Mark Hobbs and Chris Kolmatycki knew they were on to something with FundMetric when clients said they would sign up for the product that helps charities improve their fundraising before it was even completed.

The two former advertising execs realized a few years ago that charities they were working with needed an online tool that would help them communicate with donors at the best time possible, and help them to organize their fundraising campaigns.

They gravitated toward the startup world with the encouragement of several people, including Milan Vrekic, the Executive Director of the

When Canada’s Business Model Competition was held at Dalhousie University in March, the leading Atlantic Canadian entry was a team from Memorial University that had only been working together for two months.

StudentFresh is a platform designed to link up businesses needing contract work with students that have the skills to provide the work. And it is working toward a product that will tell businesses instantly how other employers have rated the student’s work.

“From talking to businesses, we found that they wanted to hire based on talent that’s validated by previous work,” Co-Founder

Two years after the company he co-founded was bought out by Salesforce.com, Gavin Uhma is giving back to the community with a new educational initiative that will help teach aspiring tech entrepreneurs how to build companies.

Uhma is still the chief technical officer of GoInstant, a Halifax company that has developed tools that allow people on different computers to work together on the same screen. But in his spare time, he’s working with others to develop an online course to help teach technology and entrepreneurship.

“We’re looking to people within the business community, proven

Compilr, a Halifax startup that teaches people how to code, has been acquired by lynda.com, a Carpinteria, Calif.-based online education company, for an undisclosed sum.

Founder Patrick Hankinson said last September he was willing to sell all or part of Compilr, and that he would be willing to continue with the company as a standalone company if he didn’t receive the price he wanted. Obviously, Lynda.com stepped forward with the right price.

Founded in 1995, lynda.com provides individual and enterprise customers with access to the lynda.com video library, which provides training in

The third Starting Lean course at Dalhousie University wrapped up on Thursday evening with the announcement that one team, Hindsight Health Inc. would attend the International Business Model Competition in Provo, Utah, next month.

For the last year and a half, business professors Mary Kilfoil and Ed Leach have been ushering teams of young entrepreneurs through the program that has virtually no lectures or exams. Its only requirement is that participants use lean methodology to begin a business. It has helped to launch such developing startups as Analyze Re, Spring Loaded Technologies and

You might expect a course in entrepreneurship to be based in a business school, but the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton melds talents and disciplines by teaching entrepreneurship in the engineering faculty. This summer, the school will further expand the reach of its entrepreneurship diploma program by establishing a summer institute for arts, technology and business students.

 “We

CBC viewers across Canada will soon learn how educational programs in Estonia and Finland are serving as the model for an experiment in computer education for Maritime schoolchildren.

The national broadcaster will soon present Code Kids, the collaborative work of Fredericton-based tech evangelist David Alston and Greg Hemmings, the founder of Hemmings House film studio in Saint John.

Not

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth maker of multichannel marketing platforms, issued the following press release:

Dalhousie Co-op Student Creates Bus Time Program Using SimplyCast 360 Customer Flow Communication Platform

The innovative Ride On program allows users to text a number to receive detailed information about bus departure times on their mobile phone.

SimplyCast challenges each co-op student with a unique project to help build leadership skills and grow the company.

The SimplyCast 360 Customer Flow Communication platform is ideal for solving communication challenges in a variety of

ClinicServer, a Saint John-based company that helps health clinics digitize their operations and records, has closed its deal to be taken over by Biosign Technologies Inc., a publicly traded Toronto company with complementary businesses.

The buyer said on New Year’s Eve it would pay $1.96 million – all in stock except for $75,000 in cash -- for the Saint John company. The deal, which closed Monday, allows ClinicServer to retain its brand and New Brunswick headquarters and operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Biosign.

Biosign, whose stock trades on the Toronto Venture Exchange,

Four arms of the Canadian military have licensed 3-D training software from a Halifax startup to help personnel learn how to work with machines and equipment.

Modest Tree Media Inc. announced this month that the Canadian military is the first customer of its Modest 3D software, which is designed to help users write and update 3D interactive training programs. Having met with representatives of the military at the I/ITSEC defence and aerospace conference in Orlando, Fla., in December, the company met several times with personnel and ended up licensing the product to the army, navy, air