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Hey Seb - DM coming your way

Hey Jonathan! I'd be happy to be a mock panelist if you are interested. I'm a lawyer working with several startups here in Toronto. Let me know in Messenger

I’d be happy to have a look as well.

Hey Jonathan, I'd be happy to have a look/give you feedback. Send me a message :)

Happy to help. Feel free to send me a message.

Happy to if I can help

Sure thing, I work in startups but I also have a background in investment banking. Send me a dm.

Be careful taking feedback from irrelevant perspectives. It could do more harm than good. Know your audience and test a similar one if you really want useful critique.

Happy to, feel free to DM

Happy to participate Jonathan Sturgeon DM if you still need someone

Paul Brassard and Volition are great for this. Try joining a pitch night.

Happy to. Seen a lot and help mentor dozens of startups a year. [email protected]

Happy to! [email protected]

Would be happy to! Kindly DM

use Keene Angle, Story Pitch Decks. you won't regret it

Happy to help.

Happy to help!

Would be happy to help Jonathan

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You should separate your personal banking and business banking at the very least, and have a separate credit card for business transactions - sets a solid foundation for tax time etc. As for accounts, most will offer a fee, minimum $5-10/month, and depends on if you need to use cash transactions or not, otherwise go with the most basic one. Beware of Free, you will get dinged on transactions and e-transfers etc. Know what you will use it for, and anticipate what you will eventually be using it for, 6 mo-12mo down the line.

I have been with BMO BUSINESS account, very happy with it

Silicone Valley Bank. They have an office in Toronto and great services for both early-stage and growth-stage startups.

I have a BMO business account. I find it very limited for 2021. I am not able to send international payments and cannot do anything other than Interact payments to another Canadian bank.

I bank personally with RBC and have my business banking with RBC as well. I've had a great experience

CIBC and RBC offer the most stable connections with accounting software like Xero and Quickbooks.

Am on TD past 5 years no complaints. Personal and Business. Got BLOC, credit cards and chequing there. So it makes transfers and payments super easy across all accounts. In case I need to transfer between them. If you meet the minimum cash requirements then you dont pay the monthtly fees. Only thing is you need to go to the branch to open up everything as they need to verify your identity etc

I use TD - basic CAD and USD business accounts for $5 each pm. No complaints. They pick up the phone really fast, especially u call through the app. I use Amex Plat as CC - $500/yr fee, but you get special deals - had bought mostly for travel - lounge access - certainly didn't mean anything last year. Got 10% off on Dell - paid at least half of it.

Business wise - only 3 real choices RBC, CIBC and TD. If you are only CDN then maybe the others would work but those three work well with accounting packages, international and fintech add-ons.

Natalia Mejia?

Reach out to boastcapital.com/ I saw an email just the other day that they now offer quarterly SR&ED financing.

Jack Bensimon

fundeasly.com/

I’d be happy to chat to help if you think FundThrough can be a fit to help you with your cash flow if you’re growing. DM me or you can email me at [email protected]

Definitely boastcapital.com/ Lloyed Lobo

I can help. Inboxed.

Ben Robertson any of those many friends of yours able to help?

Elizabeth Dobkin might be interested?

Hi Jake, please check DM

Erik Kieser

We help build out effective digital marketing B2B strategies SocialEyes Communications for companies in various verticals. Happy to chat

Sarah Brekelmans I just sent you a DM

Just started working with Matty McComb and super impressed

Gavin Ripe Mohan at Ripe Resolution

Matty McComb for life.

Reach out to Mark MacLeod for startup executive coaching.

I can refer you a bunch of coaches we have on our platform. Here’s one highly recommend to coach executives: www.linkedin.com/in/beth-corcoran-ma-chrl-bb8845

Schmooz if they are looking for education/ learning/ diversity focused agencies

Reach out to Natasha Varma Reddy instagram.com/thenatashavarma

Happy to chat about the B2B Marketing Stack (meetfutureproof.com). You can book into my calendar directly: calendly.com/ali-at-futureproof/nice-to-meet-you We've worked with Vicki at Liveonpurpose.com for the last 2 years developing our staff. Highly recommend if you are looking to bring in a culture of coaching. Here's her profile: www.linkedin.com/in/vicki-thompson-b77b803a/

Wow - thank you all for the great reccos, really appreciate it. I will be passing along this intel to my clients (3-4) that have asked about this, and will also reach out individually. Thank you again!

Check out YEDI

Sarah Brekelmans , just DM you

Maya Gorski Cukierman?

You can send me an email at [email protected] and we can take a look. I manage professional and financial service clients personally.

Hi happy to help here as well! Sending you a DM!

Mandeep Manu Dhillon Mala Gupta

I would love to help. I own an accounting firm and work with startups. I will send you a DM.

check us out at www.futurebalance.ca

Mike Pinkus and Connectcpa LLP

Andrew Seguin At Seguin Financial

Check us out Sprint CPA

Accountor

Irene May

cc: Usha Samuel

Irene May is the best!

Happy to chat! I'm in North York. www.impactaf.co

Hey Eric Dizon, Maybe I can help. You can dm me. More about me -> sindwani.com

Stripe Connect is built for this usecase.

Don’t use Stripe Connect it’s SUPER expensive. Try the team at Payment Rails. Also depending on how your marketplace money movement is structured, if any of the client’s money touches your bank account you’ll need to be registered as an MSB.

Whats the digital marketplace you are doing? What industry?

The trick is you don't want to owe your suppliers money you don't have. Ideally, the funds should go directly from your customer to the supplier. Money in-and-out of your account isn't ideal. If someone were a fraud, canceled the payment, you want the supplier to go after the customer, not you. I believe paypal has 'chain' payments that do this well. A client sends 100, paypal sends 10 to you and 90 to the supplier.

Inder Saini

Andrew Dick

you can get what u want from youtube

I would farm it out to a payroll service like ADP www.adp.ca/

Risepeople from Bc is good one

Give PaymentEvolution a try. Our accounting firm uses it for ourselves n many of our start-up clients.

Wagepoint all the way for easy use and cost

Sergio De Lara - thoughts?

Wali Zia Furqan Khan

Check out Wagepoint or Humi, buy local 🥳

Another vote for Wagepoint!

Another vote for payment evolution. We have tried them all.

Thanks for the information.!!! Happy Friday!!

Payment Evolution They also have a benefits consultant and HR on demand. Buy local!

Wave Payroll

Lawdepot.ca

Not sure where you are based but LawDepot access is free with your Toronto Public Library card too. Might be true of other libraries, that I’m not sure of www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEDB0194&R=EDB0194

Let me know your email address and I'll send you NDA we are using for years.

learn.marsdd.com/article/confidentiality-agreement-or-nda-share-purchase-transaction-sample-templ...

I have seen and had to sign many NDAs because of the work I have done. But are they effective. I get the impression the issue has to be big enough worth going to court for- not something small business really afford. Essentially, the bark (the legal threat) is more powerful than the actual bite.

Furqan Khan Wali Zia Amro Magdy

awecontracts.com?

You're probably not getting any responses because your question is impossible to answer. Like everything, it depends. What is your business? What are your goals for social media campaigns? How are you defining success/failure? Where do your customers hang out? How much $ are you willing to put behind your campaigns? What kind of content are you posting? What's your timeline for determining success or failure? What other channels are you using in tandem with social media? There are a million variables and success or failure will depend a lot on all of those variables and more.

Sounds like a good start up idea...

The Tool Library ? James Prince Lendy?

www.aprio.com does a lot of work with amazon and shopify merchants