The Business Resilience Program Launches in the City of Richmond We’re excited to announce that the City of Richmond’s Economic Development office, in cooperation with Spring Activator, has launched the Business Resilience Program to businesses and entrepreneurs in the Richmond community. The program aims to help small businesses recover from …
The Challenge for Entrepreneurs in 2020 It’s been a challenging few months for business everywhere. We’d like to start by recognizing the hard work being done by everyone to continue providing valuable services and resources to our respective communities. Since the beginning of the crisis and economic downturn, we’ve been …
Finding A New Normal: Leading Your Business Through Times of Uncertainty ► Register to rewatch here With a pandemic at our door, navigating business in this amount of uncertainty requires an approach that includes a reset of your business plan. This session will help you find your new normal and …
At Spring, we are excited to be welcoming ten impact-driven entrepreneurs to our fourth intake of our IMPACT Startup Visa Program (ISV). For the first component of the program, our global entrepreneurs will be tuning into the program from the safety and comfort of their own homes as a result …
Spring, along with many other businesses, is striving to continue evolving the provision of its services in a manner appropriate during the time of COVID-19. We seek to provide our programming and support safely without compromising on our standards of quality and excellence. The IMPACT Startup Visa (ISV) Accelerator Program, …
Dear Spring Community: We’re living in wild and different times right now with COVID-19 (Coronavirus). For most of us, this global pandemic has affected both our daily lives and the work we do as we’re trying to adapt and learn to work remotely. Like many other teams across the world, …
In the entrepreneurial world, funding is about helping you accelerate scale. It allows you to rapidly increase investment in key areas of the business so that you can move faster than if you funded through your own money and/or revenue. That being said, not every company is fundable. Here’s what …
There are a variety of reasons for investors to invest, but a key factor is ROI (Return on Investment). At the seed stage, they’re taking a lot of risks and it’s common for them to see over 80% of their portfolio companies fail before turning a profit. To make it …
When it comes to funding a business, raising from investors seems to be a popular option. But it’s not the only one! As you launch and grow your business you want to consider all possible opportunities – also known as non-dilutive options because they don’t involve giving up equity – …
The City of Richmond Economic Development Office in collaboration with Spring is pleased to be presenting The Future of Richmond: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop Series. This Series will connect entrepreneurs with information, access to resources and support to help with common challenges for startups – including raising capital, commercialization and …
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, and as a global team we’d like to extend this acknowledgement to all those who have historically stewarded and nurtured the lands we live, work, and play on today.