2013 PARTNERSHIPS Entrepreneurship Empowers Everyone

Startup Blueprints!

•  The Startup Canada National Tour

• Startup Blueprints: the call-to-action for ushering in a new era of prosperity for Canada through entrepreneurship

Overview!

 

• Entrepreneurship: Canada’s engine of growth

•  Lack of awareness, understanding, and appreciation for entrepreneurship in Canada

Overview !

Proposed Initiatives: •  Unified brand for Canadian

entrepreneurship •  Celebrating the entrepreneurial mindset •  Showcasing entrepreneurial role models •  Supporting newcomer and boomer

entrepreneurship •  Fostering youth entrepreneurship •  Building entrepreneurial higher-

education •  Re-designing K-12 education

1. Culture & Education !

1. Culture & Education !

Proposed Initiatives: •  Creating a unified and inspirational brand for Canadian

entrepreneurship •  Promoting campaigns that celebrate the entrepreneurial

mindset and dispel misconceptions •  Showcasing inspiring entrepreneurial role models through

mainstream media, cultural institutions and grass-root social media campaigns

•  Unleashing newcomer and boomer entrepreneurship by providing them with support and recognition

•  Fostering youth entrepreneurship through youth media, entrepreneurial funding programs and volunteering opportunities at home and abroad

•  Building entrepreneurial higher-education through curricular innovation, collaborative networks, competitions, funding incentives and ratings

•  Re-designing K-12 education through early experiential learning, entrepreneurial games, story-telling and industry partnerships

 

2. Bigger & Better Business!

• Decline of major, high-growth companies in Canada – lack of new entrants to replace losses

• Need to cultivate more early-stage startups in order to produce major high-growth companies

• Canada needs sustainable companies that create real economical, social and environmental impact

Proposed Initiatives: •  Creating a one-stop online shop to share

resources •  Developing business-in-a-box solutions,

standardized hands-on training programs and community-based support frameworks

•  Championing mentorship as a critical element of entrepreneurship

•  Resolving the shortage of risk capital •  Securing discounted services and products

through collective bargaining

2. Bigger & Better Businesses!

2. Bigger & Better Businesses!

Proposed Initiatives: •  Providing offline and online networking opportunities for

entrepreneurs •  Making more human capital available to startups •  Equipping entrepreneurs to do business globally •  Augmenting government innovation and

commercialization programs •  Reducing red tape in government services •  Building local one-stop entrepreneurship hubs •  Enhancing support for social entrepreneurship

•  The Canadian entrepreneurship support community is highly fragmented

• Need to consolidate the support tools, programs, services and talents in the ecosystem

• Canada needs to fuel entrepreneurship from the bottom up through a national entrepreneurship network

3. Communities & Networks!

Proposed Initiatives: •  Creating a unified national network that

reduces fragmentation •  Engaging the government across multiple

departments •  Investing in the capacity of key national

associations •  Building entrepreneurial communities at the

local level •  Developing a unified research base •  Establishing a philanthropic foundation

endowed by successful Canadian entrepreneurs

3. Communities & Networks!

Final Words!

•  Canada needs to unite behind a common vision and strategy to empower its entrepreneurs

•  We need to create a grass-root, entrepreneur-led national entrepreneurial network

•  Welcome to the next era of Canadian nation building – welcome to Startup Canada

Contact hello@startupcan.ca & follow @startup_canada!