1. Interest Rates: What are your thoughts on the path of interest rates in 2022?
2. Recession: Are we going into a recession?
3. Real Estate: What’s happening with Real Estate Prices in Toronto?

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· In your opinion what’s the number one obstacle preventing someone from taking a leap or risk?

· How to deal with doubters?

· How do you mitigate risks?

· How do you know that what you're working on isn't working?

1. How do you think about pricing for services in your business?
2. Do you use a mathematical pricing approach?
3. Do you use a “value-based pricing” or “cost plus” pricing?
4. Do you use hourly pricing or success-based pricing?

Treadstone Law: https://www.treadstonelaw.ca/

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1. Is buying a business risky?
2. What prevents you from buying a business today?
3. Are acquisitions usually successful?
4. Talk to me about your experience buying a business

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1. Which is easier to start: A Service business or a Product business?

2. Which one has more risk: A Service business or a Product business?

3. Which one is easier to scale: A Service business or a Product business?

4. Which one is more predictable: A Service business or a Product business?

5. What is a productized service? Do you offer any of these?

Treadstone Law: https://www.treadstonelaw.ca/

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1. Inflation: Are we in a period where there will be high inflation for the next few years?

2. Interest Rates: What are your thoughts on the path of interest rates in 2022?

3. Recession: Are we going into a recession?

4. Real Estate: What’s the latest on Real Estate Prices in Toronto?

1. · Why is hiring so important?
2. · How do you hire well?
3. · What’s the most important thing you look for when you’re hiring someone?
4. · How can you reduce risk when you’re hiring someone?
5. · How do you correct a hiring mistake?

Treadstone Law: https://www.treadstonelaw.ca/

Vertical CPA: https://www.verticalcpa.ca/

· The fed hikes rates yesterday, what are your thoughts?

· Will the bank of Canada hike rates?

· What will be the impact of the war on Ukraine?

· What’s the latest on Real Estate Prices in Toronto?

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· How much is an hour of your time worth to you?

· As a business owner, do you do tasks that are below your hourly rate?

· How do you decide what to outsource or keep in-house?

· Is an hourly rate the best way to value your time?

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Vertical CPA: https://www.verticalcpa.ca/

Today on The 5AM Grind, we’re delighted to bring you a guest interview with Huda Idrees.

Huda is the CEO and Founder of Dot Health – A real-time personal health platform that is empowering Canadians to request, access, and manage their own health information

Before founding DotHealth, Huda worked at Wattpad and Wealthsimple. Two of some of the best know startups in Toronto

Huda has helped advise the Canadian Federal and Provincial Health Ministries on strategy, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Ontario MD, and the Sinai Health System.

She has also won numerous awards including: YWCA Toronto's Young Woman of Distinction and Bay Street Bull's 30x30.

We hope you enjoy our interview with Huda!

Haris and Ali discuss their outlook for 2022 and cover the following topics:

• Real Estate Prices
• Interest Rates
• Inflation
• Crypto
• The Stock Market
• Another COVID Variant

• Your thoughts on the new variant?
• Should governments lockdown? Do you think people will comply this time around?
• Should the government pump more COVID stimulus?
• How does COVID end?

· Why is being on social media in 2021 important?

· How do you use social media to amplify your brand?

· Should you try to be everywhere or only in some places?

· What are some of the downsides of being on social media?

· Why is it important to stop Micromanaging?

· When do you know that you should stop Micromanaging your organization?

· How do you delegate?

· How do you deal with client service issues when you stop Micromanaging?

· Is the current inflation only transitory?

· What will be the repercussions of higher inflation?

· What is happening to the Supply Chain?

· What does this mean for the economy?

· Is being a positive person important?

· Are entrepreneurs naturally positive people?

· What are some of the downsides of being a positive person?

· If you’re not a positive person, what are you?

· How do you stay positive?

Today on The 5AM Grind, we’re delighted to bring you our guest interview with Eva Lau.

Eva is the founding Partner of Two Small Fish Ventures - A venture firm that invests in early-stage transformative tech companies with strong network effects.

Before founding Two Small Fish Ventures, Eva was Wattpad’s Head of Community and Content. She helped scale Wattpad from its infancy to become one of the largest online communities with tens of millions of monthly users around the world. In 2021, Wattpad was sold for $800 million.

Eva is involved in many incubators and accelerators across Canada such as

Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of Management, Ryerson’s DMZ, University of Waterloo’s Velocity, and Techstars.

We hope you enjoy our interview with Eva!

· Why is marketing important?

· Do investments in marketing bring business right away?

· Is marketing the same as brand building?

· Why do so many businesses ignore investing in marketing?

· Is Greed Good?

· What’s the difference between AMBITION and GREED?

· Are billionaires greedy?

· How do you stop yourself from being greedy?

· What does Corporate Culture mean?

· When does Corporate Culture become important?

· Does Corporate Culture change?

· Which organization do you think has a great Corporate Culture?