BDC Small Business Week has arrived! What a great week. Check out what CYBF has been up to. Great articles and resources this week: Check out tips for entrepreneurs via CTV news by Ryerson professor @SeanWise Protecting your intellectual property when it comes to patents by Bryan Santone Great managers are the key component to [...]

Bryan Santone, H Two Consulting Inc., Toronto, ON In our previous blog post, Elliot Gold (a patent and trademark lawyer and intellectual property (IP) expert), and I provided an overview of trademarks and some initial considerations to protecting your IP. In this article we focus on patents, the patent process, and why patents are important. [...]

Terry Thompson, Surrey, BC, CYBF Mentor, tesh@shaw.ca Managing Corporate Culture article series The best advice that I ever received when researching how to develop great corporate culture was, “It’s simple, just have great managers.” When you think about it this advice makes a lot of sense. The managers, starting with the CEO and other senior [...]

In the search to find some of the best and brightest new startups around the world, Global Entrepreneurship Week today announced the “GEW 50” —a list of the 50 most innovative new companies competing in the Startup Open, a competition that recognizes startups with high-growth potential. These elite ventures will now vie for the grand [...]

Many start-up businesses think that by being so different than the competition they will be successful. There is nothing wrong with having…

BDC Small Business Week™ takes place from October 14 to 20, 2012, so there’s no better time than the present to check out their great article series.