I feel this is one of the root problems with Canada's scene. Young founders are simply not viewed as credible without sufficient "experience" (an obvious euphem

I feel this is one of the root problems with Canada's scene. Young founders are simply not viewed as credible without sufficient "experience" (an obvious euphemism for age). The result is that assistance offered to start-ups (via accelerators, etc.) is way too often in the form of finding "experienced" entrepreneurs to "guide" the start-ups, instead of actually enabling the young founders. The experience of a former low-level exec from Nortel, RIM, IBM or Microsoft Canada is generally not relevant to a start-up. You may disagree, but I feel I spent enough years grinding it out in Canada to justify an opinion.