The new executive-in-residence at University of New Brunswick teaches his students more than how to develop, fund and sell a product.

David Wagner can also teach them the importance of luck and timing, and that sometimes they go against you.

For almost 10 years until October 2015, Wagner was President and CEO of Fredericton-based Atlantic Hydrogen Inc., a company that developed the CarbonSaver

C100, the organization that helps Canadian startups navigate Silicon Valley, has launched a program of ambassadors across Canada.

The San Francisco-based group announced last week that it has named a group of “well-connected ambassadors” in major Canadian cities who can identify and engage the most promising startups in their region.

Comprised largely of Canadians working in the tech community

This week in Jobs of the Week, we are featuring three positions from the Entrevestor Job Board that feature development and content marketing skills.

NewAE Technology of Halifax is looking for a software development programmer. DPL is looking for a content marketing specialist in Moncton, and Sentinel Alert of St. John’s is looking for a senior full stack developer to work remotely from anywhere in Canada.

NewAE Technology develops open-source hardware and software solutions for performing security analysis of embedded computer systems.

DPL is a data-management company out based out of

Corporate and statup communities should embrace a new collaborative model for innovation that will hasten the next wave of technology, Coca-Cola Co.’s head of innovation told a Fredericton audience Wednesday night.

David Butler told the R3 Gala that corporations and startups operate in dramatically different environments. So the best way for established businesses to nurture startups and benefit

On Monday, Volta Labs announced that Jesse Rodgers will be the new CEO of the Halifax incubator for tech companies. Rodgers will be moving from Waterloo Region to fill the position next month.

Here are five thoughts on the appointment of the former director of the incubator/accelerators at the Universities of Waterloo and Toronto:

1. The pool of mentorship in Atlantic Canada instantly

InNetwork, the Halifax marketing startup that helps clients spread their messages through influencers, has been acquired by Barrie, Ont.-based gShift.

GShift announced the all-stock deal in a statement Monday, but declined to place any value on the transaction or say what proportion of the enlarged company will be held by InNetwork shareholders.

GShift was founded in 2009 by Krista LaRiviere and Chris Adams to enhance search engine optimization through big data and predictive analytics. It has now chosen to merge with InNetwork, which uses a network of influencers to help clients amplify

Halifax’s Volta Labs has named Jesse Rodgers, the founding director of both Velocity and the Creative Destruction Lab, as its new CEO.

The startup house, which offers office space and mentoring to tech statups, has been looking for a CEO since last summer. With the hiring of Rogers, Executive Director Melody Pardoe will become the organization’s Chief Operating Officer.

“We’re entering into our

A new Charlottetown firm that helps game and app developers increase income has tripled its staff in six months and plans to double it again by Canada Day.

As it is now structured, RevIQ is more a service company than a conventional product-based startup, and its nine-member team helps game and app developers use their data to develop more successful sales strategies.

The problem the company

Atlantic Canada last week hosted a flurry of youth and student entrepreneurship events, with hundreds of participants and cash prizes totaling thousands of dollars.

The highest profile event was YES Atlantic, or the Youth Entrepreneur Summit, in Fredericton, which attracted about 300 delegates from across the region. But there were also student pitching events in Fredericton and Wolfville, and

Today in Job of the Week, we are featuring an opening for Manager of Technical Development at Sequence Bio of St. John’s.

Founded in 2013, Sequence works with partners to analyze vast sets of data from gene pools to get a deeper understanding of which people are at the greatest risk of contracting a disease. It recently signed an agreement with Memorial University to use the university’s genetic