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Bait Savour Looking for Partner
Enjoying media attention that few entrepreneurs receive, Vince Stuart is looking for a ``major equity partner’’ for his patented Bait Savour, a device that allows fishermen to reset their lobster trap while it is underwater.
Bait Savour, which
Celebrating Launch36 Demo Day
The Launch36 Demo Day, which Propel ICT is hosting Tuesday night in Dieppe, is such a big deal that we’re doing something at Entrevestor that we haven’t done in all the years, er, months we’ve been publishing.
We'll be attending the extravaganza
The Maturing Tech Sector
Here’s the state of play in East Coast Tech in the past 24 hours: four established companies in Nova Scotia issued announcements about business growth; and 11 startups are preparing for their groundbreaking Demo Day in New Brunswick next week.
Tech Leaders back CompCamp
The following is the text of a press release we put out yesterday for CompCamp Halifax.
CompCamp, a technology camp for teenagers, is pleased to announce that several leading digital enterprises in Nova Scotia will fund scholarships to the camp
Halifax’s Young MedTech Cluster
The latest issue of Progress Magazine is out, and it features my column on the MedTech sector in Halifax.
The column examines some of the factors that have led to the creation of so many companies that make medical or dental devices. It also
In Praise of Minnesota’s ETCs
A Halifax businessman I respect recently told me there was no way the Nova Scotia government would ever extend equity tax credits (or a reasonable facsimile) to people living outside the province. It was a non-starter, he said, because the
Invest NB Got It Right on Radian6
Invest New Brunswick’s decision to contribute $3.8 million in payroll rebates to Radian6 created minor rumblings in the tweetosphere yesterday as tweeters debated the wisdom of government aid to businesses.
First the facts: Economic Development
A Call to Arms for CompCamp
Rose Behar and Michael Johnston are the kind of entrepreneurs you want to cheer for, because society in the region will likely benefit from their venture.
I had the pleasure last week of meeting Behar and Johnston when I was invited by
The Two Sides of Innovation in PEI
When an old friend saw Rory Francis breakfasting at a Charlottetown restaurant recently and noted that the venerable civil-servant-turned-industry-mentor hadn’t retired yet, Francis just smiled. “I’m having too much fun,” said the Executive
Compilr: 1 Year after SeedCamp NY
A lot has happened to Patrick Hankinson’s company Compilr since he took it to SeedCamp New York last summer, and he’s now hoping other Atlantic Canadian tech entrepreneurs can relive that experience.
As I wrote in one of the first blogs in
Startups and Higher Education
I received an interesting blog Thursday from Peter Halpin, Executive Director of the Association of Atlantic Universities, extolling the impact the region’s post-secondary institutions have had on innovation and R&D in the region.
Yes, it’s been
DemoCamp Seeking IT Startups
Milan Vrekic, the CEO of TitanFile, is looking for IT startups to present their technology at the second annual DemoCamp Halifax at Dalhousie University on the evening of Sunday, September 23.
DemoCamp is an opportunity for the tech community to
