John Aylen - Starting and Running a Small Business for Canadians for Dummies All-In-One

Starting & Running a Small Business For Canadians All-in-One For Dummies

by John Aylen, Margaret Kerr,JoAnn Kurtz, Henri Charmasson, John Buchaca, Neil Milton, Diana Byron, Paul Tiffany, Steven D. Peterson, Nada Wagner, Lita Epstein, Ccile Laurin, Harold Messmer, Barbara Schenck, John Arnold, Ian Lurie, Marty Dickinson, Elizabeth Marsten, Michael Becker

Starting & Running a Small Business For Canadians All-in-One For Dummies

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Starting & running a small business for Canadians all-in-one for dummies / John Aylen ... [et al.]. Includes index.

Issued also in electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-118-17282-7 1. New business enterprises--Canada--Management. 2. Small business--Canada--Management. 3. Self-employed--Canada.

I. Aylen, John II. Title: Starting and running a small business for Canadians all-in-one for dummies. HD62.5.S835 2012 658.11410971 C2012-900468-5

ISBN 978-1-118-17282-7 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-118-22387-1 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-22389-5 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-22391-8 (ebk)

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About the Authors

John Aylen has a small business that provides marketing and communications services to businesses, institutional clients and not-for-profit organizations of all sizes. He is a regular guest lecturer at the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies at McGill University and has been a judge at the John Molson School of Business International MBA Case Competition for more than 10 years. He is the author of a number of books on small business management and contemporary history. He has written widely on business topics for magazines and newspapers in Canada and has edited books on health care and business strategy as well as works of fiction.

Margaret Kerr and JoAnn Kurtz are lawyers with experience in dealing face-to-face with clients questions and concerns. They have written a number of books, including Make It Legal: What Every Canadian Entrepreneur Needs to Know About the Law, Facing a Death in the Family, Wills and Estates for Canadians For Dummies, and Canadian Small Business Kit For Dummies. (All their bio information is joint as they co-author everything together.)

Henri Charmasson is an attorney with a 35-year career in the field of intellectual property (IP) law. He has been a naming adviser to major corporations. Henri is also an inventor with his name on 15 U.S. patents and an entrepreneur who sits on the board of several small business corporations. In his early engineering career, Henri designed computer hardware. Henri has authored several articles and delivered lectures on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret topics, and written an authoritative treatise about the art of naming companies and branding new products. Born, raised, and educated in sunny Provence, France, hes found in California the ideal place to exert his enterprising spirit.

John Buchaca, also an Intellectual Property law attorney, is a former software engineer and occasional inventor, and has worked with Henri for more than 15 years. Indeed, when Henri wrote the first edition of this book, John regarded himself as the first dummy. Before becoming a lawyer, he worked in ocean acoustics analysis and modeling and computer programming. His undergraduate degree is in applied mathematics. But his highest claim to fame (according to Henri) is being married to Henris daughter and to be the father of two of Henris grandchildren. He lives in San Diego, California where he is a partner at Charmasson, Buchaca & Leach, LLP, an IP law firm.

Neil Milton is Canadian lawyer with 20 years experience in intellectual property strategy and intellectual property transactions (licenses, purchase/sales, financings), for all manner of organizations: large established businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, charities, not-for-profits, and governments.

Diana Byron is a Toronto-based freelance writer and editor.