Yes.
Ever? Yes.
WikiFranchise.org: since Feb 2009.
Several thousand, I’d imagine.
How? The moral hazard-riddled, Canada Small Business Financing Program.
Details:
The Acting Speaker (Mr. Jim Wilson): Pursuant to standing order 98, the honourable member has 12 minutes for her presentation.
HELENA JACZEK, MPP
Ms. Helena Jaczek: At the outset I would like to make sure that everyone knows that this bill, Bill 102, An Act to amend the Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure), 2000, is co-sponsored by my colleague from Parkdale–High Park and my colleague from Parry Sound–Muskoka. I think that this type of collaboration is something our constituents expect of us. We know that in our ridings many people did not actually vote for us or our party and it is our duty to represent them in this House wherever we can. It has been certainly an interesting and very satisfying experience to work with my two colleagues on this particular bill.
I’d also like to recognize in the west members’ gallery some supporters of the bill: Les Stewart, the founder of the Canadian Alliance of Franchise Operators, and Detective Fred Kerr, the corporate fraud manager for York Regional Police’s major fraud unit.
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The Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Toronto, Canada
September 23, 2010
There was no map or rule book in testing the limits of the industry.
By nature, these were all unreasonable actions from the conventional viewpoint.
To me, they were just taking one step ahead of the other.
Not bad.
[At Play]
Certainly not from salespeople, captured academics or industry talking heads.
Learn from those reporting back from their own experiences via published media articles. They’re captivating war stories in many “veterans” perspectives.
Read WikiFranchise.org for the closest-to reality check you’ll get.
At least so far.
Learn modern commercial warfare tactics from specific executives, trademark systems and business risks.
…WikiFranchise.org is to franchising.
Which is related to a custom franchise system-specific wiki.
Now we’re talking.
Once you understand the terms, most jokes can be understood by almost anyone.
That is what WikiFranchise.org does: with a little bit of your work, it lets you in on the joke.
Asymptote: In analytic geometry, an asymptote of a curve is a line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero as they tend to infinity. Some sources include the requirement that the curve may not cross the line infinitely often, but this is unusual for modern authors.
A simple example:
I saw the power of manually adding up franchisee investor case studies in 1999.
McLuhan explained the explosive nature of doing that digitally (electrically).
When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition to structure the experience. The work of the artist is to find patterns.
In a sense, WikiFranchise.org is creative: a masterpiece rooted in thousands of peoples’ lives/experiences.