Guides: BUS 461: Entrepreneurship: Forecasting & Trends

What's Hot & What's Not?

Trend Hunter: Find Better Ideas, Faster
New Business ideas from around the world
BNN: Business News Network
Business News Network is Canada’s only all business and financial news channel.
CBC News: Business
Globe and Mail: Report on Business
Small Business Canada
Includes "Where to Get Ideas for Your New Business?"
Ipsos News & Polls
U.S. polls, Canada polls, International polls. Includes topics such as consumer goods, consumer trends.
Entrepreneur Magazine
Includes a "Top 50" page of entrepreneur stories that score highest in page views and social engagement.

Events Eye This link opens in a new window
A searchable database of trade shows, exhibitions, and conferences to be held all over the world.

Why People Buy Things They Don't Need: understanding and predicting consumer behavior by Pamela N. Danziger
Call Number: HF 5415.32 .D36 2004
ISBN: 0793186021
Publication Date: 2004-07-01
Buyology: truth and lies about what we buy by Martin Lindstrom; Paco Underhill (Foreword by)
Call Number: HF 5415.12615 .L56 2010
ISBN: 9780385523899
Publication Date: 2010-02-02
Catch of the Decade by Gabby Leibovich; Hezi Leibovich
Publication Date: 2020-11-23
In Catch of the Decade, two of Australia's most successful online superstars reveal how they've built, launched, merged, and sold some of the most disruptive businesses in Australia today: Catch, Scoopon, Menulog and Luxury Escapes. This book contains little-known secrets and strategies that will help you shorten your learning curve, avoid mistakes, and bring your business dream alive. The wisdom revealed in this book is hard won: brothers Gabby and Hezi Leibovich started with no money and no connections, turned their drawbacks into assets, and came out on top.