My old friend Gail Lethbridge highlighted Entrevestor in this superb column on Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurship on Saturday.

Lethbridge, whose column appears weekly in the Chronicle-Herald, makes the case that entrepreneurship is alive and

In the next few months, a Halifax startup will launch an online learning network that will deepen the relationship between some of the world’s leading personal improvement authors and their legions of followers.

The company, sageCrowd, was

Halifax-based LeadSift, whose software finds sales leads for corporate customers, has signed a distribution agreement with HootSuite, the Vancouver startup that allows people to monitor and manage their social media traffic.

The two companies

Green Power Labs of Dartmouth is celebrating its 10th year of delivering climate analytics to the power industry by launching an ambitious project that could reduce energy consumption in buildings by well over 10 per cent.

Founded in 2003, the

I recently witnessed a pitch by the representative of a Central Canadian biotech company that had a product that sounded spiffy, but damned if I could figure out what the guy was saying. The pitch involved a string of medical jargon—and while I

The Co-Founders of the new Halifax startup Modest Tree Media Inc. want to make printed training manuals — whether for assembling an Ikea bookshelf or operating a state-of-the-art jet engine — a thing of the past.

These entrepreneurs — chief

My latest article for USA Today, which is in today's edition, covers the programs popping up in the U.S. that help Canadian startups – C100, Canadian Entrepreneurs in New England and the Canadian Technology Accelerators.

The story features

Data analytics company Search2Go of Saint John is opening a development office in northern New Brunswick, supported by an investment by former premier Frank McKenna’s Miramichi Technology Fund.

Capitalizing on the boom in big data, Search2Go is

IPSNP Computing, the Saint John company whose software conducts industrial-strength searches of vast numbers of data banks, is looking for a few end-users to beta test its HYDRA product early next year ahead of the full launch in the late summer

Daniel Silver held up a printout of about 15 possible names, bearing varying combinations that featured such words as “Acadia”, “Data”, “Analytics” and “Institute.”

Silver, the Director of the Jodrey School of Computer Science at Acadia

The reception wasn’t great on Atlee Clark’s call from San Francisco, but what came through loud and clear was that C100 is more than ever a vibrant part of the Canadian start-up ecosystem.

The executive director of C100 had no trouble getting

BDC Venture Capital said today it is investing $150,000 each in RUMAnalytics of New Brunswick and Analyze Re of Nova Scotia as part of an agreement with the Launch36 accelerator program.

The venture capital arm of Business Development Bank of