Driving your startup.
Where Do I Begin
Where are you on your entrepreneurial journey?
Find helpful resources, offerings, community support and partners that fit you.
Idea Formation
Ideating: You have entrepreneurial ambition and/or a potential scalable product or service idea for a big enough target market.
Concepting: You are defining vision and mission with initial strategy and key milestones for the next few years.
Lean Startup
Committing: You have a committed, skills balanced co-founding team with shared vision, values and attitude.
Validating: You are iterating and testing assumptions for your solution, demonstrating initial user growth and/or revenue.
Scale Up for Growth
Scaling: Your focus is on KPI based measurable growth in users, customers and revenues and/or market traction and market share in a big or fast growing target market.
Establishing: You've achieved great growth that can be expected to continue.
Our Community
The innovation community is designed to guide entrepreneurs at different stages of their journey, from formation to validation to growth. Learn more about this community of passionate professionals who are supporting that journey and maximizing the success of each entrepreneur.
Services
We're working to make Calgary a global hub for startups and innovation and, whether you're looking for mentorship, advice or space to work on your startup, our efforts are focused on providing you with the right guidance to fit your current place in the startup journey.
Programs & events
We love founders and we believe that helping you build a strong foundation as an entrepreneur is key in helping you accelerate the success of your startup. Our programs are vetted by one question, “is it founder friendly?” This ensures we always deliver content and help based on your best interests.
Upcoming Events
2020 East Village Street Fair
July 1, 2020EV Street Fair: Shaping Technology for Our Future
Join the East Village Neighbourhood Association (EVNA) as we host the 9th Annual
‘East Village Street Fair’. Our visitors will enjoy a huge variety of festivities, strolling
between events at the New Public Library, National Music Centre and Fort Calgary. The East Village
321 Growth Academy: Marketing Kickstarter
June 17, 2020Marketing Kickstarter is our introductory course for founders and team members that want to better understand marketing – and how they can best support their company’s revenue goals. In a half-day (or evening), you’ll learn what marketing is and where it fits in your organization, and what your company can do to undertake marketing that drives revenue.
321 Growth Academy: Sales Kickstarter
June 10, 2020Sales Kickstarter is our introductory course for founders and their team members that want to better understand sales – and how they can best support their company’s sales efforts. In a rapid-fire 4 hours, you’ll learn what sales is and where it fits in your organization, and what your company must do to drive sales growth.
Have An Idea?
We want to hear!
Let us help you on your startup and entrepreneurial journey.
Looking for Startup or Office Space?
Tell Us About Your Space Needs!
From virtual space to coworking to your own square footage, we're here to support the physical growth of your startup.
