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Five Teams Vie for Breakthru Bonanza

  • Mar 18, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Three New Brunswick companies tomorrow will receive funding of more than $200,000 each as the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation will announce the winners of the 2015 Breakthru competition.

The Breakthru Awards Dinner will be held Thursday

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Startup Job Growth Slowed in 2014

  • Mar 18, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When we published our first Entrevestor Intelligence report of 2014, the numbers that leapt from the page were the job creation figures.  But things have changed in the past year.

The Atlantic Canadian startups we surveyed a year ago told us

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LeadSift Seeks DailyShow Favourite

  • Mar 18, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Known for its verve and creativity, LeadSift has set out to find out which celebrity the world wants to see succeed Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show.

Since Stewart announced last month that he is stepping down, there has been plenty of

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Free2Charge Eyes 10 Units a Month

  • Mar 17, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Pascal deVillers regards the Free2Charge phone-charging stations as a “modern payphone.”

The payphone should have gone the way of the buggy whip, given that most of us carry cellphones. But the batteries tend to go dead in the middle of the day,

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Startup Grind Launches in Halifax

  • Mar 17, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Grind, an event series designed to help entrepreneurs, has launched a Halifax chapter and will hold its first gathering tomorrow with a livestream by famed tech evangelist and author Guy Kawasaki.

The Halifax group is being led by Oleg

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Press Release: ACOA Funds TME

  • Mar 17, 2015

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the University of New Brunswick have issued the following press release:

Government of Canada Supports Dr. J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at UNB

March 16,

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HeadsUp Wins Business Model Contest

  • Mar 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

HeadsUp, a startup dedicated to improving tradespeople’s communications with customers, captured the $25,000 first prize at Canada’s Business Model Competition on Saturday, edging out a strong field of finalists.

The university entrepreneurship

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Atlantic Venture Forum Seeks Pitchers

  • Mar 16, 2015

Atlantic Venture Forum, an investor conference that showcases regional startups, is looking for founders to present at this year’s event June 10 and 11 at the Westin Nova Scotian in Halifax.

Critical Path Group, the company that organizes AVF,

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Palotta To Kick Off Startup Week

  • Mar 13, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When Dan Palotta speaks in Fredericton next week, he will make a passionate plea for more liberal operating rules for non-profits, arguing they can do more good with greater flexibility.

Palotta is one of the keynote speakers at the Social

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Leary Journeys from Bigfoot to B Corp

  • Mar 13, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

There’s nothing predictable about inspiration. Frances Leary’s journey toward becoming a socially responsible entrepreneur began with a study of Bigfoot in the swamps of Louisiana.

Halifax-based Leary established Wired Flare, her online

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Press Release: CBMC Opens Today

  • Mar 13, 2015

Dalhousie University has issued the following press release:

Canada’s Business Model Competition to host student entrepreneurs from universities across Canada

Halifax - Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business is excited to be hosting

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Our Survey Reveals Focus on Sales

  • Mar 12, 2015
  • Peter and Carol Moreira

Startups in Atlantic Canada focused more on selling than hiring in 2014, and business specialists believe the region’s high-growth companies are better off as a result.

Today, we’re releasing our first Entrevestor Intelligence report of 2015,

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