The E-Entrepreneur

Published by the Financial Post about Mark Mawhinney, my advisor. Mark is an entrepreneur himself and in this article, he shares his experiences with his two startups. It is a good read. Mark keeps a blog too: R. H. Mark Mawhinney’s take on things

We can all benefit from hard-learned lessons
How to avoid most-common mistakes

Business can be messy. It comes with endless disputes, disappointments and mistakes. But it’s a rare setback that doesn’t carry some lesson that can help you win next time.

Mark Mawhinney was in his early 20s and running a buffet restaurant in Edmonton when he discovered one of his servers was doctoring customers’ credit card receipts to give herself bigger tips. For nearly a year he’d had a bad feeling about that employee, but ignored it until he discovered her fraudulent activities, and she was quickly dismissed. When something seems out of sorts, it’s a problem to investigate, not a hunch to be ignored, he says.

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