Resource Knowledgebase
Sharing innovative and engaging ideas from throughout the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Find stories, tools, research, videos, podcasts and other content curated for those whose work supports women entrepreneurs in Canada.
Funding & Finance
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How Good Debt Can Fuel Your Business Growth
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Beyond Bootstrap or Borrow: How to reduce sludge, bias, and bottlenecks in the funding process
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Entrepreneur’s Toolkit / BDC
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Financial advice for Canadian women entrepreneurs / EDC
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How to Get a Business Loan / BDC
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The Pros and Perils of Bootstrap Financing
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The Psychological Barriers Women Entrepreneurs Face Around Debt
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What accessing capital looks like for Indigenous entrepreneurs – and how we can do better / The Globe & Mail
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What the WEOC loans team looks for in a business plan
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Why it’s time to move beyond bootstrapping
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Women entrepreneurs face financing challenges
ExportHUB
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Trade Secrets: Essential Export Strategies for Business Advisors
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Are trade missions worth the investment for women entrepreneurs? Trade missions explained
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Beyond your backyard: Growing your business through social media
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Black entrepreneurs and intellectual property
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Crossing borders: What you need to know about service export
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Diverse supplier programs want to certify entrepreneurs like you
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EXPORT BLOG: Women, export & the beverage industry
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Export Through a Gender Lens Toolkit
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ExportHUB Links
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Funding for Business Women, Government of Canada
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How (and why) to export services: Insights from two women entrepreneurs who’ve done it
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How Indigenous women entrepreneurs are finding success through virtual sales
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How to make your business change the world
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Startup Global from Startup Canada
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These bananas can help you transition your business into fair trade
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Topics in IP for women entrepreneurs and advisors PLAYLIST
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WEOC Export Minute: Canada’s Free Trade Agreement (Video)
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WEOC Export Minute: Certificate of Origin (Video)
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WEOC Export Minute: Social Procurement (Video)
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WEOC Export Minute: Supplier Diversity (Video)
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WEOC Export Minute: Trade Missions (Video)
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WEOC Export Minute: Trademarks (Video)
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WEOC Presents: Cross-Border Perspectives: Women entrepreneurs with a disability
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What your clients need to know about IP before exporting
Marketing & Branding
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The Entrepreneurial Benefits of Self-Publishing: Top Three Takeaways
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Topics in IP for women entrepreneurs and advisors PLAYLIST
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Web Writing and Usability Foundations for Business
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Skills & Tools
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Taste of Success: Empowering Women in the Food Industry, Presented by Small Scale Food Processors Association
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Book List: 12 Books by and for women entrepreneurs / Inc.com
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Book List: Advice That Sticks, by Dr. Moira Somers
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Business Term Glossary / BDC
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Engage! Online Essential Facilitation Skills with Cate Friesen: Module 4 – Raise the Odds that the Learning Sticks
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Entrepreneur’s Toolkit / BDC
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