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Being an Entrepreneur | March 2026
Picture: Silicon Halton Tech Under 20 Event Featured in this Post Forget the Business Plan. This 10-Slide Deck Helped Me Raise Millions What Draws People to Harmony Centre? Canada's Top Startup Ecosystems Are Hemorrhaging Value and Growth Due to Structural Funding Gaps Bruce Power Unit 3 Is Moving Into the Final Phase of Return-to-Service Ontario Backs Historic $250-Million Expansion of SON-Bruce Power Isotopes Partnership Grey County Projected to Experience Strong Growth Ove
Chris Herbert
4 days ago6 min read


Business Relationship Management Framework: How to Evaluate Your Partnerships and Opportunities
Explore the business relationship management framework to enhance your partnerships and opportunities. Discover strategic insights for effective management.
Chris Herbert
Mar 14 min read


How to Build Relationships in Business: Who’s Worth Your Time and Who Isn’t
This post is part of our Business Relationships series, which explores how entrepreneurs can build, evaluate, and protect the partnerships that drive their business forward. Start with the series overview: Business Relationships: Why Trust Is the Foundation . I had coffee recently with an entrepreneur who wanted to partner with me. He was smart. He was driven. He had ideas about disrupting three different industries before I’d finished my first cup. And somewhere around the n
Chris Herbert
Mar 17 min read


Business Relationships: Why Trust Is the Foundation Everything Else Is Built On
Use this framework to build trust with your B2B customers.
Chris Herbert
Mar 16 min read


Business Relationship Development: The Value Exchange Model for Building a Network That Works
Explore business relationship development with the Value Exchange Model. Discover how business relationship development can enhance your network.
Chris Herbert
Mar 15 min read


Being an Entrepreneur | February 2026
AREA 81 Meetup Featured in this Post Get Started with Cowork: Claude's Desktop Agent for Knowledge Work Succession Planning: Why Delaying Costs More Than Money Is Your Venture Capital Industry Quietly Leaving Billions in Economic Value on the Table? Picking Board Members for Early-Stage Startups: What Actually Matters What to Know About Equity Take-Outs: Turning Property into Business Growth Rural Renaissance: Why Canada's Economy Is Outgrowing Its Big Cities This Gen Z Pair
Chris Herbert
Feb 2810 min read


What We're Learning From Talking to Entrepreneurs
Over the past few months, we've been running interviews with founders and business owners across Grey Bruce and the surrounding region. Not to pitch them. Not to validate a product idea. Just to listen. We wanted to understand what's actually happening for people running businesses in rural Canada. What's working. What's not. What keeps coming up — not in theory, but in real conversations with real operators. We've talked to early-stage founders, growth-stage owners, people c
Chris Herbert
Feb 185 min read


Being an Entrepreneur in 2026 | January Round Up
Photo: AREA 81 Coffee Chat in Owen Sound, Ontario. Featured in this Post It's Go Time Get Your Business AI-Ready: A Guide for Entrepreneurs Get Good at [AI] Agents The Carney Doctrine: Between rhetoric and reality Ontario Investing to Protect Rural Communities The Truth About Family Offices and the New Farm Legacy Bruce Power signs multi-year agreement with NPX to drive innovation and growth Research: Conventional Cybersecurity Won’t Protect Your AI Rural America is getting a
Chris Herbert
Jan 2510 min read
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