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Adeptio Story in Progress Magazine
Last June, after the Launch36 DemoDay in Dieppe, N.B., I met Scott MacIntosh, the CEO of SwiftRadius, and one of his employees, Chad Griffin, who was about to spin off a company called Adeptio from the software consultancy.
I didn't quite catch
WP Status Lands Paying Customers
Over lunch in Charlottetown one day last summer, Scott Gallant and Jordan Patterson were grousing about one of the pains in their industry, and it resulted in the creation of their company, WP Status.
The company provides support for people who
CEED Launches Mentorship Program
The Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development is looking for a few good entrepreneurs. Actually, it has 15 really good entrepreneurs and is looking for another 15 up-and-comers to learn from them.
CEED has launched a new
Bonfire’s Video of Launch36 DemoDay
Allan Gates of Bonfire Stories has produced a video of the Launch36 DemoDay last week, which you can find here.
It certainly captures the excitement I remember from the first DemoDay last June. Wish I'd been there.
...Shopulse Steals the Launch36 Show
Though he has yet to graduate from high school, Raphael Paulin-Daigle has no qualms discussing the global potential of his fledgling business, Shopulse. In fact, he discussed it with hundreds of tech specialists last week at the Launch36 Demo Day,
Entertainment for Tepid Sports Fans
Sitting in the audience at the Launch36 DemoDay last June, Marc Gallant turned to a friend and said, “I got to get me some of that.”
When the startup accelerator held its most recent DemoDay last week, Gallant was on stage, presenting his
StartupNL: 100 Members in 4 Months
When Trevor Hickey began his startup in his home town of St. John’s last year, he often wished he had remained in Vancouver, or another city where there was a structured startup community and shared office facilities.
But now he’s found that
Packed House at Startup Weekend NB
Hot Spot Parking, an app to help cure the pain of downtown parking, won Startup Weekend New Brunswick in Fredericton yesterday, but I’m not sure that was the biggest news from the event.
The big story really took place Friday evening, when about
MyFarmers’Market Wins Startup Sunday
MyFarmers’Market, a website and app that allow online purchases of organic food, on Thursday night won the Halifax Entrepreneurship Expo’s Startup Sunday, a $10,000 pitch competition for teams of Saint Mary’s University students and entrepreneurs.
UpMyGame Ups Its Game at Launch36
Canadian triathlete Simon Whitfield tried a new piece of technology as he prepared for the 2012 Olympics in London — a video app from a Halifax startup called UpMyGame.
Training at his home in Victoria, B.C., Whitfield used UpMyGame to videotape
ECSW: Launch36 at the Halfway Point
Trevor MacAusland is about half-way to his goal.
In the autumn of 2011, the Executive Director of PropelICT announced the tech advocacy group in New Brunswick would start an accelerator called Launch36 with the goal of nurturing 36 companies
TotalPave Wins NBIF’s Breakthru Prize
TotalPave, a Fredericton startup founded by brothers Drew and Coady Cameron, has won the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s 2013 Breakthru business plan competition for its system to help cities and towns assess road conditions.
The company,
