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Venture for Canada Deadline Sunday

  • Feb 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Zed’s Entrepreneurship Education

  • Feb 27, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

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

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A Look at Failures in 2014

  • Feb 26, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

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

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WaitShare Aims at Clinic Wait Times

  • Feb 25, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Press Release: CBMC Deadline

  • Feb 25, 2015

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

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McRock, NBIF in $3M RtTech Deal

  • Feb 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Press Release: Breakthru Finalists

  • Feb 24, 2015

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

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NB BioMatrix Prepares for Q4 Launch

  • Feb 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Pond Offers $500K for Sales School

  • Feb 20, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Jutla Uses Startup Boom to Lure Talent

  • Feb 20, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

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

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Summit Urges Entrepreneurial Teaching

  • Feb 20, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Nova Scotia’s Next VC Fund

  • Feb 19, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

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

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