I'm at a conference in the Times Center on 41st street at 8th Avenue in NYC. It's called The 99% Conference. (The title is a riff on the famous Thomas Edison quote, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.")

My cover story in the current issue of Canadian Business magazine—our special annual Innovation Issue—looks at how entrepeneurs in this country are trying to cope with a venture capital industry in crisis. One tactic is to look to the U.S., where VCs are still flush with money and looking for ...

Here's a refreshingly honest post from FreshBook's Mike McDerment about all the mistakes he's almost made with his Software-as-a-Service business. Read between the lines and you'll glimpse the pressures faced by innovative entrepreneurs.