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Venture for Canada Founder Scott Stirrett to Step Down as CEO in Fall 2025 After more than a decade of leadership, Venture for Canada Founder and CEO Scott Stirrett will step down in Fall 2025. Since launching VFC at just 22 years old, Scott has helped shape a national movement supporting over 10,000 young Canadians in developing entrepreneurial skills. His departure marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the organization as it continues to expand access to entrepreneurship and build on his enduring legacy.
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2025 Employer Advisory Council: Driving Innovation in Canada’s Startup Ecosystem Meet Venture for Canada's 2025 Employer Advisory Council—a diverse group of leaders from across Canada, offering insights from startups, small businesses, and various industries to shape the growth and evolution of VFC's programs.
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Venture for Canada Launches New Pathway to Business Ownership with ETA Academy Venture for Canada launches a new program to help aspiring entrepreneurs explore business acquisitions. The 5-week course runs from March 22 to April 27, 2025. Applications are now open.
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Markus Frind - Continual Improvement 
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Onboarding Series Part 3: The First Month, A Success For All In part 1 of this three-part series, we cover the importance of intentional onboarding progress; in part 2, we explain the pre-boarding phase and how focusing on the gap between offer and start date makes a huge difference for your team and managers. Here, we cover tips for success for your new hires in the first week and the first month to ramp up and provide within the first 30-days.
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Onboarding Series Part 2: Pre-Boarding, Building a Strong Foundation Part 1 of this series introduces the importance of why the onboarding process should be intentional. In Part 2, we introduce the "pre-boarding phase." We've developed a few resources you can access in our open-source drive to serve as the building blocks of your onboarding process.
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Onboarding Series Part 1: Why It Matters, A Master-Checklist Resource We should all care about onboarding. Leverage our research, best practices, tips and tools to avoid common mistakes young organizations make when they design and roll out their onboarding process.
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Applying Design Thinking Frameworks to Program Co-Creation An Update on the Design Phase of VFC’s Reskilling Retail Workers Project. You'll learn more about how we've created an innovative model design process that involves a consortium of cross-sector leaders, inclusive design, extensive literature reviews, and data validation.
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Venture for Canada releases 2021 Impact Report; supporting over 3,000 young, entrepreneurial careers
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Venture for Canada Launches 2022-3 Employer Advisory Council 2022 VFC EAC Members
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Mark Macleod: How Do I Grow 1% Each Day? 
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Venture for Canada Launches Fellowship Academy: A 60-Hour Shortcut into Canada’s Startup World
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