Features
If Leonard Lee could create Lee Valley Tools by peddling stoves in his spare time, how hard could it be to launch a little surgical equipment company? He would soon find out By Olivia Stren
Franco Falcone runs a new kind of green business: Building 'authentic' Irish pubs out of a Calgary warehouse. By Janice Paskey
Sawsan Shoraan thought that buying a Quiznos franchise would make her dreams come true. Now she's leading a class-action lawsuit against the chain. By Mark Schatzker
The money hunt
How to hit up your friends, family, financiers and anyone else with cash to help fund your company. By John Lorinc
Departments
On the money: Why you should have listened when your guidance counsellor told you to go to trade school
Gig: Probably the two finest trout artists this country has ever produced
Danger pay: Long hauls, late nights and lousy drivers, welcome to the world of trucking
Tools of the trade: Behind the curtains with Chris Russell, painter to the power set
Start your own ...: Think spas have been done to death? Not on Bay Street, not like this
Agony of defeat: Just White Shirts was doing so well that it stopped selling just white shirts. Big mistake
Ask Catherine: Whether it's better to buy or lease, finally, an answer
Business 101: Got a million-dollar idea? Here's how to make sure nobody steals it
Closing time: Ripped off for the last time, Ed Bernard gives up on the auto-parts trade
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