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• Entrepreneurial Self-Assessment

  This is a questionnaire to help better measure your entrepreneurial potential.

• Feasibility Checklist for Starting a Small Business

  This fact sheet is a checklist for the owner-manager of a small business enterprise or for one contemplating going into business for the first time.

• Points to Consider When Starting Your Own Business

  This fact sheet provides general information and points to consider when starting your own business.

• Checklists for Going into Business

  This fact sheet offers some questions to help you think through what you need to know and do before you go into business.

• Can You Make Money with Your Idea or Invention

  This fact sheet, aimed at idea people, inventors, and innovative owner-managers of small companies, describes the tests every idea must pass before it makes money.

• Home-Based Business

  This fact sheet will give you some idea of the types of businesses which can be operated from the home and will provide some tips on start-up, pros and cons, and available resources.

• Problems in Managing a Family-Owned Business

  This fact sheet discusses problems in managing a family-owned business from the viewpoint of the family member who is the company's manager.

• Checklists for Franchisees

  This fact sheet offers a checklist of questions to assist you in making a decision about acquiring a franchise.

• Questions to Ask Before You Sign a Lease

  This fact sheet lists ten points to help those unfamiliar with commercial leases.

• The Entrepreneur and the Business Idea

  This introductory book includes both a self-assessment and a business opportunity assessment tool, and advocates a "damage control approach" to getting into business.

• 1101 Businesses You Can Start from Home

  Written for the growing number of Canadians who are choosing to run their businesses from home - whether on a full-time or a part-time basis.

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