Business Startup and Entrepreneurship: Canada

Reviewed by Amanda K. Miller, Part-Time Faculty, Central Oregon Community College on 3/19/26

Comprehensiveness rating: 4 see less

This book is very student friendly with comprehensive materials and examples that are current and relevant.

Content Accuracy rating: 5

There is not any evidence of biases that I noted, and the material is accurate and has little to no errors present.

Relevance/Longevity rating: 4

This text was published in 2021 and the relevancy of some of the material is very appropriate for our modern digital age. It references a digital app called Meetup in the networking section, and incorporates videos into the text with relevant examples that are current.

Clarity rating: 5

The material has great syntax and sentence clarity, while still having a slightly informal but professional tone to keep the material from seeming a bit dry for students.

Consistency rating: 4

This book does pull material from other modern business OER texts, but the tone and material seems to be consistent, which eliminates distraction from other writing styles that can happen when utilizing other texts.

Modularity rating: 5

This is a very well structured text, and it has ease of access and transparency for each section. The chapters, or modules, are appropriate for the content and it flows well to build a class around from start to finish.

Organization/Structure/Flow rating: 5

It is well organized and has a very appropriate structure.

Interface rating: 5

I would say this text is very easy to access and has a clear organizational interface.

Grammatical Errors rating: 5

No grammar or syntax errors found.

Cultural Relevance rating: 5

When it comes to business courses, there is always a risk of providing business examples and learning materials that might seem bias or possibly culturally offensive, however, I did not see any indication of this with these examples and references.

This is a great book for business classes, and not just an entrepreneurial course, because the chapters are comprehensive and could pulled for other classes addressing that topic because each chapters feels comprehensive enough to be its own topic module material! What also excited me about this text is that is comes with an open source Business Plan Worksheet that is interactive and relevant to business students and entrepreneurs. The worksheet is also comprehensive and end-user friendly with the ability to download and save a copy when you complete the workbook.