Our greatest hope today is that your holidays are happy and that your undertakings in 2015 will be fruitful and fun.

For many of us in the Atlantic Canadian startup family, 2014 was great year. The biggest achievement was probably PropelICT crushing its target for Launch36, but it was not alone. There was the $60 million funding by Verafin, and exits by UserEvents, Compilr, Newpace and G2 Research. There was CAIP funding for PropelICT and the PEI BioAlliance. There was the inaugural Startup Empire.

There were setbacks, a few companies that hit the wall, and the ongoing angst over the SR&ED program.

But more than anything, there were thousands of founders and employees booting up their computers each and every morning and fighting endlessly to push their projects uphill. They do so diligently, creatively and above all joyfully. It’s remarkable to be part of such a happy and productive community of people.

The image above embodies our own feelings at this time of the year. It shows our Entrevestor Christmas tree ornament that our daughter Cat made for us last year. She was then just beginning her career in entrepreneurship with her 3D Design and Printing company, Adalay 3D. That ornament makes up 100 percent of the swag we’ve produced for Entrevestor, and we’re really fond of it.

Entrevestor itself has had a tremendous year in 2014, and we’re getting ready for a thoroughly splendid 2015. We’ll have some announcements about new initiatives that we hope you’ll be excited about.

This is our last post of 2014, so we’d like to close by thanking all of you for following us this year and wishing you and your family a happy holidays.

See you in the new year.