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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Ask Me Anything: Navigating Tax Law for Your Business
This is an online webinar, please register to receive the meeting details.
May 19, 2021
3:00 PM
Upcoming Event
AMA: Navigating Tax Law for Your Business
Online via Zoom
May 19, 2021
5:00 PM
Upcoming Event
TECHSPO Toronto 2021 Technology Expo (Internet ~ Mobile ~ AdTech ~ MarTech ~ SaaS)
Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre Hotel
525 Bay St
Toronto
Ontario
M5G 2L2
Canada
May 20, 2021
9:00 AM
Upcoming Event
DigiMarCon Canada 2021 – Digital Marketing, Media and Advertising Conference & Exhibition
Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre Hotel
525 Bay St
Toronto
Ontario
M5G 2L2
Canada
May 20, 2021
9:00 AM
Upcoming Event
Study and Go Abroad Virtual Education Fair
Virtual/online
May 20, 2021
3:00 PM
Upcoming Event
Ask Me Anything: Raising Capital for Startups
This event is an online webinar, please register to receive the meeting details.
May 21, 2021
12:00 PM
Upcoming Event
Doing business with the Government of Canada (webinar)
Webinar
May 25, 2021
12:00 PM
Upcoming Event
Info Session – Youth Business Incubation Course
webinar - incubator13
May 25, 2021
5:00 PM
Upcoming Event
Introduction to Web Accessibility and Accessible Social Media
May 25, 2021
2:00 pm
Upcoming Event
Financing 101: SAFEs, Prefs and Other Convertible Securities
Webinar
May 26, 2021
2:00 pm
Upcoming Event
Knowing Your Numbers & Your Why: A workshop for Indigenous entrepreneurs
May 27, 2021
9:00 am
Upcoming Event
Celebrating Asian Heritage and Business: Visibility, Community and Strength
May 31, 2021
9:30 am
Upcoming Event
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): what’s in it for us?
Webinar
May 31, 2021
1:00 pm
Upcoming Event
Developing Self-Management Skills for Your Well-Being
Webinar
June 1, 2021
11:00 am
Upcoming Event
Email 101: How to Build and Automate a Successful Email Campaign
June 4, 2021
10:00 am
Upcoming Event
Getting Hacked: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself?
Webinar
June 9, 2021
11:00 am
Upcoming Event
Microsoft 365 vs Google Workspace – What collaboration platform to choose
Webinar
July 15, 2021
11:00 am
Are you preparing for your company’s financing? Take some time to understand the difference between SAFEs, preferred shares and other convertible securities with @MDKPC_Law and @Drew_Kelsall on May 26th.
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🗓️This virtual event will give visibility to Asian entrepreneurship, bringing together a diversity of Asian leaders and business people to exchange ideas for recovery and growth, and build support and allyship with the broader Ottawa community. https://t.co/9omCUyORYp https://t.co/lXTfuxrk9D
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