Sacha Chua - tag - experience https://sachachua.com/blog/tag/experience/feed/index.xml Emacs, sketches, and life Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:50:07 GMT en-US daily 1 11ty Business experience report: Passing my first annual resolutions https://sachachua.com/blog/2013/02/business-experience-report-passing-my-first-annual-resolutions/ Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:00:00 GMT business https://sachachua.com/blog/?p=24487 Because I incorporated my company instead of being a sole proprietor, I need to file annual returns, update my minute book, and have either a shareholder’s meeting or pass resolutions. Since it didn’t make sense to have a meeting by myself, I combined this template for shareholders’ resolutions and sample minutes of a shareholders’ meeting to come up with the resolutions below. (Not legal advice; please go talk to a lawyer if you need one.)

SHAREHOLDERS RESOLUTION OF _________

The undersigned, being all the shareholders of _________, hereby sign the following annual resolutions.

RESOLVED THAT:

1. These resolutions are in place of an annual meeting of shareholders of the company.

2. The financial statements of the company for the fiscal year ended __Date__, are received.

3. __Name__ continues as the director of the company.

4. No auditor be appointed for the current fiscal year of the company.

5. All by-laws, resolutions, contracts, acts and proceedings of the board of directors, shareholders and officers of the Corporation enacted, passed, made, done or taken since __date__ as the same are set forth or referred to in the minutes of the Corporation or in the financial statements submitted to the shareholders of the Corporation on this date are hereby approved, ratified, sanctioned and confirmed. The acts of the Board of Directors since the last annual meeting of shareholders are approved and ratified.

DATED: ___Date___

__________________________________________

__Name__

This week, I’ll file the federal annual return. Another milestone! Maybe next year I’ll learn how to pass resolutions for dividends, or make myself a proper employee of the company so that I can set up a private health services plan.

You can e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

]]> Sketchnotes: ENT101: Lived It Lecture – Bruce Poon Tip (G Adventures) on Social Enterprise https://sachachua.com/blog/2012/10/sketchnotes-ent101-lived-it-lecture-bruce-poon-tip-g-adventures-on-social-enterprise/ Thu, 04 Oct 2012 01:53:43 GMT business entrepreneurship sketchnotes https://sachachua.com/blog/?p=23787 Click on the image for a larger version of sketchnotes. This talk is part of the free MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 series (webcast and in-person session every Wednesday!)

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20121003 Entrepreneurship 101 - Lived It Lecture - Bruce Poon Tip - G-Adventures

Missed the first session? Check out my sketchnotes for Finding and Validating Your Idea (Keri Damen).

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MARS ENTREPRENEURSHIP 101: LIVED IT LECTURE
BRUCE POON TIP. G ADVENTURES
1990 Backpacking myself…
Envision the world before
Google
Email
Fax
People had to go to travel agents
I realized…
Canadians only have ~2 weeks holiday.
Looking for adventure companies in German phone books..
How do you turn tourism into something exportable?
GAP
Cruise
backpack
all these people trapped in mainstream holidays…
opportunity !
Now –> I’m surprised by the number of people who say
I want to go to Antarctica this Thursday…
$100 spent
Only $5 actually stays in a developing country’s economy.
–> UNEP 2008
Ex: public beahces in Jamaica
Flashback
I just got my fax machine..
… and then I realized they needed to have a fax machine too!
Business Model
Happiness
Building a buisness model around this.

1993
Europeans have way more holidays..
The Australians work between holidays..
Export the business! Now.
need a brand
(sustainable)
HAPPINESS
(at work)
– perceived progress
– freedom
– being part of something
– larger than yourself
– perceived control –> make it easy for people to leave
– connectedness
Netflix – 14 pages of core values!
More advice from Q&A: boutique, niche
Building iconic brands
Movements ex: Dove – cheap –> premium
Social
Enterprise
a whole new style of business
Oct 3, 2012
Example: Peru
Weaving
youth going into tourism industry
time
Women’s weaving co-op
– help people
– differentiated our trips
Solving a business problem with sustainale salutions
Strategy 1: Big company: Corruption
Strategy 2: Some good, some bad
Strategy 3: Focusing on training consistency
My leadership challenge:
1500 people, most of whom I’ll never meet, want them to be happy and deliver
Traveller
Taking what we are as a business and turning it into a movement.
Transcending your product
Engaging your customers –> why, stories
Challenging customers
What will you do today for tomorrow?
Engage customers for a higher purpose–> beyond travel
Doesn’t have to cost you anything
Partnership, projects
Q: How do you do everything?
A: Great people
Q: Pivot?
A: The world is changing so much ~every 5 years
Q: Biggest mistakes?
A: Trying too hard to find diamonds in the rough while bootstrapping
sometimes not best for business

You can e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

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