B.C.’s economy is booming, and it’s not just the big guys that are reaping the rewards. Ninety-eight out of every 100 employers in B.C. are small businesses.
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Are you planning on starting a small business?
BCBusiness Online provides you with a list of resources that will help you get started.
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Did you know that small businesses make up more than 95 per cent of the businesses in British Columbia?
This month, BCBusiness Online highlights a few of the stories of B.C. entrepreneurs and examines some of the challenges they are facing.
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The blue chips grab headlines, but it’s the small and medium-sized businesses that make B.C.’s economy buzz. Compared to the rest of the country (per capita), B.C. has the fastest-growing small business sector and the second-largest number of small businesses. The sector provides the biggest proportion of private-sector jobs, and it makes the biggest contribution to the GDP (based on 2005 figures from BC Stats). Driving that sector are the genius, ambition and blind courage of B.C.’s entrepreneurs. BCBusiness heard the stories of a few standout small-business people whose innovations are being felt around the world.
It’s nice to celebrate their success, but what we really want is to learn from their stories…
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They say self-employed mothers can have it all. They’re lying.
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