A corporation or a partnership?

That’s a question facing a lot of founding teams early in their startup life, and it keeps coming up until they finally decide to incorporate.

As with so many business decisions, the correct answer depends on

CompCamp, the group dedicated to teaching teens to code, has issued the following press release on its Girls Tech League championship this weekend:

Halifax, NS, April 9, 2013 – The Girls Tech League, a programing competition for junior high

Pitch Perfect, a spinoff from Halifax consultancy Headspace Design, will make its long-awaited debut in the autumn, after its developers conduct beta tests in the next few months.

The new company allows commercial design consultants and other

The KIRA Awards' Selection Committee yesterday announced the finalists for the 2013 Knowledge Industry Recognition and Achievement award.

The winners of the New Brunswick award will be named at a dinner May 2 at the Fredericton Convention

The Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Network invited me to speak yesterday on a subject I hadn’t thought about much – early adopters. It led me to ask what makes a good early adopter, and who’s the best early adopter in Atlantic Canada.

It was a

DemoCamp Halifax will hold a mini, mid-season event on the night of Sunday, April 21, at Durty Nelly’s Pub on Argyle Street.

Billed as Mini DemoCamp Halifax, the event will feature a keynote address by David Crow, a co-founder of StartupNorth

Equals6, the Halifax-based professional social network for students, will soon launch a crowdfunding scholarship program in which people or organizations can help students raise funds for tuition over the Internet.

The two-year-old company has

The good patrons of Picaroons Brewtique may soon be helping to produce medical compounds each time they hoist a pint at the Fredericton microbrewery.

Picaroons is in talks with Fredericton biotech Mycodev Group Inc. on a plan to help the startup

When I asked Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia what her three priorities will be as the new CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, she paused and answered: attracting talent, bringing women into ITC, and technical education.

Then she added advocacy for digital

Seeets, the Charlottetown startup that operates a web-based rideshare service in the Maritimes, is setting its sights on an expansion into Ontario later this year after improving its existing service.

Seeets is the operator of Maritime Rideshare

When Steve Mallett entered the Launch36 accelerator last autumn, he did so as one of the most experienced entrepreneurs ever to go through the tech development program.

Based in the Saint John suburb of Quispamsis, Mallett is the CEO of

Now that it has signed its first customer and identified its first project, Saint John-based Wicked Ideas, which is devoted to the constructive online debate of controversial issues, is looking for its first group of investors.

The company,