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Sales Soar at Advanced Glazings

  • Mar 18, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Doug Milburn proudly says Advanced Glazings has recovered from the “dark period” it endured after 2007 — and he is not just referring to the global economic slowdown.

The Sydney company is best known for its advanced building product —

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Launch36 Unveils Fourth Cohort

  • Mar 18, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Launch36, the regional tech accelerator, has chosen its fourth cohort of startups, which reveals a diversification away from its core sector of information technology.

The six-member cohort includes the cleantech company Hyton Innovations of

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Press Release: CarbonCure in Seattle

  • Mar 18, 2014

 

Halifax-based green building materials company CarbonCure yesterday released the following press release:

Basalite bringing green concrete to the Emerald City

Basalite leading concrete sustainability with its conversion to CarbonCure 

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Teknically Wins Business Model Event

  • Mar 17, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Teknically, a startup from Wilfrid Laurier University that helps small businesses improve their websites, captured top honours at Canada’s Business Model Competition at Dalhousie University on Saturday.

The company founded by students Andrew

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Metabridge Seeks Our Top Startups

  • Mar 17, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

In its search for the top 15 startups across Canada, Metabridge is inviting applications from Atlantic Canadian companies.

Taking place June 12-13 in Kelowna, B.C., Metabridge is a networking, mentorship and pitching event at which some of the

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Profile: Jordan Smith’s Gritty Ascent

  • Mar 14, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

It’s been nearly five years since Jordan Smith stood on a street corner in Halifax wearing a sign that read: “New Grad, Need Job, advert/market/sales.”

Despite the recession at the time, he got 15 job offers that day, finally choosing a business

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Last Call To Get the Surveys In

  • Mar 14, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

I want to make one final call for founders to get their surveys into us. We plan to calculate everything early next week so we’re putting a Sunday night deadline on the responses.

For those who are interested, we’ve had a fantastic response to

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Stromline Eyes Commercial Market

  • Mar 13, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

This may be the perfect winter to illustrate the value of Jon Fraser and Victoria Smith’s new product. (At least we better hope there’s not a better winter for it.)

With the thermometer plunging and heating bills soaring, there probably won’t be

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Apps Maker ICubemedia’s Sales Soar

  • Mar 12, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

After a few years of producing dozens of smartphone apps, Moncton-based iCubemedia is focusing in on a single suite of small business products that its founder hopes will lift the company to a new level.

For the last five years, the brainchild

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Teaching Green Building Practices

  • Mar 11, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Homeowners may be a little safer and their homes better renovated now that a new series of online learning programs has been created by Nova Scotia-based energy-efficiency company Blue House Energy.

Shawna Henderson, company CEO, has written

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LED Roadway Raises $9.5M in Equity

  • Mar 10, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., a Halifax-based manufacturer of LED-based street lighting and wireless controls, announced today it has raised $9.5 million in equity funding, most of which has come from Founder and CEO Chuck Cartmill.

The company

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Profile: John Rowe Moves Upmarket

  • Mar 07, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Back in 2011, John Rowe, president and CEO of Island Abbey Foods, received one of the largest offers ever made by the investors of CBC’s Dragons’ Den — $600,000, plus a $400,000 line of credit — to help develop his Honibe Honey Drop.

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