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>In order to apply for the program an entrepreneur or startup must first have secured a minimum investment of $200,000 if the investment comes froma designated
by marcamillion 14y ago
>In order to apply for the program an entrepreneur or startup must first have secured a minimum investment of $200,000 if the investment comes froma designated Canadian venture capital fund or $75,000 if the investment comes from a designated Canadian angel investor group. Applicants will also need to meet general program requirements, such as language proficiency and academic experience.
This is just silly. Especially the "academic experience". A good chunk of the people that do startups of this nature, probably won't have "academic experience" - so that's a self-selecting, self-defeating bias right there.
- lucisferre 14y agoIf it's anything like other visa problems the academic experience is probably a little flexible. I was involved in getting a visa for someone from Microsoft who didn't have official "academic experience" however his position and history with MS was considering sufficient to justify it. That said, I completely agree it's a stupid requirement to place on this.
- raquo 14y agoThe academic requirement is just one year of post-secondary, even an abandoned degree would work.