Ed Leach talks about the upcoming Canada’s Business Model Competition by comparing it to the situation that used to exist in Canadian college basketball – the championships were in Halifax every year.

Dalhousie University – at which Leach

As I ended a conversation Tuesday with an entrepreneur who was once funded by the First Angel Network, he said, “The worst thing that could come out of this would be for FAN to shut down.”

This is the controversy that erupted Tuesday when David

The fact that RtTech Software CEO Pablo Asiron has travelled this year to Kazakhstan, Australia and the Philippines to meet clients and sales prospects shows how successful the New Brunswick company has been in international markets.

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Charlottetown-based drug-discovery company Neurodyn Inc. tapped an unlikely source of capital when it announced its $1.5-million to $2-million funding round last week. It raised money from something called a “home office.” It also revealed a new

ViewPoint Realty Services, a Bedford,N.S.,-based online property data and brokerage site, is reviewing its strategy with the goal of leveraging its highly successful website to draw more customers to its brokerage business.

ViewPoint is best

Sitting in a coffee shop on the St. Mary’s University campus, Dawn Jutla is almost dwarfed by the stack of pamphlets promoting the new program she is launching – the Master’s of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

The MTEI program at the

Strengthening its finances and team, Cape Breton healthcare administration company Health Outcomes Worldwide has landed $1.5 million in follow-on funding from Nova Scotia Business Inc. weeks after it hired Ted Maclean as Chief Executive Officer.

Becky Davison sees a massive market for her line of clothes for people with arthritis, and she is now trying to execute a strategy for selling it to consumers.

The MBA student at Saint Mary’s University is the CEO of DressEase, an adaptive

Neurodyn Inc., the Charlottetown biotech developing early treatments for neurological diseases, has closed a $1.5-million round of funding from a range of U.S. and Canadian investors and could bump the total up to $2 million.

The company will

Now that its first mobile game Wraithborne has been downloaded by 200,000 users, Alpha Dog Games is looking for as much as $1 million to help develop its next game.

The Bedford, N.S., game developer launched Wraithborne for mobile devices

Entering its fourth year of existence, G2 Research is branching out from GPS analytics for law enforcement to new sectors such as fleet management, security for companies using shippers, and high-risk offender monitoring.

The Dartmouth company

When Brian Lowe was a young man looking to sell his Nova Scotia environmental services companies, he had two offers on the table.

In the end, he sold to Laidlaw Environmental Services of South Carolina because Laidlaw was able to offer cash and,