This week’s issue of Business in Vancouver provides another insider peek into B.C.’s diverse business community with everything from concerns over a brain drain in the tech sector, to significant declines in the region’s bank robberies.
Danny Robinson, founder of Bootup Labs comments on the challenge of keeping tech talent in Canada. He suggests nearly 300,000 Canadians have been lured south of the border to Silicon Valley alone, and there seems to be no defense against a perpetual brain drain to the U.S.
A story on Vancouver’s Yaletown district explores the trend in the beauty business of local entrepreneurs countering the one-stop-shop business model and providing exceptional quality of service to build the business.
On the finance front, BIV provides an update on the success by the region’s police forces to curb the number of bank robberies in Metro Vancouver.