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Helping People Order Pizzas Online

  • Sep 16, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Matt Stewart and Rob Myers should be poster boys for holding down business development costs.

Last year, the two residents of Sydney won $10,000 from the initial Spark Cape Breton competition, which Innovacorp held to encourage startups on the

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ROV3D Launched at Oceans ‘14

  • Sep 15, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

As the Oceans ’14 conference gets under way in St. John’s today, a local startup will debut the 3D underwater visualization system it has been working on for several years.

Whitecap Scientific has developed a product called ROV3D, which creates

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Highlights of Entrevestor-EF Event

  • Sep 15, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The problem of attracting early adopters once again showed itself at the Entrevestor-Entrepreneurs’ Forum luncheon in St. John’s on Thursday, even though it hadn’t been invited.

We had a great turnout and a truly superb meal at the Junior Common

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Press Release: Norex in Japan

  • Sep 15, 2014

Norex, the Halifax web development company, has issued the following press release:

Halifax based innovation and web firm Norex presenting at the world’s largest AdTech conference in Tokyo

Halifax, NS -- September 9, 2014 – It is not every day

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Profile: Rayworth’s Road Uphill

  • Sep 12, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Failure isn’t something most of us celebrate, but Kathleen Rayworth said her failures help her to be an effective executive director of the Entrepreneurs’ Forum, a regional organization that links entrepreneurs with seasoned advisers from the

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Invest Atlantic to Focus on Angels

  • Sep 11, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The fifth annual Invest Atlantic conference will shine a spotlight on a problem that hounds every startup community — how to encourage more wealthy individuals to invest in local young companies?

Since it began in 2010, Invest Atlantic has

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Assessing the Lean Canvas

  • Sep 10, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When Claire Ciel Zimmerman entered the Summ’er Up entrepreneurship program at Dalhousie University this summer, she hadn’t even heard of a lean canvas.

The co-founder of the magazine publishing startup Bootstrap had to learn how to use the nine

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Press Release: BioNova Semi-Finalists

  • Sep 10, 2014

BioNova, the life sciences association in Nova Scotia, has issued the following press release:  

BioInnovation Challenge Semi-Finalists Announced

Halifax, NS -- September 9, 2014 -- The semi-finalists have been chosen for the 2014 edition of

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HWKI’s Wearable Hockey Camera

  • Sep 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When Shea Kewin and Tim Priamo were playing hockey together as children in Guelph, Ont., they couldn’t have known they’d one day form a company to help players improve their game.

The two former teammates are the co-founders of HWKI, which has

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Press Release: CelluFuel Funding

  • Sep 09, 2014

Cellufuel, a Halifax renewable energy company, and PwC Corporate Finance have released the following statement:

CelluFuel raises $5 million in capital, launches demonstration scale project

PwC Corporate Finance Inc. acted as lead advisor on

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Education Institution Report is Here

  • Sep 08, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

We’re pleased today to release our third Entrevestor Intelligence report of 2014, which focuses on the contribution of educational institutions to the startup community.

Titled “Our Back-to-School Issue”, the report highlights several programs

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Profile: ‘Notably Candid’ Nagtegaal

  • Sep 05, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Toon Nagtegaal is ready to take TheNextPhase to the next phase.

The notably candid Dutchman behind the three-day workshop that makes entrepreneurs sweat, and occasionally cry, is developing a new program that would engage startups over a longer

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