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Halifax Tech Landscape Set for Change

  • Mar 12, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

The startup landscape in Halifax is going to change in the next year or so, and Spring Garden Road could soon be known for perky young entrepreneurs as much as for shopping fashion-istas.

 The innovation community in the Halifax area is now

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USA Today on Canadian Tech Scene

  • Mar 12, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

USA Today on Monday published my story on the Canadian tech scene, which said the heart of the industry is found in the small and growing companies.

It was a great opportunity to go beyond Atlantic Canada and chat with people covering the tech

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Purchext Wins Silver, Heads to Next 36

  • Mar 11, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

The most intriguing story at the Canadian Business Model Competition on Saturday was not so much the team that took home the gold medal as the team(s) who captured silver and bronze.

For the record, Spring Loaded Technology, which is developing

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Spinzo Eyeing Blue Chip Partners

  • Mar 11, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

A year and a half after he set out to revolutionize the crowd-buying model, Emmanuel Elmajian is now adjusting the focus of his company Spinzo in a bid to ramp up its sales volume.

Elmajian formed the Saint John company in late 2011 in a bid to

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New Bosses at Innovacorp, Digital NS

  • Mar 11, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Two of the leading organizations in the Nova Scotia startup world have new bosses.

Innovacorp, the province’s innovation agency, said Friday that it had appointed Stephen Duff, the former Co-CEO of Precision BioLogic of Dartmouth, as its new

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Startup Lawyer: Lessons for Founders

  • Mar 08, 2013
  • Rob Cowan

Editor’s note: We’re delighted to introduce the first Canadian Startup Lawyer blog by Rob Cowan, Partner at McInnes Cooper.  This will appear monthly on Rob’s blogging site, StartupLawyer.ca, and Entrevestor.

Each month, Rob will select a topic

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Hamblin Puts $100K in Spring Loaded

  • Mar 07, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Spring Loaded Technology of Halifax has landed a $100,000 investment from a prominent Halifax tech entrepreneur, validating not only the company’s product, but also entrepreneurship courses at the region’s universities.

John Hamblin, the

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New Partnership with Startup Kitchen

  • Mar 06, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

We're delighted to post for the first -- and certainly not the last -- time a joint panel with Startup Kitchen.

We've taped a discussion among Startup Kitchen's Robert Foley and Suhaim Abdussamad and me, covering a few of the big startup stories

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Startup Facility Planned for Halifax

  • Mar 05, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Jevon MacDonald, the co-founder and CEO of GoInstant, is leading a drive to open a new working space in Halifax where tech entrepreneurs can rent space and benefit from each other’s experiences.

MacDonald and his collaborators plan to open the

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SkySquirrel Develops Aerial Drones

  • Mar 04, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

The story of SkySquirrel Technologies is a story of two immigrants in rural Nova Scotia, a kick-ass medical device company and the development of an unmanned aerial vehicle that could save lives.

Though very much in its infancy, SkySquirrel is a

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CompCamp Heading to Invest Atlantic

  • Mar 04, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

There’s going to be a bit of a change this year in the Pitching Den at Invest Atlantic.

The fourth annual Invest Atlantic conference will be held at the Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre on Sept. 25, and like its three predecessors it

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Debating the Pay-to-Pitch Model

  • Mar 01, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

To further the debate about whether companies should pay to pitch, Entrevestor today is publishing guest columns outlining opposing views.

Since Toronto-based startup evangelist David Crow criticized the First Angel Network in Startup North on

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