Art Of Listening & Observing
• The Surface Phone Debacle
• The Inquiring Mind