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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
"Things started to click in my head that I was surrounded by entrepreneurs my entire life. They just were not called entrepreneurs…it took seeing somebody talk about their own non-traditional entrepreneurial journey for me to start connecting the dots and find the confidence in claiming my own space in the entrepreneurial world.”
Naoufel Testaouni and Andy Saldaña
Queer Entrepreneurship, Overcoming Challenges, and Building Community
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Queer Entrepreneurship, Overcoming Challenges, and Building Community
With Naoufel Testaouni and Andy Saldaña
With Naoufel Testaouni and Andy Saldaña
Policy Change, Platform-Building, and Playful Disruption 
With Vass Bednar
With Vass Bednar
Entrepreneurial Leaves of Absence, Setting Boundaries, and Transforming Your Business 
With Annelies Tjebbes and Hayley Rutherford
With Annelies Tjebbes and Hayley Rutherford
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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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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.
VFC News
From the ground up: What does it take to build a successful e-commerce business? 
With Micha Saade
With Micha Saade
BHER and Venture for Canada partner to provide innovative work-integrated learning experiences for students in Alberta The Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) and Venture for Canada (VFC) are excited to announce a partnership to create 300 innovative work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Alberta. This partnership is made possible with support from the Government of Canada.
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Customer Success Management must-knows: Squeaky wheel gets the grease? 
With Ben Winn
With Ben Winn
Should I Have A Personal Brand (And If So, Where Do I Start) There’s a professional development trend going around that’s been widely misunderstood. Many fantasize about having it. Few follow through on building it. And even fewer do the work upfront to define what their end-goal is.
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Ongoing Celebration’s of Black Leaders and Black History after Black History Month Often when February comes to a close, so does the celebration of Black History Month in Canada. This year we saw extraordinary efforts, workshops, and events that elevated Black womxn, entrepreneurs, and founders.
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Venture for Canada Welcomes Joshua Goodfield, Lauren Ledwell, and Laura Silvester to Its Board of Directors
July 1, 2025
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July 1, 2025
29 Trailblazers Join Canada’s First ETA Academy in Toronto
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