By Joseph Mathieu
Mark Dhillon doesn’t have to tout the efforts that led to his MBA from Carleton’s Sprott School of Business or a gig at a top entrepreneur incubator – his impressive resume speaks for him.
“I got lucky,” maintains the Gloucester native about his induction as a 2016 fellow in this year’s Venture for Canada (VFC) program. The incubator has just a three per cent success rate among candidates and Dhillon bested more than 1,700 other applicants to get in.
“It’s basically a huge community coming together to try build a better economy for Canada,” says Dhillon.
Founded in 2014, Venture for Canada bridges the gap between the brightest university graduates and promising startups across the country. The five-week training camp for this year’s 58 fellows is as intensive as its six-month application process.
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