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Sure, you are not likely to land any source of funding while you’re there, so you’ll have to lower your expectations.

But if you really want to play in this world, you’ve got to learn how it works and this is one of the ways to immerse yourself.

Sometimes the source of money you’re looking for that is the right fit for your business may be one or two degrees of separation from someone you may meet at a fair as well.

Now seven weeks into partnership-building phase, the StartUp Canada Campaign has grown to over 70 partners across Canada, with more than 30 new partners joining this month. New partners represent a diverse spectrum of enterprise support – e.g. the Canadian Venture Capital Association, the Canadian Association of Business Incubators,CATAlliance, ACCT Canada, the BC Innovation Council, Start Me Up Ryerson, Community Futures Saskatchewan,Impact, Centre for Social Innovation, and Young Social Entrepreneurs of Canada. Partners are taking it upon themselves to contribute to building the campaign in a multitude of ways – from supporting planning and helping to grow the network to providing human resource capacity and resource sharing.

Special thanks this month goes to Rivers Corbett, Andrea Whabe, Shannon Wells, Didier LeConte, Maura Rodgers, Richard Remillard, Andrew Patricio, Ben Yoskovitz and Erin Bury for their wonderful support with growing the community.

While partnership building continues throughout the Summer months, in July we turn our attention to:

Further developing business, strategic, financial, operational, marketing and partnership plans;

Developing models and metrics for measuring success;

Assembling a high-level, representative Board of Directors and a robust governance structure; and,

Resourcing the Campaign through building corporate, media, PR, legal and accountancy partnerships.

In doing so, we will be working with the support and advice of our Advisors and key partners. We welcome partners that have capacity to consider taking on a greater leadership role in promoting, building and co-piloting the Campaign and contributing to the priorities above to reach out at anytime to discuss ways forward.

A great deal has been achieved over the last two months in terms of building the partner community across sectors and regions. While the community continues to grow, we now turn greater attention to designing the blueprints and securing the support necessary to begin building the campaign.

Thank you all for your encouragement and support of this initiative.

In the spirit of enterprise,

Victoria