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Mark Dobbin Featured in Progress

  • Aug 01, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Recent Fundings on Startup Monthly

  • Aug 01, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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ACOA Aids Ascenta Skin’s Launch

  • Jul 31, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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BlueLight Launches checkMARC

  • Jul 30, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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5 Ways to Improve Your Messaging

  • Jul 29, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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, NHL, NBA or MLB will be lost in the talk of the wickets, creases, hits for six and the mind-numbing stats.

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Gail Lethbridge on Entrepreneurship

  • Jul 29, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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SageCrowd: Self-Help Authors’ Platform

  • Jul 26, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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LeadSift App Launches on HootSuite

  • Jul 25, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Green Power Labs’ Product for Buildings

  • Jul 25, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Above All, Make Yourself Understood

  • Jul 24, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Simplifying 3D Interactive Training

  • Jul 23, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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Canadian Tech in USA Today

  • Jul 23, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

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

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