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Wheeler Aims to Clone more Gavins

  • Oct 14, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

One night in July, the dozen members of the first UIT program from Cape Breton University gathered at a restaurant in Sydney and held a mock graduation.

Even though the tech and entrepreneurship program does not grant degrees, they wore academic

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Karma Gaming Launches FrontRow

  • Oct 13, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Karma Gaming, the Halifax startup that develops online games for regulated lotteries, has released FrontRow, the world’s first mobile fantasy sports product built for the lottery industry.

Fantasy sports — in which a fan builds a team from

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FunnelCake’s Client List Growing

  • Oct 13, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Marko Savic believes he has found a missing component from marketing analysis – the ability to track the client’s relationship with your company.

Savic is a co-founder of FunnelCake, a Kitchener-based startup that helps marketing teams to track

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Donovan Named Entrepreneur of Year

  • Oct 13, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Michael Donovan, Executive Chairman of film and television company DHX Media Ltd., has won this year's Entrepreneur Of The Year Atlantic, presented by global consultancy EY at a ceremony in St. John’s on Thursday.

Donovan has been a pioneer in

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Startup Canada in NS Wednesday

  • Oct 13, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Canada on Wednesday will host a pair of events in Halifax, kicking off its cross-country Every Entrepreneur tour.

The Every Entrepreneur event begins tomorrow morning at 9 am at the McInnes Room at Dalhousie University’s Student Union

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Howe Wins by Losing Bet to Martell

  • Oct 09, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

In the hope of making his sales targets a reality, young entrepreneur David Howe accepted a bet from his mentor, Dan Martell. Howe lost but furthered his career in ways he couldn’t have imagined.

Howe met Martell, a serial entrepreneur and angel

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Dal’s Collider Opens its Doors

  • Oct 09, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Dalhousie University’s Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship on Thursday launched the Collider, a space on the second floor of the Killam Library to promote entrepreneurship within the university and the entrepreneur community.

The Collider

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Techtoberfest Set for Next Week

  • Oct 09, 2015
  • Scott Moreira

Techtoberfest, the annual tech conference put on by Communitech, returns Oct. 13 and 14 with events that will connect startups with venture capitalists and feature Oktoberfest trimmings and festivities.

The two-day event is set to draw 250

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Livingston Justifies Kik’s Valuation

  • Oct 08, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

If you ask Ted Livingston what makes Kik Interactive worth a billion dollars – which someone did during a discussion at University of Waterloo Wednesday night – the answer eventually comes down to its “killer demographic.”

Waterloo-based Kik

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Laforge Builds Farm of the Future

  • Oct 08, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

You could say Rock Laforge operates the dairy farm of the future, and that’s why he received the 2015 New Brunswick Bioscience Achievement Award from BioNB.

A fourth-generation farmer from Saint-Andre (50 kilometres southeast of Edmundston),

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Second ProductCamp Set for Oct. 24

  • Oct 08, 2015

ProductCamp Atlantic, the one-day networking and mentoring session for product managers, will return for a second year on Saturday, Oct. 24.

ProductCamp is a loosely organized get-together in which product managers, marketing professionals and

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Ruffolo Sees Startup Group In Months

  • Oct 07, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

John Ruffolo is leading an active drive to start an association for growth-stage startups in Canada and expects the body will be up and running in a few months.

After floating the idea online recently, the CEO of OMERS Ventures has identified a

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