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Searching Amazon.com for business plan books provides over 36,000 results. Few other areas of the business section in Borders is so crowded. Why is this? I believe it is because somehow business owners think that if they have a good enough business plan, they can convince investors to give them money and make their business successful. Entrepreneurs just like you are constantly seeking the silver bullet of “the perfect business plan” that will get them financing and bring them to the promised land of business fortunes. I have some bad news for you if that is what you are looking for. A plan, no matter how good it is, will not make you rich or successful. If running a successful business was as easy as writing a plan, very few businesses would fail. Current statistics show that the more than half of all new businesses fail in their first two or three years. This is not news. The majority of businesses have been failing since the first owner put out a shingle. Why? Bad ideas? ...

Canadians may not be known for the boats they manufacture but they actually have a good history with it. The Chemin du Roy, a road along the St. Lawrence River shore in Quebec, Canada, is a historically important road because it made transportation between Montreal and Quebec possible in just two days. Villagers saw the opportunity to manufacture canoes, rowboats and sailboats to serve as an alternative for passengers and goods. To bring the workers to this area, steamboats, canoes and barges were used. It was in 1935 when Moïse Cadorette started a company which fabricated canoes and small pleasure boats in St-Jean-des-Piles. They later introduced fiberglass in the manufacturing of their products to mould the hulls – a first in Canada in 1956. Later on, the Doral Boat was born in 1972. But it was in the historic town of Grand Mère, Quebec that the major business on boat manufacturing flourished when they moved there in 1989 after two local entrepreneurs bought Moï...