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Launch Academy Leads Effort to Train 100,000 Canadians on How to Build a Startup in Partnership With Startup Canada
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Vancouver, BC, November 1, 2016--(T-Net)--Vancouver-based tech incubator Launch Academy announced today a partnership with Startup Canada to provide startup education to early-stage entrepreneurs across all Canadian startup communities through an online course called LEAP Online.
LEAP Online is designed to provide entrepreneurs with the knowledge and framework to validate their ideas in a scientific way.
“After mentoring 1000 entrepreneurs and incubating more than 400 startups, we realized that most entrepreneurs make the same expensive mistakes.” said Alex Chuang Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Launch Academy. “And what we have discovered was a lot of these common mistakes can be easily prevented if entrepreneurs know how to design and conduct meaningful startup experiments. That is why we have condensed all of our learnings in the past four years into this online course so anyone can learn how to build a startup from anywhere.”
LEAP online is the online version of Launch Academy's Lean Entrepreneur Acceleration Program (LEAP). In three years time, the program has successfully graduated more than 200 aspiring entrepreneurs in Vancouver and has consistently received a 4.9 star out of 5, according to the company.
The Next Big Thing Foundation, a charitable organization co-founded by Ryan Holmes (CEO of Hootsuite), also runs their cohort of young entrepreneurs through LEAP.
“There is an abundance of startup resources on the Internet today but many entrepreneurs don't know where to start or how to start.” said Victoria Lennox, CEO of Startup Canada. “What LEAP online has done is borrow the most salient knowledge from some of the world's best startup experts and package it into a framework that entrepreneurs can apply for any type of startup idea they may have.”
The online course covers a wider variety of topics including:
Introduction to Startups
The Fundamentals of Lean Methodology
Introduction to Lean Canvas
How to conduct a problem research
How to construct a predictive persona
How to design a startup experiment
How to conduct a startup experiment
How to launch your startup with limited resources
How to measure the right key metrics
“Many startup communities do not have the same resources as Silicon Valley.” said Alex Chuang. “Our aim is to empower 100,000 Canadian entrepreneurs to compete on the same playing field.”
To sign up for LEAP Online, please visit: http://leaponline.launchacademy.ca
About Launch Academy
Launch Academy is Western Canada's leading tech hub and early-stage startup incubator where entrepreneurs launch their ideas, accelerate their startups to success, and connect with Vancouver's largest community of mentors, investors and entrepreneurs.
Since 2012, Launch Academy has helped 1000+ entrepreneurs, incubated 420+ early-stage startups, that collectively raised $80+ million and added 800+ jobs to the economy.
About Startup Canada
Startup Canada is a national social enterprise supporting and giving a voice to entrepreneurs through online programs, national awards, flagship events, and partnerships with private sector and government to foster a community for startup and small business success across the country.
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Alex Chuang, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer
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