I completely agree that you both have to emphasize the ecosystem as well as the ability within the constraints of government support and government programs to actually have a couple of failures or two under your belt.
What we try to do is build that ecosystem from a young age all the way through to university and beyond, working in the community, as Wendy mentioned, with tech hubs like Communitech and Notman House in Montreal, but starting at an earlier age with programs, like Ladies Learning Code and Actua's Codemakers, to get them interested in the technology and working within a community of peers so they have those shared experiences.
The opportunities—