 Dear Partners and Friends,
I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to all of the Startup Canada Partners and supporters who provided their time to grow the community and design the campaign blueprints over the last month. As a result of your efforts, Startup Canada has now taken on a momentum of its own with more than 100 national, provincial and local partners contributing to the Campaign in a multitude of ways.
With August upon us, as part of our Pre-Launch plans, Startup Canada is now turning its attention from Partnership Building to Building the Organization. While we will continue to accept new partners, in August the Team is now focusing on implementing the governance structure, working with Startup Canada Provincial Ambassadors, resourcing the campaign, and empowering our community partners to contribute to the Campaign’s programming strategy through our August Online Town Hall via LinkedIn.
We welcome partners that have capacity to consider taking on a greater leadership role in promoting, building, resourcing and co-piloting the Campaign and contributing to the priorities above to reach out at anytime to discuss ways forward.
In this Pre-Launch Update you will find information on how to contribute to the development of the Startup Canada Campaign this month; find out who is new to the Community and who has been helping to build the initiative; and, learn why some amazing Canadian enterprise champions support Startup Canada.
In the spirit of enterprise,
Victoria Lennox
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Open Call for Provincial Ambassadors
Interested and appropriate organizations are invited to submit their interest to become the 'home' of the Campaign in their province by August 15, 2011. These organizations will work closely with both local Startup Canada partners and the National Secretariat to govern, develop, launch and roll out the Campaign across Canada. Coalitions of organizations are welcome to bid together. For further information and to express interest, please visit: http://www.startupcanadacampaign.org/?page_id=59. |
Online Town Hall - Have Your Say
Throughout the month of August, all Partners are invited to have their say on the Startup Canada program strategy through the Startup Canada Online Town Hall via Linkedin. Let us know what you want to see in each program element and share any other ideas that you have about how we can work together to Startup Canada.
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How You Can Help in August
1. Tweet your support of @Startup_Canada
2. Invite your partners to join the Startup Canada Community via http://startupcanada.wufoo.com/forms/startup-canada-partner-form/
3.Communicate! Keep the Startup Canada Team up to date on your efforts and let them know how they can support you in building the community within your sector.
4. Visit your local Member of Parliament to introduce them to Startup Canada and ask them for their support via endorsing the Campaign! This is a great opportunity for you to update them on how you are contributing to the national entrepreneurship agenda. Click here to find your MP. Let us know how we can help!
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 Why Do You Support Startup Canada?
 "We passionately believe that collaboration will create a significant increase in synergies and efficiencies within Canada."
Candace Brinsmead, Vice President, Edmonton Economic Development Corporation
 “Because inspiration is a powerful lever. It can move someone with a small idea to create impact. Startup Canada is looking to inspire Canadians about the value of being enterprising - whether its a big idea or small, within an organization or without, and across public, private and non-profit sectors.”
Vinod Rajasekaran, Executive Director, Hub Ottawa
 "To help further support and provide visibility re: the importance of entrepreneurs in Canada."
Bryan Watson, Executive Director, National Angel Capital Organization
 "Left and right, business and non-profit, government and citizen; economic development and the human flourishing to which this leads involves everyone. Startup Canada gets this!"
Lisa Helps, Executive Director, Victoria Community Micro Lending Society
 "We feel that Waterloo Region has a strong position in this area and we would love to help inspire other cities and regions in the country."
Josh Wright, Manager, Accelerator Centre Waterloo
 "We believe that the Startup scene requires a cohesive plan in order to build Canadian success stories."
Jeff Musson, President, Maple Leaf Digital Lounge
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July 2011 Kudos
Thank you to the following enterprise stars for their wonderful support in helping to build the campaign in July - our kudos this month goes to you!
July 2011 New Partners
Welcome to the more than 60 partners that joined in July 2011 as new Partners of Startup Canada - Welcome to the Startup Canada Community.
About Startup Canada
The Startup Canada Campaign is an entrepreneur-led, grassroots initiative to celebrate, inspire and accelerate enterprise in Canada through:
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Bringing together and leveraging the capacities of the Canadian enterprise support community;
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Catalyzing a national mainstream media campaign to increase awareness of the impact of entrepreneurs and those who support them; and,
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Providing Canadians with an online resource to easily identify and connect with enterprise support, resources, opportunities and offerings to start and grow their ventures.
The Campaign is currently in pre-launch partnership building phase wherein enterprise support organizations from all sectors and regions offering support to entrepreneurs at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey are invited to become a partner in the campaign by completing the form found at: http://startupcanada.wufoo.com/forms/startup-canada-partner-form/.
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