Resources for Canadian Small Business
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Financing:Financing your business
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BDC
Connex
Organization: Business Development Bank of Canada
"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. -
Canadian Venture Capital
Association
Organization: Canadian Venture Capital Association
Although areas of the site seem to be rarely updated, it should prove useful for anyone interested in Canadian sources of venture capital. The Statistics section provides an overview of the industry, the dollars involved and what kinds of firms are attracting investors. Contact information for member firms is also available. -
Going Public
Organization: KPMG Canada
A site for those considering taking their company public. Find advice on setting a price for your stock, designing a prospectus, or making the decision to go public in the first place. Cotains a useful glossary of terms. -
Small Business Loans Administration
Organization: Strategies (Industry Canada)
Land loans, premises loans, equipment loans -- here's everything you ever wanted to know about the Business Improvement Loans available to you through Ottawa's Small Business Loans Act. The site explains how the SBLA makes this sort of financing accessible and affordable. -
Sources of Venture Capital Financing
Organization: Industry Canada
The federal government's Strategies mega site has done it again! This page offers a terrific assortment of links to all sorts of venture capital suppliers, from small sect oral investors to Roy Nat Inc.
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Banking
Organization: Canadian Western Bank
Welcome to Canadian Western Bank -- 'the only Schedule 1 chartered bank with its headquarters and principal operations within Western Canada'. Although this website may not start any cyber stampedes, it offers a clear, uncluttered breakdown of CWB's business accounts and services, plus their commercial lending programs -- with special emphasis on Industrial, Energy, and Real Estate lending. And you can locate every CWB branch from Winnipeg to Nanaimo. - Business
Services
Organization: Canada Trust
A straightforward accounting of Canada Trust's products and services for its business customers. Includes an online calculator to determine which fee package best suits your day-to-day business banking needs, how much you should budget for account service charges, and how to keep those charges to a minimum. - Canadian
Bankers Association
Organization: Canadian Bankers Association
Talk about bank mergers: here’s where all the major players pool their resources in one, single cyberbranch. Check out their seminars, peruse their publications, study their surveys, or just compare bank notes. - Small
Business Entrepreneur Resource Centre
Organization: Scotiabank
Grouped under four main headings, Scotiabank blends links into its own products and services with general entrepreneurial advice and earnest motivational essays. Read about Planning & Starting Your Business ('It's and incredible feeling!'), Expanding Your Business ('dazzle new customers with an online store'), Managing Business Challenges ('ain't no mountain high enough to stand in the way of your success'), and Your Business Rewards ('Get those well-earned assets working for you'). - Small
Business Services
Organization: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Here to serve your business is a special section of the CIBC’s website. You’ll find a cyber vault of information on the bank’s own offerings, from leasing business equipment to establishing a business online -- nestled between articles on related topics and links to helpful sites, from human-resource practices to international economic forecasts.
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