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How to Sell Your House in a Weekend for Top Dollar

Published June 2, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: Real Estate / For the HomeTagged housing market, Calgary, selling our family home, selling your home, problem with selling our house, real estate, realtor, MLS, renovation budget, Refinished hardwood floors, description of the house for the MLS listing, pictures for our MLS listing, home sold, home resale market, listing your home, move-in ready, Home buyers, How to Write a Great MLS House Description, How to Sell Your House Fast, Renovations That Add Value to Your House
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You may have read a recent blog of mine, which mentioned the fact we were selling our family home. With a growing young family, my wife and I decided we need more land for the kids to play on, so we committed to build a …

The 5 Biggest Mistakes Landlords Make

Published May 29, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: Real Estate / For the HomeTagged landlord, rental properties, investment properties, best ways to generate passive income, Mistakes Landlords Make, find the perfect tenant for your rental property, lease agreements with tenants, inexperienced landlords, common mistakes made by landlords, pick the right investment properties
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Investment properties are simple to run when you’ve done your homework or have experience – it’s not rocket science and being a landlord is one of the best ways to generate passive income. However, rental properties can be disastrous for haphazard first-time landlords. In light …

Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth

Published May 23, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: StartupsTagged entrepreneurs, perseverance, business plan, Stress, entrepreneurial plans, risk mitigations strategies, adapt and innovate, rebrand, prepare for a worst-case scenario with your business, all businesses are cyclical, recessions, great mindset for entrepreneurs, deflation, Ways to Prepare Your Business for the Worst-Case Scenario
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Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson famously said, “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Entrepreneurs are among the best at planning, but never has any business plan gone exactly according to a script. In fact, many businesses start out with a …

Apple Invests $1 Billion in Uber’s Chinese Competitor

Published May 12, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: TransportTagged Uber, investors, Apple, Tesla, Tech companies are becoming car companies, tech gadget, automobile and transportation industries, iCar, Didi’s largest investor, Didi, Apple has invested $1 billion into Didi, tech company is looking to disrupt the automobile industry
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Tech companies are becoming car companies and vice versa. What does that tell investors? The industry is setting up for some serious consolidation and M&A. As Apple has struggled to come up with a new tech gadget the world ‘must have’ for five years and …

How to Create the Best Website for Your Business

Published May 1, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: The Web, StartupsTagged entrepreneurs, entrepreneur, open-source website design, Wordpress, Ruby on Rails, Drupal, online marketer, lead generation, good website, building a website, Commercial Off-the-Shelf, COTS, custom coding, differentiate your company online
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With all the excellent open-source website design platforms out there now such as WordPress, Ruby on Rails, Drupal etc. the shelf life for website designs has dropped dramatically. Most sustainable websites, by that I mean those that actually make a profit, are redesigned every 12-18 …

5 Keys to a Killer Investor Pitch Deck

Published April 29, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: StartupsTagged entrepreneur, venture capitalists, closing the deal, VCs, The 5 Keys to a Powerful Pitch Deck, pitch your startup, pitch deck, investor deck, great pitch decks, purpose of a pitch deck, startup stage
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I’ve been on both sides of the proverbial table. I’ve had businesses pitched to me, and pitched VCs on why they should invest in my business. Whether or not you even get a seat at the table to pitch your startup face to face with …

How to Get Great Tenants in a Bad Rental Market

Published April 28, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: Real Estate / For the HomeTagged tenants, rental property, rental market in Manhattan, landlords, invest it in your suite, prospective tenant, tough rental market, Invest in your rental property
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From the luxury condo rental market in Manhattan to townhouses in the oil town of Calgary, cities which not too long ago gave landlords a rental shortage with heavy demand from tenants are seeing the tide turn. Landlords are now having to compete for the …

Pay Down Your Mortgage or Save?

Published April 11, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: Real Estate / For the Home, StartupsTagged landlord, real estate investors, central bankers, economy based off debt, negative interest rate, risk in the housing market, paying down mortgage balances, buy new investment properties, hot housing market, paying down your investment properties, housing market
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We are living in strange times. Western world central bankers are creating an economy based off debt, which is scary because consumers have demonstrated in decades past a general lack of fiscal responsibility when credit is cheap. What’s more, some countries in the Western world, …

The $30,000 Domain Name

Published March 29, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: The Web, StartupsTagged ROI, entrepreneur, four types of entrepreneurs, patience, successful internet marketer, researching, new startup ideas, research binges, domain name, domain, valuable domain name, pursuing your ideas, Believe in your ideas
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This is a story about the value of patience and following through on your ideas… A childhood friend, who I still hang and work with on various projects, is a very successful internet marketer. Like me, he’s been an entrepreneur since adolescence. Birds of a …

Why SPIE Photonics is Better for Investors than CES

Published February 21, 2016 by Aaron Hoddinott
Category: Technology, StartupsTagged venture capital, startups, passion, investment opportunities, innovators, angel investors, lens technology, SPIE Photonics show in San Francisco, SPIE, lens design, SPIE Photonics West, CES, International Year of Light, light-based technologies, VC, entrepreneur looking for opportunities, Canon’s new lens system, SPIE Photonics is the Best Show for Tech Investors, photonics, tech investors
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Meeting the management of startups is THE way to gauge the worthiness of a possible investment, particularly with technology-related companies… Last week, along with my company which is working on a lens technology that has real game-changing potential in the imaging space, I headed to …

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