Canadian Startup Visa Program on The Startup Talk Podcast

Canadian Startup Visa Program on The Startup Talk Podcast

Taking a deep dive into the hopes and realities of the Canadian Startup Visa Program with Siavash Shekarian of Shekairan Law. With lots of immigration and Startup Visa Q&A; at the end.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

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SPEAKERS

Announcer, Siavash Shekarian of Shekarian Law, The Startup Coach

Announcer 

Direct from the sixth world renowned Canada’s largest city, with Canada’s biggest thinkers, visionaries and hustlers. This is startup talk featuring the founders, funders, innovators and community leaders who’ve led Canada’s startup ecosystem right here in Toronto. You’ll hear the challenges, the failures, the successes, Toronto’s StartUp podcast gives you the full story direct from the entrepreneurs and influencers who’ve made a difference. Now, the host of startup talk, the founder of TorontoStarts this startup coach.

The Startup Coach 

Welcome back to startup talk. I’m your host, the startup coach and founder of TorontoStarts one of the largest startup communities in Canada. And with me today is Siavash Shekarian of Shekarian Law . And today we’re talking about the Canadian startup visa program. welcome Siavash.

Siavash Shekarian of Shekarian Law 

Thank you very much, Craig. Happy Monday. Thanks for having me.

The Startup Coach 

It’s a beautiful Monday so far. And it’s great to have you. And it’s always great to talk about immigration in the startup visa program. But first of all, why don’t you tell us about Shakira in law?

Siavash Shekarian of Shekarian Law 

Shekarian Law is a law firm. We are a team of 11 people, a law firm with a very, very intense business focus. And our target market is helping foreign entrepreneurs come to Canada and set up or buy businesses here.

The Startup Coach 

So what is the startup visa program? And why does it matter?

Siavash Shekarian of Shekarian Law 

Okay, we’re we’re starting with the most difficult question, right? Because what are the start? We’ll start with Visa is obvious. It’s a misnomer in the startup visa program, because these are usually goes to a permit that you go somewhere temporarily, but the startup visa program in Canada, it’s a permanent resident program, but we can get to the book before talking about what is the startup visa program? What’s the startup? Craig, I start up is really any sort of new business or new entity that can scale well, like we don’t differentiate specifically in our community. So if you’re a small business that doesn’t want to scale behind a couple 100,000, we’re here to support you. But if you’re looking at a startup visa program, you’re probably looking at something that can scale to a massive level 10 million 100 million plus potential, otherwise, you’re probably not going to get the support that designated organization. Well, hopefully, because that’s exactly what the government was thinking with the startup visa program. They’re saying, we don’t really define startup. And nobody can really define startup mean,