From his base in Truro, N.S., Brad Tousenard has built his IT company Delicious Brains into a global enterprise over seven years with about 10,000 clients in 140 countries and sales increasing each year.
And there are two things about his story that stand out: first, his staff is spread across three countries; and second, he hasn’t taken on a nickel of outside investment.
Tousenard doesn’t like what he calls the “exit-or-bust mentality” that often comes when startups take on venture capital. Too many entrepreneurs, he believes, buy into the notion that they have to aim for a billion-dollar