Resources and Events
Over the course of the competition, Enterprize Canada will offer a variety of different resources to assist competing teams in developing the skills necessary to produce quality business plans and presentations.
Events
Business Plan Competition Info Sessions
Learn more about how you can participate in Canada’s most prominent student-run business plan competition! Have your questions answered by the Enterprize Competition Portfolio as they provide a short presentation on the details of this year’s competition. Topics include: finding resources on how to write a business plan, how to register, and much more. Open to all faculties. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Sandra Long, Business Plan Officer, at sandra.long@enterprizecanada.org.
Date: November 4th, 2009
Time: 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Neville Scarfe Building, Room 1021
Date: November 5th, 2009
Time: 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Neville Scarfe Building, Room 1022
Enterprize Live: Starting up Your New Venture
An interactive Q&A that will be streamed live to students, professors, entrepreneurs, and business professionals across Canada on October 24, 2009 at 1:00pm PST. Held in partnership with TechVibes, a technology blog community with over 50,000 members in Canada and the United States, the webcast will feature three panelists, with specializations in serial entrepreneurship, web technology, and venture capital, fielding and discussing 30 second video questions about about all aspects of starting up a new venture from the audience. Panelists currently include Harley Finkelstein (Serial Entrepreneur) and Aydin Mirzaee (Co-Founder and CEO, Chide.it).
Click here for full event details.
Date: November 4th and 5th, 2009
Time: 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online at live.enterprizecanada.org
Online Resources
Enterprize Business Plan Guide
Content provided by Enterprize Canada.
Enterprize Business Plan General Overview
Content acquired with permission from Mike Volker.
Business Plan Writing
Bplans.com
Bplans.com website provides you with dozens of free, sample business plans and the Business Plan Pro software which helps students in writing their business plans.
How to Research a Business Plan
This document from BC Stats’ web site shows you what should be included in a plan, where to find the information, and how to properly interpret it.
iRise
Offers a tool for rapid simulation and prototyping of software products for teams working on product ideas, which involve a software application that require a graphical user interface.
Interactive Business Partner
The Interactive Business Planner (IBP) assists you with creating formal business plan. You can develop all sections of a business plan, including complete financials. The IBP also provides you with examples of completed business plans.
Online Business Advisor
The Online Business Advisor provides you with an abundance of excellent articles on small business management, marketing, and training.
Planning Your Business
Small Business Handbook offers a large series of downloadable business tools. The series includes financial spreadsheet templates, sample letters, contracts, forms, and policies.
Centre for Business Planning
In depth series of articles to assist you with all sections of your plan.
Writing an Effective Business Plan, OCRI Entrepreneurship Centre
Provides detailed instructions on writing a winning business plan.
Derby Management
A guide to developing plans, with do’s and don’ts.
Business Plan Guide, Business Service Centre, Government of Ontario
Sample Business Plans
Bplans.com
Bplans.com website provides you with dozens of free, sample business plans.
Entrepreneur.com
Browse through more than 50 sample business plans to get inspiration for your own plan.
Answers.com
Actual business plan that have been successfully used by a live business owners.
Centre for Business Planning
This we site offers dozens of sample plans and a very in depth series of articles to assist you with all sections of your plan.
Scotia Bank Sample Business Plans
Royal Bank of Canada Sample Business Plans
Market Research
Canadian Company Capabilities
Use Canadian Company Capabilities to find comprehensive contact information, sales, SIC code, year established, export information, company profile, and more.
Performance Plus
With Small Business Profiles, you can estimate expenses for hundreds of different kinds businesses. The data provide performance benchmarks for the financial planning of start-up and established small and medium sized businesses.
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada publishes a wide variety of information on economic and social condition in Canada.
Strategis
Strategis is probably the most comprehensive source of Canadian market and business information. There are several hundred thousand documents available.
Edgar
Financial reports and information on public companies.
Hoovers
Research on public/private companies.
Search Systems
Links to all sorts of public databases.
Small Business BC Market Research
Small Business BC Resource Center offers helpful business service officers, international directories, customized reports, workshops and seminars, a business library, and business reports.
BC Stats
BC Stats is the central statistical agency of the Province of British Columbia. They have the provincial government’s largest concentration of statistical products, services and expertise.
Business Growth
RBC Strategies for Business Expansion
RBC provides information to assist you in achieving your business growth goals from making the decision to grow, to developing your strategy, to implementing the growth and finally evaluating the results.
Planning for Business Growth – A Step by Step Guide
This guide includes tips and techniques that will show how you can evaluate the current state of affairs in the four main areas of your business – marketing, operations, human resources and finance. With this information in hand, you will be able to determine where your attention is needed most, set goals, develop strategies to achieve these goals.
Growing Your Business – A Guide to Resources for BC Women
This guide, designed for BC women, explains major considerations in growing your business, and provides tools to help you decide what growth means, how to ready yourself for change, and how to become a strategist. It includes key pointers, resources and many insights from inspirational women who share their own personal experiences.
Business Plan Financial
Basic Financial Statements
Introduction to financial statements and financial statement concepts.
Beginners Guide to Financial Statements
This tutorial is designed to help the small business owner learn how to use financial statements.
Venturewire
Current news about venture capital funding.
BC Angel Forum
Each spring and fall since 1997, the BC Angel Forum has been introducing emerging companies to private equity investors. Tech and non-tech pre-screened companies seek equity financing of $100,000 to $1 million, by delivering ‘live’ presentations to pre-secondary institutions.
Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)
The Business Development Bank of Canada delivers financial and management services, with a particular focus on the emerging and exporting sectors of the economy.
Canadian Youth Business Foundation
Start up loans of up to $15,000 for youth between the ages of 18 to 34.
Overview of Government Financing
Small Business BC directory of government financing for small business.
Steps to Growth Capital
The Canadian entrepreneur’s guide to securing risk capital Includes a self study guide and an investor readiness test.
Strategis: $ources of Financing
Sources of Financing helps you to find the lender that meets your needs. Access a Canadian database of government and private sector sources of debt and equity financing.
Marketing
Ways to Promote Your Product or Service
This document describes brief examples of ways to promote your product or service from the various print and electronic media.
Do You Know the Results of Your Advertising
This document gives pointers on planning ads and discusses several ways you can compare advertising and sales.
Marketing Guide
This handbook is intended to be a tool for entrepreneurs to assist them with their marketing efforts. It includes topics like Developing a Marketing Strategy; Market Research; Marketing Mix; Sales Forecasting; Marketing Services; Marketing on the Internet and more.
Marketing Plan Template
Learn the fundamentals of developing a Marketing Plan.
Media Matrix
Good source for online media measurement data such as unique users and page views.
Nielsen Net Ratings
Good source for online media measurement data such as impressions and reach.
Plan Your Advertising Budget
This document describes various methods for establishing an advertising budget and suggests ways of applying budget amounts to get the effect you want.
Patents
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Describes patents, trademarks and copyrights and provides information on how to get one.
Canadian Patents Database
Database provides access to over 75 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 1,900,000 patent documents.
New Business Information
Startup Journal
News and suggestions on new business, financing, technology.
Inc
Wide range of information/links on many aspects of starting/growing a business.
Entrepreneur.com
Stories, information on many aspects of starting a business.