I had a whirlwind visit to St. John’s last week, touring the new Genesis facility and delivering my presentation on Entrevestor’s 2017 startup data. Here are three things I observed during the trip:
1. There are a LOT of new companies.
The St. John’s ecosystem is accelerating its production of new companies. The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, has now been going for a couple of years. It is proving adept at gathering MUN students with ideas and marshalling them through the first stages of launching a company. What’s more, these new companies can often find an incubator once