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A new course that helps entrepreneurs cope with the stresses of forming their own businesses has got off to a promising start at the University of New Brunswick.

Organizers hope that Entrepreneurial Resilience, which is a full-credit course, will help students avoid falling prey to common problems like sleeplessness, poor exercise and eating habits, and social withdrawal.  

“Sleep is number

Propel, the regional tech accelerator, is looking for an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in Halifax, and that opening headlines our Job of the Week column today.

The pan-regional organization offers a virtual accelerator called Incite – Phase 1 helps entrepreneurs find their product-market fit; and Phase 2 helps them to scale and gain international markets. As well as the online curriculum, Propel has

St. John’s-based Verafin has been named to the 2020 Narwhal List, becoming only the second Atlantic Canadian company to be named to the log of Canadian companies that raise a lot of capital quickly.

Verafin made the list on the strength of its $515 million equity-and-debt round announced in September, the biggest round of development capital ever closed by an Atlantic Canadian company. Halifax’s

Halifax-based Densitas, whose software helps assess the density of breasts during mammograms, has announced that Prince Edward Island has become the second province, after Nova Scotia, to integrate its software across its screening program.

The Densitas software -- named Densitas densityai --  provides an automated mechanism for quantifying and recording breast tissue density, a risk factor for

Ross Arsenault, a Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer at Halifax oceantech company Ashored Innovations, has won the $10,000 first prize at the Canadian finals of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.

Arsenault, who is now completing the Masters of Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation program at Saint Mary’s University, received the award at a competition in Toronto last month.

Trip Ninja has struck a partnership with Britain’s A1 Travel Deals under which the Halifax company’s FareStruture technology will be integrated with Globehunters.com, a subsidiary of A1 Travel serving the U.K.

Trip Ninja is a software-as-a-service company that has built a travel planning and booking platform to help travellers book the cheapest routes for multi-city travel. FareStructure

Having adopted a new structure over the past year, Island Water Technologies is hoping to double installations of its Sentry unit this year, focusing on its key markets of California and the U.K.

Charlottetown-based IWT last year took on capital to finance a restructuring, so it became a holding company for two main subsidiaries. Sentry uses a real-time bio-electrode sensor to collect and

The undergraduate team from Saint Mary’s University finished third this weekend in the New England finals of the international Venture Capital Investment Competition, or VCIC

The team finished one point behind the silver medalists from Cornell, while the team from Dartmouth College won the event.

The VCIC is an international competition in which teams of graduate and undergraduate students

Thank you to all those who have filled in our survey – the response has been fantastic! We’ve received 105 completed surveys in just a few weeks, meaning we’ll be donating more than $1,000 to Australian wildfire relief.

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