It is an online course designed to educate inexperienced Canadian and foreign entrepreneurs about foundational rules of business engagement, regulatory compliance, startup operations and scaling, and aquiring investment in Canada.

Canadian Startup Ideation was conceptualized and crafted by real practitioners in law, finance, venture-capital and Angel investment, as well as by experienced business educators. Their distilled and vetted knowledge is highly valuable for any aspiring entrepreneur or first-time founder.

Access is granted for 1 full year upon purchase but in our graduates' experience the material takes about 4 months of self-paced study to complete, at 3-5 hours per week. To achieve the utmost efficiency and suitability the course is available online 24/7.

The information is presented in four modules, each containing 16 topics, with tests incorporated into each module.

At the end of each module, the participants are presented with a 16-question multiple choice exam designed to cover topics included in the module.

Of course! Canadian Startup Ideation will benefit you if you are an existing applicant in the Startup Visa Program. The IRCC is specifically requesting any possible evidence of business education based on Canadian content and covering startup business needs. This course is the perfect answer to those potential inquiries.

The original price of the course is CAD $1,490. This is a fantastic opportunity to save on your essential founding expenses and various fees while establishing your first-time business venture.

No, it's not explicitly mandatory as per IRCC requirements to complete this specific course. However, the course is highly recommended by participants to strengthen your SUV application, especially in situations when IRCC requests confirmation for business development and entrepreneurial readiness to run Canadian business successfully.

Althouh the IRCC never recommend any specific business development program for SUV applicants, our experience shows that completion of this course has a positive impact on the application process.

Absolutely! Even if you're familiar with business strategy in your country of residence, you need to familiarize yourself with Canadian reality and its entrepreneurial ecosystem to initiate your expansion into Canada.

Language and terminology barriers are critical to overcome. The balanced structure and sequence of topics will give any early-stage entrepreneur applicable, current and reliable information. IdeationLab is here to share that value with serious founders.

Unfortunately, no diploma or certificate can guarantee employment or business success by itself. This course is the accumulation of practical advisory from such reputable professionals as lawyers, accountants, and investors.

If you are unable to find answers to some of your critical questions about the Canadian startup ecosystem in general or, for example, licensing regulations in particular, completion of this course will equip you with necessary insight to engage with your potential partners and advisory groups confidently.

We are big believers that anything of value in life should cost us something. The creation of this course cost money. The maintenance of these materials up-to-date costs money. The backend support costs money. If you have it for free then someone is paying for you, and that someone may have a hidden agenda for you. We are openly independent, unbiased and want to be open and have relationship with our students without any prejudice. Monetary transactions make it clever and honest.

Every source has its own audience. If you have plenty of time and no particular interest but curiosity, if you treat any free-lunch offering as honest no-string-attached reality, if you never paid for practical advisory in your prior life – sure, this course may raise questions of cost.

The true value of our paid programs is three-fold: it saves you money on skipping the big pool of initial paid consultations; it is not tied up with any paid promotions to hook you up on something that pays for this course for you; and last but not least – it is an accumulation of proven track-records of our successful advisory team and their substantiative experience in helping people exactly like you, not some common average person. After all – we get what we paid for.