Venture Capital: Talent Gaps and Sales

venture capital: One big implication of this is that we have only a small pool of experienced managers who can mentor the next cohort of startups, especially leaders who have grown companies to $100-million from $10-million, according to Globe and Mail. It not technological talent they lack. How bad is it In 2014-15, Canada had no growth in sales or mergers of companies funded by venture capital. As a Lazaridis Institute study revealed last year, the talent gaps are in sales, marketing and product management – the very skills needed to take a small company with a great idea to where it can really experience fast growth – beyond Canada small domestic market and into the global arena. Fully 95 per cent of our $450-million in sales this year are exported to over 100 countries. The company I've led for 16 years, Christie Digital Systems Canada Inc., of Kitchener, has more than 700 employees and is the headquarters for Christie global R&D operations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.