Entrepreneurship Training Program

 

Memorial’s Entrepreneurship Training Program (ETP) is an education program for graduate students interested in starting a business and learning the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Through the ETP's Discover and Develop programs, students build the skills, knowledge, and connections necessary to succeed as entrepreneurs. Learn more about the program here.

"My company wouldn't be here today if not for the Entrepreneurship Training Program... I got so much out of ETP, I almost feel guilty."
- Mark Gauci (ETP '17), CEO & President, ABA Access Inc. 

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The ETP Develop-Winter 2026 (February 3- March 31, 2026), which is annually organized during the Winter semester-certificates are provided. The Develop program will provide participants with core entrepreneurship themes and problem-solving skills. It represents training opportunities for participants to turn their business ideas into reality. Its training contents include Naming & Branding, Legal ABCs of Starting a Business, Sales, Marketing & Social Media, Managing Growth, Accounting for Business, Financial Management, Intellectual Property and Commercialization, and Next Steps – Resources, Supports & Planning. This certificate-provided ETP program has two main components: Workshop Modules (Theoretical lessons, self-study, online through Brightspace and asynchronous) and Special Topic Sessions (Practical lessons, hybrid mode and synchronous).

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Dr. Hanh Do, ETP Coordinator at dtmaihanh@mun.ca.

 

On December 17, 2025, the Entrepreneurship Training Program, Discover-Fall 2025, hosted the ETP Closing Ceremony and Networking Event. Many thanks to our guest speakers and representatives from BDC, CBDC, CSE, Genesis, MCE, PropelICT, RIO, WhiteRock NL & Work Global Canada Inc., for kindly celebrating and awarding certificates to ETP students and being speakers for the session “Resource Support for Entrepreneurship in NL.” Many thanks to our ETP participants for joining us and engaging very highly during our ETP event.

Pictures by Malcolm Odubote.

 

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