british-columbia
(7)
Accelerate Okanagan and the art of making a small city invest
In Kelowna, a technology nonprofit teaches both sides of the funding table. Its lesson for other regions: a promising founder is only half the equation.
New Ventures BC asks the C$200 question: who will buy it?
A startup competition with homework, a volunteer network with rules, and a prize that comes after months of scrutiny. New Ventures BC helps founders turn a clever idea into a business someone might actually buy from.
Greater Vancouver Board of Trade: The business of getting things moving
Born after Vancouver’s Great Fire, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade now tackles a different kind of gridlock: trade barriers, slow growth, and the challenge of getting the right people in the room.
Trinity Western’s $125 Million Bet: Keep the Faith, Lose the Walls
Canada’s largest Christian university learned the cost of turning conviction into a gate. Now it is chasing 10,000 learners with online degrees, global partnerships and a divinity-school gift - without sanding away the belief system people come for.
No Fear Counselling Turned the Hardest Part of Therapy Into Its Business
The Burnaby practice did not invent a new kind of therapy. It made the old kind easier to enter - then used a sprawling therapist network, low-cost training pipeline and two mergers to turn access into the product.
The 124-Year-Old Insurer That Turned Farm Risk Into a Modern Niche
Mutual Fire survived Prairie catastrophe losses by narrowing its risk, rewriting farm insurance in plain English, and betting on brokers. The lesson is useful far beyond insurance: specialize hard, make the confusing legible, and digitize the bottleneck without abandoning the human who closes the sale.
The Restoration Company Betting That Less Demolition Is Better Business
Platinum Pro-Claim Restoration makes money cleaning up chaos. Its sharper idea is that the cheapest, fastest and greenest piece of a rebuild may be the thing you never tear out.