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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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Hackathon Generates Innovative Solutions for International Students in Kingston At a recent hackathon hosted by Venture for Canada, Queen’s University, and the City of Kingston, young entrepreneurs developed practical solutions to enhance the living and studying experiences of international students in Kingston, Ontario.
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A New Wave Podcast
“You know my view of entrepreneurship is that it's often like carving the Grand Canyon with water and gravity. You know you just keep at it long enough, you plug away at those problems one at a time in a systematic way.”
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Thinking Like a Founder, Navigating Risk, and Applying Lean Startup Principles to Your Life
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Thinking Like a Founder, Navigating Risk, and Applying Lean Startup Principles to Your Life
With Eric Ries
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Transforming Yourself to Transform the World, Navigating Career Crossroads, and Cultivating Your Inner Compass 
With Upkar Arora
With Upkar Arora
From Search to Purchase: Navigating Legal Dos and Don’ts of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition 
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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 
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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.
The Fellowship
Founding a Start Up: Mastering the art and science of sales 
With Chris Grouchy
With Chris Grouchy
Think Longer “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” - Einstein. An early mentor at one of my internships gave me the advice to “Think Longer”. It might be the best piece of advice I failed to take seriously.
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Venture for Canada Announces Project with Future Skills Centre Venture for Canada (VFC) is excited to announce the launch of a Reskilling Retail Workers, a project funded by the Government of Canada’s Future Skills Centre. This project supports the design of a reskilling program for displaced retail workers, focusing on racialized and Indigenous youth in Ontario.
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From the ground up: What does it take to build a successful e-commerce business? 
With Micha Saade
With Micha Saade
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