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Venture for Canada Deadline Sunday
The final Fellow application deadline for this year's Venture4Canada cohort is March 1st, 2015.
Venture for Canada is a career accelerator for recent grads, who want to learn how to build a business, while making an impact.
Fellows join a
Zed’s Entrepreneurship Education
After five years of volunteering as a high school entrepreneurship teacher, Robert Zed is working on a new venture of his own, one that will bring entrepreneurship education to many.
Zed, chairman of Triangle Strategies of Halifax, helps a
A Look at Failures in 2014
Entrevestor recently completed its second survey of Atlantic Canadian startups, and one of the striking figures was the number of companies that vanished in 2014.
Here are the basics. Of the 290 companies we surveyed last year, eight were
WaitShare Aims at Clinic Wait Times
Fredericton-based VeroSource Solutions, a tech startup that incorporated last year, has launched its first product WaitShare, a free app that aims to inform the public about wait times at walk-in clinics and emergency rooms.
Though several
Press Release: CBMC Deadline
The Rowe School of Business at Dalhousie University has issued the following press release:
Call for Student Startups: Canada’s Business Model Competition
Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business is hosting Canada’s Business Model
McRock, NBIF in $3M RtTech Deal
RtTech Software, whose state-of-the-art automation helps industrial companies improve manufacturing processes, will announce Tuesday that it has closed a $3-million venture capital round led by the world’s leading industrial Internet of things
Press Release: Breakthru Finalists
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has issued the following press release:
BREAKTHRU FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!
After months of work for our five finalist teams, the idea of becoming entrepreneurs remains a dream. But three of them will become
NB BioMatrix Prepares for Q4 Launch
NB BioMatrix, the New Brunswick cleantech company that won the BioInnovation Challenge last autumn, is developing into a bona fide business by adding staff and planning to launch late this year.
The Saint John company is using nano-technology to
Pond Offers $500K for Sales School
Gerry Pond has offered $500,000 to any university or other body in Atlantic Canada that establishes an academy to teach international sales.
The Co-Founder of Mariner and East Valley Ventures was the 15th panelist to speak on educational reform
Jutla Uses Startup Boom to Lure Talent
Halifax is gaining such a reputation for entrepreneurship that the buzz is helping Dawn Jutla attract mature students to the program she runs at the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University.
Now in its second year, the master of
Summit Urges Entrepreneurial Teaching
Academic, business and political leaders came together in Halifax on Thursday to call for reform in post-secondary education, and including a greater emphasis on teaching entrepreneurship.
The speakers at the Atlantic Leaders Summit organized by
Nova Scotia’s Next VC Fund
One of the overlooked segments of Premier Stephen McNeil’s State of the Province speech last week was his revelation that Nova Scotia will soon proceed with a new public-private venture capital fund.
On Feb. 11, McNeil delivered his address to
