Grow Sales, Not Stress Levels
The doors are open, the website is live, and you have paying customers!
However, the journey is really just beginning. The entrepreneurial path can be a special blend of scary and exciting. It can often be fraught with barriers, pitfalls, and challenges. Owning your own brand sometimes feels like trying to steer a sailboat solo when you’re still learning the ropes by falling overboard.
Invest Ottawa helps entrepreneurs manage their growth strategies by trying to provide them with support when they specifically need it. Here are some of the services that you may be able to access:
- Small-batch learning with seasoned pros:
Through our Education Centre, peer groups, and other educational programs, you and your business can learn new strategies with a competent teacher there to support you. Our facilitators are experienced business owners and trainers who know what it takes to get a business sailing smoothly.
- Consultations with experts:
Our seasoned experts can help steer you in the right direction and keep you busy for months. All our advisors and veterans are specially selected for their prowess in their given fields. They have additional expertise in other areas like partnership development, marketing, exit planning, validation, product development, and day-to-day management.
- Market insight & intelligence:
The data you need to make informed decisions regarding your business. Select clients can receive up-to-date and practical information on industries, competitors, market size, trends, intellectual property, potential investors, and strategic partners.
- Boot camps and Multi-Day courses:
Deep dives into strategies that can help refine your product/service, build out operational efficiencies, find ways to free up cash flow, and possibly scale your brand.
- Networking and Connections:
Making valuable connections takes up valuable time. Odds are we know someone who can help you. Invest Ottawa’s stakeholders have vast networks that you can leverage.
Invest Ottawa also works with other regional innovation centres as part of the Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs (ONE) and the provincial funding organization, Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE). Our federal partners include the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) and other funding bodies that ensure a strong capital base for your company.
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“We seek out Invest Ottawa continuously because every new stage that you reach in your business, you need new mentors to guide you through.”
“Invest Ottawa has given us access to an incredible group of advisers, all of whom bring very different but important advice to help us shape our strategy and development going forward.”
“Invest Ottawa has been great to us. We’ve been able to get feedback and resources that we wouldn’t be able to otherwise access. Employees really want to see the companies succeed and will do whatever it takes to help.”
“Everyday we come to IO and something new happens. We run into other founders and just by bouncing ideas off, we come up with new ideas for our start-up. The mentors are extremely helpful as well. They helped us distill our ideas at various stages so we could avoid stepping on landmines.”
Networking
Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. Ottawa is home to dozens of quality events each month. Make that key connection which helps move the needle for your business.
Upcoming Event
Talent Summit: Future of Work
eSAX Virtual Events Platform
September 28, 2021
8:00 AM
Upcoming Event
Doing business with the Government of Canada (webinar)
Webinar
September 28, 2021
12:00 PM
Upcoming Event
Employment Fraud Workshop: Know the Facts AND Protect Yourself!
September 28, 2021
1:00 PM
Upcoming Event
Excel 101 workshop
Volunteer Ottawa
Online via Zoom
September 28, 2021
1:30 PM
Upcoming Event
Workplace Dynamics Are Different in 2021. Learn How to Become an Adaptable Leader That Unifies Your Team
Virtual Webinar
September 29, 2021
11:00 AM
Upcoming Event
Parcours de Femmes: Le café du Burundi à l’honneur avec Deborah Ntawigirira
Société Économique de l'Ontario
214 Montréal Rd - bureau 202,
Vanier, ON K1L 8L8
September 29, 2021
6:30 PM
Upcoming Event
Business After 5 – Virtual Networking
Virtual - eSAX Virtual Events Networking Platform
October 18, 2021
5:00 PM
Upcoming Event
‘Tis The Season: Easily Create Fall and Holiday Flyers with Canva
September 29, 2021
12:00 pm
Upcoming Event
Intro to Invest Ottawa Venture Programs for Tech Companies
September 29, 2021
12:00 pm
Upcoming Event
How to Create Clickworthy Content That People Actually Care About
September 29, 2021
2:00 pm
Upcoming Event
Corporate Taxation & Corporate Structures : Logan Katz
September 30, 2021
1:00 pm
Upcoming Event
Financial Wellness and its Impact on the Mental Health on Talent
October 5, 2021
11:00 am
Upcoming Event
An info session with AWS: Top cloud skills & Free workshop opportunities
October 6, 2021
12:00 pm
Upcoming Event
Half-Day Interactive Drone Workshop Hosted by Invest Ottawa
October 13, 2021
9:00 am
Upcoming Event
AccelerateOTT Hybrid, Invest Ottawa’s flagship entrepreneurship conference
October 27, 2021
9:30 am
Starter Company Plus is a 4-month cohort-based training program. It’s designed for Ottawa entrepreneurs building businesses that are early-stage and non-tech.
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Still deciding if Starter Company Plus is right for you?
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