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Compilr Revs Up the Revenues

  • May 21, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Patrick Hankinson is not a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve, but he does post his business metrics by his door.

Hankinson is a soft-spoken entrepreneurial whiz who runs Compilr, an online development environment that allows users to learn,

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We Need Computer Science Reform

  • May 21, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Jonathan Robichaud recently completed a private tutorial on writing computer code with Java-Script, and he can’t wait to move on to Python.

In his Java-Script course, he received a full day of lessons from Connor Bell, a Dalhousie computer

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JKN Spun Off To Be Private Company

  • May 17, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

A decade after starting as a research project at Holland College in Charlottetown, the Justice Knowledge Network is being spun off into a for-profit eLearning company called JKN Inc.

Executive Director Sandy Sweet said in an interview yesterday

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ABK’s O’Connor Is a Medtech Star

  • May 16, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

In the midst of interviewing ABK Biomedical's new CEO Pat O’Connor on the Halifax company’s direction, I realized that the story I should write was about O’Connor himself.

Last October, the company announced it had raised $1.25 million in

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AIF Backs BioVectra, Island Abbey

  • May 15, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Charlottetown drug manufacturer BioVectra Inc. said Tuesday it had received a $3 million funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Atlantic Innovation Fund, which will help to finance a $5 million expansion project for the company.

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Build Ventures Eyes 1st Investment

  • May 15, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Build Ventures, the new Atlantic Canadian venture capital fund, launched Tuesday with a new name, new headquarters, new co-manager and $48.5 million in committed capital.

And soon it will have its first investment in its portfolio.

“We’re in

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Touesnard’s WordPress Data Tool

  • May 14, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Brad Touesnard exemplifies a segment of the startup world that is too rarely celebrated — the folks who work on their own or in small groups and soldier on from one venture to another until something works out.

Three weeks ago, the Cape Breton

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BioNova Honours Bioimaging Group

  • May 13, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

There’s been so much going on in East-Coast-Startup-Land recently that it would be difficult to pick out just one good news story of the year. But the folks at BioNova believe they have one. It began with a seeming disaster.

Last week, BioNova,

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RTV Seeks $230,000 in Crowdfunding

  • May 13, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

There’s nothing uncommon about a crowdfunding campaign to raise a few thousand dollars for a good cause, but RTV Group of Saint John is raising the bar with its charitable crowdfunding campaign.

The company, which is trying to battle drunk

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Computer Education To Be Rallying Cry

  • May 10, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

After attending business dinners in Halifax and Fredericton last week, it’s becoming apparent that two themes are developing in the evolution of the regional start-up community.

First, the tech crowd is going to become a pillar of the overall

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Solving Farmers’ Pain From Above

  • May 09, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Resson Technologies has an idea for fighting crop disease that is so simple that it makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.

I first heard about the company at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru Boot Camp in January,

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Crowdfunding: Carol Moreira’s Novel

  • May 08, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

A bit of news: Entrevestor Editor Carol Moreira will release her second Young Adult novel this summer, and we’re inviting all our readers to check out her crowdfunding campaign to pre-order the book and contribute to the project.

Membrane is a

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