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Mark Dobbin Featured in Progress
I was really lucky in March to spend some time with Mark Dobbin, the head of Killick Capital of St. John’s.
The result of that interview – conducted in his open, marble-floored office with a panoramic view of St. John’s Harbour – is an article
Recent Fundings on Startup Monthly
The latest edition of Startup Monthly, the video discussion about the Atlantic Canadian startup community, is now available at Startup Kitchen.
This month, Robert Foley, Suhaim Abdussamad and I are joined by Jason Lee, Program Manager at
ACOA Aids Ascenta Skin’s Launch
Ascenta Health Ltd. in Dartmouth has received a $500,000 repayable loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to support the marketing of Ascenta Skin, its first omega-3-based product for the beauty market.
Founded a decade ago by CEO
BlueLight Launches checkMARC
BlueLight Analytics, whose technology ensures dentists apply the right amount of energy when curing resin-based fillings, has launched its new checkMARC product, which it hopes will serve as an entry into dental offices around the world.
The
5 Ways to Improve Your Messaging
All you North American sports fans out there: have you ever read a cricket report in a British newspaper?
My bet is any fan of the NFL,
Gail Lethbridge on Entrepreneurship
My old friend Gail Lethbridge highlighted Entrevestor in this superb column on Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurship on Saturday.
Lethbridge, whose column appears weekly in the Chronicle-Herald, makes the case that entrepreneurship is alive and
SageCrowd: Self-Help Authors’ Platform
In the next few months, a Halifax startup will launch an online learning network that will deepen the relationship between some of the world’s leading personal improvement authors and their legions of followers.
The company, sageCrowd, was
LeadSift App Launches on HootSuite
Halifax-based LeadSift, whose software finds sales leads for corporate customers, has signed a distribution agreement with HootSuite, the Vancouver startup that allows people to monitor and manage their social media traffic.
The two companies
Green Power Labs’ Product for Buildings
Green Power Labs of Dartmouth is celebrating its 10th year of delivering climate analytics to the power industry by launching an ambitious project that could reduce energy consumption in buildings by well over 10 per cent.
Founded in 2003, the
Above All, Make Yourself Understood
I recently witnessed a pitch by the representative of a Central Canadian biotech company that had a product that sounded spiffy, but damned if I could figure out what the guy was saying. The pitch involved a string of medical jargon—and while I
Simplifying 3D Interactive Training
The Co-Founders of the new Halifax startup Modest Tree Media Inc. want to make printed training manuals — whether for assembling an Ikea bookshelf or operating a state-of-the-art jet engine — a thing of the past.
These entrepreneurs — chief
Canadian Tech in USA Today
My latest article for USA Today, which is in today's edition, covers the programs popping up in the U.S. that help Canadian startups – C100, Canadian Entrepreneurs in New England and the Canadian Technology Accelerators.
The story features
