It must happen to every CEO at some time or other. And when it happened to me this summer, I discovered how largely unprepared I was for it. In fact, it was hard to discern any forward progress at all. I found that whatever good might happen as a result of my efforts wasn't about to happen very quickly. In business, as in life, appearances can sometimes mask golden opportunities.
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As one of the few Canadian women in the venture capital industry, and to my knowledge the only female founder of a venture capital firm in Canada, I have literally travelled the world many times over. I am as equally committed to providing my wife and children with my time and attention as I am to leading my business to achieve aggressive and explosive growth. Ron Foxcroft Defensive Strategy Patent and trademark protection is a whole new game for a retired referee with a winning product. Summer in Indianapolis can be extremely hot, but it wasn't the temperature that had me on edge as I walked across the floor of the gymnasium to referee a Pan-American basketball game. I was clutching one of only two operating prototypes of my new Fox 40 pea-less whistle.