Canada: The Next Startup Frontier?

Posted by Victoria on Apr 3, 2013 in Blogs, Media | 0 comments

Tweet Issie Lapowsky - Inc. Magazine – April 3 With its new Startup Visa program, Canada’s hoping to lure foreign entrepreneurs. But what do start-ups stand to gain by heading north? Jason Kenney, Canada’s minister of citizenship, immigration, and multiculturalism, says he has the United States Congress to thank for Canada’s new start-up visa program. “There’s been a bill sitting on the order paper in Congress for several years to create a start-up visa,” Kenney says. “We thought it was a brilliant...

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Lennox on CBC’s Lang & O’Leary

Posted by Victoria on Dec 4, 2012 in Media | 0 comments

Tweet Victoria Lennox appeared on CBC’s Lang & O’Leary on December 4th to discuss Canada’s entrepreneurial culture, crowd funding of new ventures and Startup Canada. Click here to see the clip – 35 minutes in.

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Fab 30: Victoria Lennox, Co-Founder Startup Canada

Posted by Victoria on Jul 18, 2012 in Media | 0 comments

Tweet Frank Condron, Jim McElgunn, Ian Portsmouth and Kim Shiffman || July 18, 2012 // Profit Magazine Click here to read the article. ” Ask anyone familiar with Victoria Lennox to sum her up in a single word, and “tireless” would be it. The Ottawa native is only 28, yet she has run or launched several organizations in the service of entrepreneurship, including the International Consortium of University Entrepreneurs, which spans 80 universities in 14 countries. Her latest project is Startup Canada, and...

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