The Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Network invited me to speak yesterday on a subject I hadn’t thought about much – early adopters. It led me to ask what makes a good early adopter, and who’s the best early adopter in Atlantic Canada.

It was a

DemoCamp Halifax will hold a mini, mid-season event on the night of Sunday, April 21, at Durty Nelly’s Pub on Argyle Street.

Billed as Mini DemoCamp Halifax, the event will feature a keynote address by David Crow, a co-founder of StartupNorth

Equals6, the Halifax-based professional social network for students, will soon launch a crowdfunding scholarship program in which people or organizations can help students raise funds for tuition over the Internet.

The two-year-old company has

The good patrons of Picaroons Brewtique may soon be helping to produce medical compounds each time they hoist a pint at the Fredericton microbrewery.

Picaroons is in talks with Fredericton biotech Mycodev Group Inc. on a plan to help the startup

When I asked Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia what her three priorities will be as the new CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, she paused and answered: attracting talent, bringing women into ITC, and technical education.

Then she added advocacy for digital

Seeets, the Charlottetown startup that operates a web-based rideshare service in the Maritimes, is setting its sights on an expansion into Ontario later this year after improving its existing service.

Seeets is the operator of Maritime Rideshare

When Steve Mallett entered the Launch36 accelerator last autumn, he did so as one of the most experienced entrepreneurs ever to go through the tech development program.

Based in the Saint John suburb of Quispamsis, Mallett is the CEO of

Now that it has signed its first customer and identified its first project, Saint John-based Wicked Ideas, which is devoted to the constructive online debate of controversial issues, is looking for its first group of investors.

The company,

Xiplinx Technologies, a New Brunswick company that helps manufacturers monitor compliance activities in their production lines, has drawn about $500,000 of funding, and could double that amount by early May.

All in, the company that graduated

A year ago, Shivam Rajdev sat in a Halifax restaurant and explained that he and a few colleagues wanted something more exciting in life than their jobs at a reinsurance back-office consultancy.

In the year since, he and some friends have

Armed with a new round of funding and head of business development, Kris McNeil hopes 2013 will be the year his company Solace Power lands the first customer for its wireless energy technology.

Solace Power was founded in 2007 with the goal of

Joining venture capital funds across the country, GrowthWorks Atlantic is protesting the federal government’s decision to phase out funding for Labour-Sponsored Venture Capital Corporations, saying it will hurt entrepreneurship in the outlying