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  • Ten Tips to Becoming a Better Entrepreneur

    How does one become a good entrepreneur, really? The magic recipe is hard to figure out, but here are 10 tips to help you out.

  • 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, […]

  • Spin Master Innovation Fund Alumni: Where Are They Now?

    A Futurpreneur Canada 20th Anniversary Feature This year, Futurpreneur Canada celebrates their 20th Anniversary. To celebrate our anniversary and the recent opening of the 2016 Spin Master Innovation Fund applications, we wanted to take a look at our past Spin Master Innovation Fund recipients and see where they are now. For the past six years, […]

  • Spotlight on Hexa Foods: Changing the Way We Think About Pet Food

    What do a finance professional, mechanical engineer and operations and sales guru have in common? An innovative new business, that’s what. Philippe Poirier, Paul Shenouda and Mathieu Poirier started their business, Hexa Foods, a Montreal-based company that develops, manufactures and sells eco-friendly and radically sustainable pet foods made with edible insects. Their first brand, BugBites, […]

  • How to Look at Operational Efficiency to Maximize Profits

      Businesses are fundamentally composed of two elements—revenue and expenses. Every resource in an organization is devoted to one or another, or both. When scaling a business, it’s equally as important to ensure that expenses are minimized while maximizing the efficiency of those resources. It’s a big part of what helps create healthy profits. Most […]

  • Spotlight on Crik Nutrition: One of the World’s Hottest Start-Ups

    Alex Drysdale, a resident of Stony Mountain, Manitoba, always felt an inner driver to become an entrepreneur, but didn’t really know it was possible until just a couple years ago. Like many entrepreneurs, Alex dabbled with entrepreneurial things such as buying old houses, renovating them and then renting them out on the side of juggling […]

  • Spotlight on Kailey Gilchrist of NONA Vegan Foods: A Saucy Business

    In honour of World Vegetarian Month, we thought we’d feature one of our foodie entrepreneurs, NONA Vegan Foods. Nona Vegan is a line of vegan and gluten-free cream sauces including Alfredo, cheese and carbonara styles that are sold across Ontario. Started by Kailey Gilchrist in Toronto, NONA’s rich and creamy sauces can be used on […]

  • Five Emotions to Overcome as an Entrepreneur

    The business world is often portrayed as a temple of pragmatism, inhabited by disciples and prophets of pure and perfect rationalism. But, it’s actually the complete opposite! In reality, the business world is made up of sensible people who occasionally express intense emotions. The world of entrepreneurship is no exception. It’s a huge responsibility to […]

  • Futurpreneur Entrepreneurs Celebrate Canada Day

    It’s Canada Day and we’re celebrating all the entrepreneurs who are helping to build a strong future for this wonderful country we call home! We asked a few of our “Futurpreneurs” to give us their opinions on entrepreneurship in Canada and why it is so important to our country. “Young entrepreneurs are not only crucial […]

  • Alto Collective

    Kevin Alto, Co-Founder, Alto Collective Starting and running your own business is a very emotional endeavor– it takes a lot both physically and mentally. Since it was just my brother and me that started Alto Collective, the company and the products we make are essentially an extension of ourselves, which raises the emotional game even […]

  • Advice for starting and growing a successful business

    There are various factors that contribute to business success and a few of them are discussed in this article. Building a business is like building a house, flying an airplane, and raising the child from cradle to maturity. It takes time, money and efforts. Before launching a business of your desire, you have to consider […]