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  • Spotlight on NADA: Vancouver’s First Zero-Waste Grocery Store

    Even though governments and businesses across the world have implemented greener practices, the effects of climate change are already wreaking havoc on our planet. As our sea levels increase and our landfills continue to grow, more needs to be done to ensure a brighter and greener future. Fortunately, Canadian small businesses have been leaders in […]

  • Long Weekend Reading List

    It’s time for a roundup of some great content we found over the last few weeks online for entrepreneurs. Need a weekend read? Here is a list to power through and help motivate and inspire you this weekend. Seven Lessons From Building a Six-Figure Business in High School – Sebastian Dobrincu This article on Entrepreneur […]

  • Email Marketing for Your Business: A Beginner Guide

    Never underestimate the power of email marketing, a tactic that often gets lost among the shiny and new social media platforms that keep popping up. There are three times more email accounts than Facebook and Twitter accounts combined and it’s more likely to get a click-through from an email than a social media channel. These […]

  • Women Entrepreneur Series: Building the Community with Public General Store

    After gaining experience working in the retail and customer service industries for the last few years, Olena Kozel and Erin Ahl were inspired to create their own destiny by starting Public General Store in 2016. Olena had always known that she wanted to open up some sort of storefront focusing on small batch items and […]

  • Tools That’ll Make Every Entrepreneurs Life Easier

    As an entrepreneur, you’re often pulled in a million different directions and it can be hard to manage everything you have going on. Finding a product or software that helps you better keep on top of things and makes your life easier can have more benefits than you can count. We reached out to our […]

  • Volcano Bakery: Bringing a Taste from Home to St. John’s

    Both Icelandic, Haukur Hauksson (Hawk) and Adalbjorg Sigurthorsdottir (Adele) moved to St. John’s, Newfoundland in 2013 and decided to bring a part of home to Canada. Hawk had learned to be a baker in Iceland, as well as took courses to be a pastry chef in Denmark. Following, he worked in Norway for a year […]

  • Lyndon and Derrick: Two Brothers in the Saltwater Fish Business

    At five years old, brothers, Lyndon and Derrick Jameson had their first fish tank and after visiting the Vancouver Aquarium when they were 12, the two fell in love with saltwater ecosystems. After both completing their Bachelor in Science degrees with an emphasis on ecology and environmental science from the University of Manitoba, and working […]

  • Five Rules of Dating That Also Apply to Growing Your Business

    Written By:  Derrick Barber, Website Developer and Online Entrepreneur, LOWD Media and Textbookexchange.ca, London, Ontario At LOWD Media, I frequently work with small business owners who know it is time to create an improved website that ranks better in search. However, finding the time to collaborate on such a project takes an investment of time, […]

  • Spotlight on Celtic Knot: Balancing Full-Time Careers & a Business

    Prioritizing and balancing their time has become a key priority in building a successful business for Colin and Nanci Corcoran, as the business owners both have full-time jobs. Nanci works with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador in fines administration, and Colin works as a finance director with the Genesis Centre at Memorial University, and […]

  • Practicing Self-Care as Entrepreneurs

    Compiled By: Lauren Marinigh, Social Media & Content Creation Coordinator, Futurpreneur Canada This Sunday, July 24th, marks International Self-Care Day. Self-care is the care provided by you, for you and is all about identifying your own needs and taking the necessary steps to meet them every day. As entrepreneurs, we are usually leading chaotic, non-stop lives, […]

  • Spotlight on Eric Boudreau: Escaping the 9-5 to Open His Own Business

    With nearly 150 reviews on TripAdvisor, Facebook and Google, Escape Capers YYC opened its doors in September 2015 and has clearly become a go-to escape room in Calgary, Alberta. Escape Capers hosts a live-action game where you and your friends find yourselves trapped in a mysterious room with the challenge to get yourself out. You […]

  • Turn Your Idea Into a Successful Online Business

    Written By: Kayley Reed, Co-Founder, Wear Your Label Two years ago, I met Kyle MacNevin (co-founder of Wear Your Label) while volunteering at a local mental health organization in Fredericton. We quickly found common ground opening up about our mental health struggles: I was battling an eating disorder and Kyle living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and […]