2006 Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominees Announced Small Business Unplugged

"Forty-nine top entrepreneurs who have demonstrated leadership, drive and innovation have been chosen from an impressive list of nominees as Prairies region finalists in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2006 awards." Reviewing this list is fascinating to see the wide diversity of business types. From a company that specializes in Flax Seed products to a manufacturer of micro-electro-mechanical systems shows that a small business can really come from almost anywhere and [...] Read More


Nafta put the Shata to Canadian Softwood Small Business Unplugged

Via Blogcritics.org Richard Marcus writes a relatively balanced update on the progress of the $5 billion US and Canadian Softwood lumber dispute in his "Canadian Politics: Softwood Lumber, The GST, And A Trip To Washington" is important to Canadian Small Business because many of the contractors and sub-contractors that provide services to this industry are small business owners. He points out that the US is only returning 80% of the $5 [...] Read More


Great Observations from 14 Year Veteran Entrepreneur Small Business Unplugged

There are numerous lists all over the Internet. Some are strange and silly, but this post by Steve Pavlina is a good one, "10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed." What I like is how he has told his own story. Here are a few excerpts from his lengthy but worthy post - make sure you visit especially if you plan on starting a business soon. Having been a [...] Read More


Blame Canada! DoD Says to Beware Canadian Coins The Wireless Weblog

According to the AP's Ted Bridis, who describes this as being "high on the creepiness scale," the U.S. Department of Defense has warned its contractors to be wary of Canadian coins, suggesting that some coins have been modified with embedded RFID tags in order to track people. "The government said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between [...] Read More


Entrepreneur interviews on Energybyte BootStrapMe

Photo: Jane M. Sawyer, morgueFile And still on the subject of Romanian entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu, I received an e-mail recently about a new launch which he hopes will be sort of a "reality show for entrepreneurs". No, there are no audio or video podcasts yet, but Cristian seems well on his way with his first installment of Entrepreneur Interviews, part of a growing fleet of websites including his Small Business Entrepreneur blog [...] Read More