This summer, for the first time since the start of the pandemic, we gathered all of our employees together in Ottawa for a three-day meeting. I can’t emphasize how wonderful that meeting was. Not only…
As an entrepreneur, the details of corporate governance have always been a bit of a mystery to me. But rules and process are important, all the more so since we must now report to our…
I recently received an accolade that I’m very proud of. Every year, in my hometown of Ottawa, the Ottawa Business Journal and the Ottawa Board of Trade join forces to present the Forty under 40…
If you’ve been following my recent posts, you know that Knak has nearly doubled in size in the last few months. We’ve had a blast finding new team members to add to our collective skill set…
In one of my very first jobs, I was a marketer at a software company. Three years in, my boss asked me to go to a trade show and help staff our booth. As a…
We’re heading to Austin next week for Forrester’s B2B Summit. Will we see you there? For anyone headed to the Bat City 🦇 (hands up if you knew people called Austin that, because we sure…
Between November 2021 and April of this year, the Knak team grew from 34 employees to 62. And as we went through this growth spurt, I expected that nearly doubling the size of our staff would…
Once a year, I gather Knak’s leadership team for an annual planning meeting. We look at numbers, set targets, and generally figure out what we want to focus on for the coming year. Sounds straightforward,…
For any startup, getting funding from investors is a huge step. The founder who has been daydreaming about what they would do if they suddenly had a pot of money to play with can now…
For the last few months, I’ve been almost entirely focused on raising Knak’s first infusion of outside capital. The process ended with last month’s announcement that Insight Partners, a venture capital firm based in New…