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,

Dylan Mitchell’s creation of PlanAheADD illustrates all that is good in the Atlantic Canadian start-up community. His is the story of someone turning a personal challenge into a business, of a mentor and an angel giving generously to a young

Ten teams of students and entrepreneurs will vie for $10,000 in seed money in Startup Sunday, the highlight of the Halifax Entrepreneurship Expo, which culminates on March 21.

Philip Calvert, the head of Calvert Events and the organizer of this

A loose confederacy of organizations is organizing East Coast Startup Week in Fredericton in late March to encourage entrepreneurs, and they hope it will become an annual event in a different city each year.

Startup Week 2013 will feature Demo

In the continuing effort to encourage women in technological pursuits, the Halifax chapter of Ladies Learning Code will hold its first workshop in the region in April.

Toronto-based Ladies Learning Code is a national not-for-profit organization

Interview Rocket, a Halifax startup that offers interview technology for recruiters and jobseekers, has landed more than $250,000 in funding from the First Angel Network, foreign investors and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

In an

Nathan and Gregory Armstrong, two brothers studying at University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, are working on an intriguing proposition to reduce the cost and environmental footprint of waste-water cleanups.

They want the methane gas

Ryan Keliher walked into Pitch101 in Charlottetown with an idea for a social entrepreneurship venture and walked out with a $500 first prize and an invitation to Invest Atlantic in Halifax in September.

Keliher’s pitch Friday for United World

After a variety of business pursuits, Sarbjyot Bains believes he may have finally found the entrepreneurial venture that can change the world — an educational platform for the world’s most inexpensive tablets.

Born and raised in Gujarat in

Having retired from a career in engineering, Bob Haagensen has devoted the last few years to making GPS surveys more accurate at sea.

Haagensen is the founder of Ocean Wireless Data Systems, or O-Wireless, which has developed technology that

Peter Diamandis has got past linear thinking to grasp the potential of a world in which knowledge is expanding exponentially. And in his brilliant book Abundance he shares his vision of what this brave new world could look like.

The book is

Jean-Philippe Olivier is setting out to start a company that will protect the Maritimes’ glorious beaches from harmful jellyfish and make money doing it.

Olivier is a former restaurateur from northern France who came to New Brunswick about eight