2013 PARTNERSHIPS Entrepreneurship Empowers Everyone
Startup Blueprints!
Overview! • The Startup Canada National
Tour • Startup Blueprints: the call-toaction 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
1. Culture & Education ! 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 highereducation • Re-designing K-12 education
1. Culture & Education !
Proposed Initiatives: • Creating a unified and inspirational brand for Canadian • •
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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
2. Bigger & Better Businesses! 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! 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
3. Communities & Networks! • 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
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!