Chapter one of Start-up and Growth Companies in Canada: a Guide to Legal and Business Practice 2nd ed. (Lexis/Nexis Butterworths, 2013). The chapter describes the life-cycle of growth companies in Canada, as well as empirical research on how they tend to develop over time. It introduces certain...

Growth companies contribute disproportionately to Canada’s job creation, economic development and innovation. Most growth companies can match neither the salaries nor the security of more established competitors for executive talent. This makes their only advantage — the growth prospects of...