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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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A New Wave Podcast
“I got our virtual assistant to change the password to my email so that I couldn't get into it. I deleted my email app from my phone. I packed up my desk. I put a cloth on top of it. I put art on top of it. I made it like a different structure in the home.”
Annelies Tjebbes and Hayley Rutherford
Entrepreneurial Leaves of Absence, Setting Boundaries, and Transforming Your Business
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Entrepreneurial Leaves of Absence, Setting Boundaries, and Transforming Your Business
With Annelies Tjebbes and Hayley Rutherford
With Annelies Tjebbes and Hayley Rutherford
Thinking Like a Founder, Navigating Risk, and Applying Lean Startup Principles to Your Life 
With Eric Ries
With Eric Ries
Transforming Yourself to Transform the World, Navigating Career Crossroads, and Cultivating Your Inner Compass 
With Upkar Arora
With Upkar Arora
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LISN-IN | It's all about trusting the process 
With Zameer Masjedee
With Zameer Masjedee
Venture for Canada Launches Intrapreneurship Program to provide Work-Integrated Learning Experiences for Underserved Students in Canada Venture for Canada (VFC) is excited to announce the launch of their Intrapreneurship Program—funded by the government of Canada’s Innovative Work-Integrated Learning Program—to create short duration, paid Innovative Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunities for students from underserved communities at small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) across Canada.
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Venture for Canada Welcomes New Board Directors, Bruce Sellery, Narinder Dhami, and Thomas Park Venture for Canada (VFC) is excited to announce the appointment of Bruce Sellery, Narinder Dhami and Thomas Park to VFC’s Board of Directors.
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Venture for Canada Announces Reskilling Retail Workers Project Steering Committee The Reskilling Retail Workers Project is a project funded by the Government of Canada’s Future Skills Centre. The project supports designing and testing a reskilling program for displaced retail workers, focusing on racialized and Indigenous youth to be tested and prototyped in Ontario.
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The Essential Entrepreneurial Skill: Always be learning We live in an age of hyper-access to information. Content comes in the form of articles, YouTube videos, or social media graphics. The platforms seem endless, especially if you’re on the go. Even driving, we have audiobooks and podcasts to consume new content and information.
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Leading Change 2021 Conference Reflection I gravitate towards events and programs that bring together youth to educate, encourage and amplify the voices of next-generation leaders; that’s largely a reason I was drawn to Venture for Canada’s fellowship in 2020. Recently, I attended Leading Change Capital 2021— a Globe Capital conference forum.
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Wants vs Needs: It's All About Curiosity 
With Susie Pan
With Susie Pan
2020 TD Clean Tech Prosperity Awards Announced by Venture for Canada Venture for Canada has announced the 2020 recipients of their TD Clean Tech Prosperity Awards. In partnership with TD, VFC recognizes 8 of their Fellowship Program participants every year for their commitment, passion, and interest in environmental sustainability and the cleantech sector.
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Talk like a human: It’s all about people 
With Kelsey Burdett
With Kelsey Burdett
The Importance of Perseverance In our life path, we often come across obstacles and can feel like giving up. However, I've found that positively reframing your thoughts and consistently working towards your goals help with feelings of defeat when things don’t go as planned.
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Comfort with ambiguity: Setting Expectations to get what you want 
With Josh Macintyre
With Josh Macintyre
The ROI of Creativity Here's how leaders can learn the benefits of innovation and how to foster an atmosphere of creativity in their teams.
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