OcTOBER 2015 BCBusiness 45 BcBusiNEss.ca BcBusiNEss.ca
'm sitting at my desk this
morning, enjoying an enor-
mous espresso and wonder-
ing why there are no yellow
sticky notes left, when it hits
me: I have to go buy those
sticky notes myself.
Over the past decade I
built a very successful real
estate development market-
ing company, B/A Marketing
Buildings, which at one point
employed more than 30
people and had two of'ices
in Vancouver. I often found
myself shuttling between the
two boardrooms for meet-
ings, if I wasn't travelling the
world for face-to-face encoun-
ters with clients. But after 10
years, I started looking for
new challenges.
In January of this year, I
sold B/A and bought a new
condo that had space for a
home of'ice; I moved some
walls, laid down wide-plank
bleached-oak f loors and
hung the art. Now, as founder
and sole employee of David
Allison Inc., I work with
companies around the world
to make their brand more
How to ... stop worrying and love the solo life
Lessons from a corporate warrior who's rediscovering his entrepreneurial roots by David Allison
