Calling all entrepreneurs! Come have your Friday morning coffee with us at Startup Zone! Bring your business ideas, questions, and grievances and get some great advice from local, like-minded entrepreneurs! No registration required. Our special guest on April 5th is Stefanie Corbett, Associate & Director of Operations at Island Capital Partners. Stefanie has been helping […]

Do you struggle to get to sleep at night? Do you wake up numerous times during the night and have a hard time falling asleep again? Are you tired of waking up tired? Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as tapping, is a stress reduction technique that can help calm that monkey mind that comes […]

Calling all entrepreneurs! Come have your Friday morning coffee with us at Startup Zone! Bring your business ideas, questions, and grievances and get some great advice from local, like-minded entrepreneurs! No registration required. Our special guest on April 12th is Stephanie Perreault-Bitter, owner of Summer Street Creative! Stephanie is the owner and operator of Summer […]

eForcePEI.ca provides job seekers, current employees, businesses and non-profits across Prince Edward Island with FREE eLearning Programs. Learn what you want, when you want, to gain the skills you need to create new opportunities in today's competitive marketplace. eForcePEI.ca is a free online learning platform where you can update your skills to excel in the workforce. Melissa […]

What is CBDC? As CBDCs, we assist in the creation of small businesses and in the expansion and modernization of existing businesses by providing financial and technical services to entrepreneurs. Financial assistance is available in the form of loans, loan guarantees and equity financing to existing and aspiring entrepreneurs. Business counseling & advice is available […]

Calling all entrepreneurs! Come have your Friday morning coffee with us at Startup Zone! Bring your business ideas, questions, and grievances and get some great advice from local, like-minded entrepreneurs! No registration required. Our special guest on April 26th is Peter Mate, owner of Planit Canada. Peter will be joining us via Skype for this […]

In partnership with Volta, Startup Zone is happy to present the following workshop: Managing Innovation in the Workplace Are you maximizing the potential for innovation in your organization? Managing Innovation in the Workplace calls for three fundamental steps: inspiration, ideation, and implementation. The inspiration phase is the chance to culturally immerse ourselves in customer environments […]

In partnership with Volta, Startup Zone is happy to present the following workshop: Effective Storytelling Storytelling is and has always been the way we understand the world; we have been telling stories for millennia to make sense of complex scenarios and the patterns around us. As a leader, you need to inspire, influence, and advocate […]

Calling all entrepreneurs! Come have your Friday morning coffee with us at Startup Zone! Bring your business ideas, questions, and grievances and get some great advice from local, like-minded entrepreneurs! No registration required. Our special guest on May 10th is Chris VanHorn, founder of Airbly!     

Growing a business takes people. In the early days, many startups have just one “employee”: the founder. But eventually, many startups and growing businesses hire employees and become, for the first time, an employer. Yet creating an employer-employee relationship carries consequences: the law grants “employees” certain benefits and protections – and imposes on employers certain […]