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Techopia Live: When should an entrepreneur quit their day job and go all-in on their startup?

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It costs thousands of dollars for lenders to process a mortgage application.

It’s a time-consuming and manual process to validate a borrower’s income, property valuation and other information.

Ottawa entrepreneur Chris Grimes saw these shortcomings first hand while working in the mortgage industry – and knew there had to be a better way.

But when is it time to take a great idea and turn it into a business? And at what point does one leave the stability of a day job and go all-in on a new venture?

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Techopia Live explores these questions with FundMore.ai. To hear the full conversation, watch the video above.

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