12/08/2014

Most business-savvy legal professionals I know spend a significant portion of their time and revenue on advertising and marketing activities. I've found that this is particularly true for those of you in areas like personal injury, insolvency and employment law. As you are undoubtedly aware, practices can spend tens of thousands of dollars on TV advertisements, billboards and print advertising. On top of all the effort you are expending on managing...

12/01/2014

Doctors - just a reminder that registration for Wave 2 of Canada Health Infoway's eBooking initiative closes December 15th! E-booking is one of Canada Health Infoway’s key initiatives right now. Licensed physicians and nurse practitioners who implement an e-booking solution, like Kabuk, by December 15th are eligible to receive up to $2,000 through the Canada Health Infoway e-Booking initiative (a further per-clinician amount of $750 may be reimbursed...
In a start-up, there is a 0% chance that you will always agree or get along with your co-founders (no matter how awesome indeed your co-founders are!). That's not necessarily a bad thing. When this happens, what do you do? While this is hardly a start-up specific problem, I think that when you are arguing over your "baby", things just have the potential to get that much more "heated". After all, unlike employees in a firm, you and your co-founders...

11/27/2014

Team Kabuk is extremely pleased to introduce long awaited support for clinics!  So what's new? Clinic Creation: Clinic owners can now create a clinic and easily add practitioners. More key functionality for clinics will be heading your way very soon, including the ability to assign administrators to oversee practitioner schedules. Up next? Some exciting new resources, admin functionality, testimonials, and the ability to claim your pro...

11/20/2014

The problem with business plans, in the most traditional sense of the term, is that they are static;  A window into, or snapshot of, your business at a very specific moment in time. You write one, or many - everyone seems to have their own required standard template - and then they just sit there and stagnate. As a start-up, your business is changing exponentially every day. New obstacles and data have a way of making themselves known constantly...

11/18/2014

I recently became aware of the trend towards cross-training in dental offices. I immediately called my friend, a dental hygienist to see if "cross-training" in the world of dentistry was a real, or common, phenomena. I was somewhat unsettled to learn that it was. It was time to do some research. So - what exactly is cross-training anyhow? Cross-training is the practice of training an employee who has been hired for one role to do tasks associated...

11/15/2014

I can't tell you how many articles I've read espousing the need to fund more women led companies, or provide more mentorship opportunities. Countless. The truth? Getting funding for a start-up is hard no matter who you are. Is it harder for a woman? Maybe.... Probably. I'm certainly not trying to downplay the stats on men vs. women-led companies getting VC funding.  In truth, the bigger problem for us was experience (i.e. previous successful...