The first week of the New Year always brings a lot of excitement to us here at CanadaStartups.org as we love sharing the small business success we see.
A lot of New Year resolutions are being made and so far kept; so let’s review what we and our members have accomplished this week:
Requests for Small Business Help: 673
New …Read Full Article
As Canadians we are all given the opportunity to succeed in life; one way being your own boss and a small business owner. The Canadian economy is a prosperous one allowing entrepreneurs with support from the government in the form of government funding. Today, we will be sharing our latest interview with one individual who was successful at becoming a government …Read Full Article
It’s always difficult starring a small business, spending all of your free time making it work to find out that at the end of the year or even sooner for some business owners that the business is simply not working and is a failure.
Most small businesses in Canada fail within the first year due to a number of reasons, and …Read Full Article
When starting a small business in Canada, one of the first steps of getting started with your small business is to ensure that you have enough capital to be able to do so. Capital, financing, funding, money…all the same, but what is the best way of getting your small business funded?
In this article we are going to compare the …Read Full Article
In the early stages of a small business startup it’s critical to obtain the funding necessary to take your small business through the key startup stages and eventuality through to the launch. This article will explain the process of government funding and what the right way is to apply for government funding.
While there are nearly a thousand government funding programs, …Read Full Article
If you are tuning in for for the very first time this year, Happy New Year! You are most likely here like everyone else, wanting to start a small business in 2018. So let’s get started with the top 5 ways to start your small business in 2018.
If you’ve been following our blogs here at CanadaStartups, you know that we …Read Full Article
Wanting to be your own boss and to start your small business is pretty much every Canadian’s dream, at one point in their lifetime. But how many people actually go through the steps to get started and to launch their startup is another story.
Most people are “dreamers”, meaning they are the people who will forever keep talking about starting a …Read Full Article
If you follow CanadaStartups on Twitter @Canada_Startups, you probably know about this weeks Q&A session. We had a lot of interesting questions come to use from our followers and onlookers.
One question that seemed to be reoccurring is “how do I get free government funding for my small business?”
Before we get into that, let’s break that question up into …Read Full Article
Government Grants vs Government Loans?
That is a question that often comes up from many small business owners and fresh new faces here at CanadaStartups.org, so what is actually better for you?
Let me first give you a quick overview of what each one is:
Government Grants: Often government grants, also known as subsidies, bursaries or contributions are simply money …Read Full Article
Government funding, in other words “money” for your small business if successful at obtaining can be used for so many things.
If you get a government grant or loan, or tax break or a subsidy you can use it for various purposes. These purposes include but are not limited to:
Starting up a small business
Expanding your existing small …Read Full Article