BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
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Profit Magazine Online
http://www.profitguide.com |
Learn what they don't teach you in business school. News and success stories for entrepreneurs that contain inspiration, information and solutions to your business problems. Special departments are focused on exporting, human resources and growing your business. |
Inc.com
www.inc.com |
Inc magazine online -Info on where to start and grow your business. Inc and Inc Technology are the premiere U.S. publications for entrepreneurship. Providing hands-on advice, case studies, and big-picture overviews on the state of small business in the U.S. |
The CEO Refresher brain food for business
http://www.refresher.com/ceo.html |
Creative leadership, competitive strategy, leading change, performance improvement, corporate boards, executive performance and more...CEO links |
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The Canadian Technology Network (CTN)
http://ctn.nrc.ca/ |
If you run a small or medium-sized technology related business in Canada, the CTN can give you access to a wide range of technology and related business assistance through a cross-country network of advisors. |
The Canadian Innovation Centre
http://www.innovationcentre.ca/ |
The Canadian Innovation Centre (CIC) is Canada's leading organization dedicated to assisting inventors and innovative companies. Our range of services includes invention evaluation, technology due diligence, market research, and education programs. |
Canada - Ontario Business Service Centre (COBSC) http://www.cbsc.org/ontario/
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Provides information on business-related programs, services and selected regulations from the governments of Canada and Ontario, and from the partners of the Canada-Ontario Business Call Centre (COBCC). Also includes a fax-back information system. |
Ontario Challenge Fund
http://www.ontariochallengefund.com/
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The Ont. Research and Development Challenge Fund is designed to promote research excellence in the province by increasing the R&D capacity of Ontario universities and other research institutions through private and public sector partnerships. |
Export Development Corporation
http://www.edc.ca |
Helps Canadian business succeed in the global marketplace. Provides a wide range of risk management services, including insurance and financing, to Canadian exporters and their customers around the world. |
| Canadian Trade Commissioner Service http://www.infoexport.gc.ca |
Provides free access to hundreds of sectoral market studies and country-specific reports prepared by their Market Research Centre and by their offices abroad. These reports are intended to help you, Canadian companies, identity foreign business opportunities and learn more about your target market. |
Strategis - Industry Canada
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/ |
Canada's Business Information Site. Our network information resources includes trade commissioners in Canadian Embassies around the world, business experts in major organizations and researches in international think tanks.
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Strategis - High Performance Manufacturing
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/at01177e.html |
This guide is designed to provide a relevant and up-to-date source of information to assist Canadian manufacturers in finding the tools, people and resources they need to improve their manufacturing performance. |
| CANADIAN BUSINESS NEWS |
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Small Business Quarterly
Organization:Strategis (Industry Canada) |
The Small Business Quarterly is a free online report, offering an overview of small biz statistics and trends such as Job Creation, Business Profitability, Business Conditions, Business Loans, and Self-Employment. Past issues (starting) from spring 1996) are just a click away. From the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Office of Industry Canada. |
NRC Regional Innovation Centre
http://www.spinoffcentre.com/ |
The goal of the National Research Council of Canada is to help create an innovative, knowledge-based economy that will keep Canada at the international forefront. As the nation looks toward the future, NRC is focussing its programs on those areas of Canada's economy that will benefit most from scientific and technological innovation. |
Canadian Federation of Independent Business Organization:CFIB
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The CFIB is a national business lobbying group. Its website lets you access its position on major business, economic and tax issues of the day. You can also hear the latest scoop from CFIB president Catherine Swift's daily radio show. Its "media roundup" feature provides a useful collection of the latest small-biz news from the nation's newspapers. |
CCN NewsNet
Organization:Canadian Corporate News
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News you can use. Search for press releases from a company or industry, or sign up for a personal service: the news will be delivered to you automatically, every time the organizations you've selected issue a release through Canadian Corporate News. Bonus: call up the latest quotes, charts, and news from stock exchanges around the world. |
Report on Business & R.O.B. Magazine
Organization:The Globe and Mail, Toronto
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Breaking business news, feature articles, regular columns, stock quotes, and more. Includes a search feature to look up any story appearing in the Globe's online edition in the past seven days. The related "robmagazine.com" site contains most of the content from the current issue of Report on Business Magazine. |
| E-BUSINESS/E-COMMERCE |
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eDirections
Organization:eMarketer
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A great place to turn for advice on developing a useful Web presence. Developers can learn as much from this site's straightforward design as from its articles. |
The Electronic Commerce Guide
Organization:Mecklermedia Corp.
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A great site for getting the scoop on e-commerce. Interviews with experts, a library of articles and essays and links to additional information. |
Net Gain -- Doing Business on the Internet
Organization:Strategis (Industry Canada)
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This information collection will help you understand the online opportunities for your business. Selecting an ISP, website design, mailing lists, online privacy, intranets, extranets -- your competitors are quickly adapting to the information age, and so should you. This Internet business primer offers a good road map. |
| FINANCING/BANKING |
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BDC Connex
Organization:Business Development Bank of Canada
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"Canada's Small Business Bank" offers financial products and consulting services for all kinds of businesses, with particular emphasis on knowledge and export-based industries. This site offers tips on the care and feeding of a business; financing and mentoring programs; and an archive of news and stories from BDC publications, including "PROFIT$", its free, quarterly newsletter. |
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