Your Year-end Roundup

A good time to bring you up to date on some of my significant columns of the past few weeks.
This list includes a look back, a very cool profile of a food-industry innovator,  some useful how-to articles, the adventures of a group of young Canadian entrepreneurs in Israel, and a revisionist interview with one of the pioneers of the "lean startup" movement.
Just click on each title for more.

The top lessons we learned from gutsy Canadian entrepreneurs in 2014

Make your wish list and check it twice: What you want may not be what’s best for your business

Guy Kawasaki’s 7 tips for better social media storytelling

How to market to people who don’t know they need you

Why Israel is the ideal place to teach Canadian ntrepreneurs how to succeed

The secret behind the whirlwind success of new food startup U-Be-Livin-Smart - makes of the world's first healthy candy

Canadian entrepreneurs can’t rely on Silicon Valley ‘lean startup’ bible, author admits