Support and Education

Small Business Start-up Links:

When starting a small business it’s always nice to find different leads and links to information that can assist you in your day-to-day operations. Here you will find a variety of those different links and organization that can help.

Click on any of the following title or details:

• Spin Off Centre
  This Web site is a program designed to assist technology spin-off and start-up companies. The goal of this site is to provide a one-stop solution for entrepreneurs planning to establish their own technology companies.
• Entrepreneurship Development
  ENTERWeb is an annotated meta-index and information clearinghouse on enterprise development, business, finance, international trade and the economy in this new age of cyberspace and globalization.
• Be Your Own Boss.org
  This website is your entryway into the world of self-employment.
• Self-Employment Service
  Starting a Business? We can help!
• Do You Want To Be Your Own Boss?
  Are you the kind of person who likes to be independent? Do you want to escape the frustrations of working for someone else? Have you ever dreamed about putting your skills and knowledge to work in creating your own business?
• Getting Started in A Small Business
  It's an exciting time to start a new business in Canada. As our economy evolves and society changes, new markets and opportunities open up every day. At the same time, there has never been so many resources to help get your business off the ground.
• Canadian Chamber of Commerce
  The Voice of Canadian Business
• Canada Business Directory
  To provide a directory of Canadian links that are all top level domains and categorized by province.
• Canadian Franchise Association
  You are likely considering purchasing a franchise business. Maybe you are just testing the water or trying to learn more about the franchise industry.
• Retail Council Of Canada
  We speak for an industry that touches the daily lives of Canadians in every corner of the country - by providing jobs; consumer value; world-class product selection; and the colour, sizzle and entertainment of the marketplace.
• Resolving Problems With Your Bank
  Although banks strive to provide error-free service, millions of transactions are conducted every day and mistakes do sometimes happen.
• Commerence.net
  CommerceNet is a nonprofit consortium of business, government, technology, and academic leaders. We bring companies together to jointly develop and implement new eCommerce technologies and business practices worldwide.
• Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants
  The CICA, together with the provincial and territorial institutes of chartered accountants, represents a membership of 68,000 professional accountants and 8,200 students. The CICA conducts research into current business issues and sets accounting and auditing standards for business, not-for-profit organizations and government.
• Canadian Federation of Independent Business
  The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has been giving small firms a big voice in the public arena. If you own and operate your own business and are looking for ways to help it prosper, then CFIB can be of service.
• Business Town
  Business Search Engine
• Enterprise Toronto
  Enterprise Toronto is an innovative public and private sector alliance created to provide one-stop sourcing of services and programs tailored to meet the needs of the City's Entrepreneurs and small businesses.
• Aboriginal Business Canada
  Aboriginal Business Canada is an Industry Canada program, which promotes the growth of commerce as one means towards economic self-sufficiency for all Aboriginal people.
• SEDI Programs
  SEDI is comprised of staff and volunteers working in a charitable, non-profit context to promote self-employment and savings as viable roads to self-sufficiency for poor, unemployed and underemployed Canadians.
• Small Business Centre
  To contribute to the economic development of our community by stimulating, promoting and supporting the entrepreneurial spirit, start-up and early growth of small business.
• Sprint Canada Small Business Toolkit
  Information about small business services from Sprint Canada
• Canadian Federation of Independent Business
  The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has been giving small firms a big voice in the public arena. If you own and operate your own business and are looking for ways to help it prosper, then CFIB can be of service.
• Instant Reflex Small Business Centre
  A search engine for business information
• Small Business Canada Magazine
  At Small Business Canada Magazine we wish to acknowledge those organizations taking an interest in small business and having prepared valuable resource Web sites.
• Minding Your Own Business
  Minding Your Own Business is designed to help you decide if running a business is a realistic career choice for you. This booklet includes information on the right qualities and skills needed to run a business, as well as advice on different approaches to starting a business and writing a business plan. Information on different business structures is also provided.
• Your Office
  The on-line magazine for Canada’s small business Community
• Microsoft Start-up Centre
  Small Business Solutions
• Soho Business Group
  SOHO Business Group is a national marketing company focused on developing unique programs to support the growth and success of business.
• Source Can
  Welcome to Source CAN, Canada's national e-marketplace. Source CAN is a single, harmonized business portal, which provides your organization with business opportunities and the tools needed to conduct business on the web.
• The Profit Clinic
  The Small Business Help Centre
• Canada One
  Canada One's niche is its focus on Canadian business. It's uniqueness is that this site is not a re-invention of a traditional publication online, but rather was built from the ground up based on the actual needs and interests of today's Internet citizens.
  

For Self-Employment or business related courses offered through colleges, universities and other schools go to Training and Education's Where it's at section. Search under Entrepreneur Small business.