Starting a business in Canada can involve a number of funding options and grants.

Growth and innovation funds are a good option – government funding.

Pre-commercial projects can get funding this way in order to get off the ground and then make money later.

It is up to you to make it sustainable.

Canadians pay alot of tax and this is a way to “fill out a form and get a chunk back…”

You need to deal with the beaurocracy but you can get your money back.

Gov’t funding can be very helpful when you are pushing hard on the innovation front.

Teleafund, Bell New Media Fund, etc.

New media is growing and still new so these gov’t agencies are trying to figure out how to do it well, but it’s still bumpy.

Applying for these grants takes time and doesn’t always work in the high speed new media industry.

SHRED funding.

Many times, Canadians will not take home grown “things” seriously until the US says it’s good.

Due to the reality of Canada, we’ve lucked into some very relevamt skills and capabilities since we have had to get good at exporting our “stuff” as well as dealing with crazy geography, etc. Broadband penetration is an example of this since we had to roll it out in order to deal with our geography and population distribution.