Startup Finance Audio Series

By Dr. Sean Wise

What's Startup Finance Audio Series about?

Award-winning entrepreneur host Dr. Sean Wise, professor of entrepreneurship at Ryerson University, talks to leading entrepreneurs and investors to help entrepreneurs finance their businesses.

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Startup Finance Audio Series episodes:

02.25.2019
Building a Fortune 500 with Randy Cass – February 25 2019
Randy Cass is an investment portfolio manager, who’s been in the industry over 15 years. He is also the founder and CEO of Nest Wealth, an innovative fintech based on robo-advisors that gives investors more personalize and transparent wealth management...
02.04.2019
Finding Funding for your Business with Mike Lee – February 11 2019
Mike Lee is the president of Fudica.com. Fudica is Canada’s most successful traditional funding identification and connection platform. It which matches entrepreneurs, private investors, public funders and advisors through an award-winner crowdsourcing technology. Mike is also the President of R&D;...
01.21.2019
Start with Creating Value with Deborah Sweeney – January 21 2019
Deborah Sweeney is the CEO and Owner of MyCorporation, a complete online provider of filing services for small businesses and entrepreneurs for over twenty years. “Being an entrepreneur, being the master of my own destiny, that is where I found...
01.07.2019
Beyond Product and Profit with Margaux Khoury – January 7 2019
Margaux Khoury is the CEO of “The Best Deodorant In The World,” a company based in New Brunswick that she started out of her kitchen with her husband Joshua. She is a compassionate, heart-centered entrepreneur who operates by two very...
12.24.2018
Avoiding Financial Roadblocks with Janine Rogan – December 24 2018
Janine Rogan is a Calgary-based CPA and Personal Finance Expert at her namesake company, JanineRogan.com. She is incredibly passionate about financial literacy and shares her wealth of knowledge to individuals and businesses across Canada. “Money doesn’t have to be scary...
12.10.2018
Your Business as a Global Experience with Paul Gaspar – December 10, 2018
Paul is the Director of Small Business at UPS Canada, where he’s responsible for connecting and working with small businesses to educate and inform them on the many opportunities available to go global.“The one thing we’re not doing a good...
11.26.2018
Removing the Stigma of Debt with Patrice Mousseau – November 26, 2018
Patrice Mousseau is an Ojibway entrepreneur from Fort William First Nation, Ontario, who solved a market gap by creating a new line of organic skin care products out of her very own kitchen. Patrice Mousseau is the owner of company,...
11.12.2018
Toward the Cashless Economy with Iain McLean – November 12, 2018
Have you ever wondered what a cashless society will look like? Should your business even consider committing to electronic payments? “As we see better and better technology that make electronic payments faster, more convenient, and safer, we’ll see a greater acceleration...
10.29.2018
Protecting your Business with Guy Charpentier – October 29, 2018
Guy Charpentier is the Manager of Customer Fraud Management at Mastercard. His day to day involves protecting Mastercard’s customers against global security breaches while following the latest fraud trends. “If you’re not investing in tools to protect yourself and not making...
10.15.2018
Comparisons Made for Saving with Alyssa Furtado – October 15, 2018
Alyssa is the Co-Founder of Toronto’s Ratehub Inc which owns and operates Ratehub.ca, an online comparison platform for mortgage rates, credit cards, deposits, and insurance. “I was doing some consultancy previously in the U.S. in the financial services and we...
10.01.2018
The Art and the Science of Growth with Michael Litt – October 1. 2018
Michael Litt is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vidyard. As a thought leader, serial entrepreneur, and a surfer, Michael has scaled one of the most innovative video analytics technologies. “We didn’t start this business with any financial background,” says Michael. “We...
09.17.2018
Building Relationships to Grow with David Nault – September 17, 2018
How do you meet investors? How do you pitch them and stand out from the crowd? “Building relationships is the key,” says David Nault, a seasoned venture capitalist, and the former principal at iNovia Capital, a $500M VC firm based in...
09.04.2018
Tax Benefits for Your Business with Bob Gauvreau – September 4, 2018
Bob Gauvreau is the founding partner of Gauvreau & Associates CPA, a firm that works with entrepreneurs to help them grow their business, increase profits, and pay fewer taxes. Gauvreau & Associates has been recognized as one of Canada’s fastest...
08.20.2018
It’s About the Execution with Eva Lau – August 20, 2018
As the managing partner and co-founder of Two Small Fish Ventures, Eva Lau is passionate about her job and hopes to nurture Canadian companies to scale and become next-generation tech giants. “Canada needs more tech giants and it needs more aspiring...
08.06.2018
Pitching, Pivots and Profits with Nicole Verkindt – August 6, 2018
Failure is part and parcel of entrepreneurship. With every failure, you grow. Yet, many of us still don’t know how to master the art of failing with grace. In this week’s #FinancePodcast, host Dr. Sean Wise talks to Nicole about...
08.06.2018
Pitching, Pivots and Profits with Nicole Verkindt – August 6, 2018
Failure is part and parcel of entrepreneurship. With every failure, you grow. Yet, many of us still don’t know how to master the art of failing with grace. In this week’s #FinancePodcast, host Dr. Sean Wise talks to Nicole about...

What's Startup Finance Audio Series about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Startup Finance Audio Series episodes:

Building a Fortune 500 with Randy Cass – February 25 2019

Finding Funding for your Business with Mike Lee – February 11 2019

Start with Creating Value with Deborah Sweeney – January 21 2019

Beyond Product and Profit with Margaux Khoury – January 7 2019

Avoiding Financial Roadblocks with Janine Rogan – December 24 2018

Your Business as a Global Experience with Paul Gaspar – December 10, 2018

Removing the Stigma of Debt with Patrice Mousseau – November 26, 2018

Toward the Cashless Economy with Iain McLean – November 12, 2018

Protecting your Business with Guy Charpentier – October 29, 2018

Comparisons Made for Saving with Alyssa Furtado – October 15, 2018

The Art and the Science of Growth with Michael Litt – October 1. 2018

Building Relationships to Grow with David Nault – September 17, 2018

Tax Benefits for Your Business with Bob Gauvreau – September 4, 2018

It’s About the Execution with Eva Lau – August 20, 2018

Pitching, Pivots and Profits with Nicole Verkindt – August 6, 2018

Pitching, Pivots and Profits with Nicole Verkindt – August 6, 2018