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ViewPoint Strategy Targets Brokerage
ViewPoint Realty Services, a Bedford,N.S.,-based online property data and brokerage site, is reviewing its strategy with the goal of leveraging its highly successful website to draw more customers to its brokerage business.
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SMU to Launch MTEI Program
Sitting in a coffee shop on the St. Mary’s University campus, Dawn Jutla is almost dwarfed by the stack of pamphlets promoting the new program she is launching – the Master’s of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
The MTEI program at the
NSBI Sinks $1.5M in Health Outcomes
Strengthening its finances and team, Cape Breton healthcare administration company Health Outcomes Worldwide has landed $1.5 million in follow-on funding from Nova Scotia Business Inc. weeks after it hired Ted Maclean as Chief Executive Officer.
SMU’s Davison Developing DressEase
Becky Davison sees a massive market for her line of clothes for people with arthritis, and she is now trying to execute a strategy for selling it to consumers.
The MBA student at Saint Mary’s University is the CEO of DressEase, an adaptive
Neurodyn Lands $1.5M; May Add $500K
Neurodyn Inc., the Charlottetown biotech developing early treatments for neurological diseases, has closed a $1.5-million round of funding from a range of U.S. and Canadian investors and could bump the total up to $2 million.
The company will
Alpha Dog Games Seeks $1 Million
Now that its first mobile game Wraithborne has been downloaded by 200,000 users, Alpha Dog Games is looking for as much as $1 million to help develop its next game.
The Bedford, N.S., game developer launched Wraithborne for mobile devices
G2 Research Enters New Segments
Entering its fourth year of existence, G2 Research is branching out from GPS analytics for law enforcement to new sectors such as fleet management, security for companies using shippers, and high-risk offender monitoring.
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Lowe: Blending Wisdom and Capital
When Brian Lowe was a young man looking to sell his Nova Scotia environmental services companies, he had two offers on the table.
In the end, he sold to Laidlaw Environmental Services of South Carolina because Laidlaw was able to offer cash and,
PlanAheADD helping ADHD Patients
Dylan Mitchell’s creation of PlanAheADD illustrates all that is good in the Atlantic Canadian start-up community. His is the story of someone turning a personal challenge into a business, of a mentor and an angel giving generously to a young
Halifax Entrepreneurship Expo
Ten teams of students and entrepreneurs will vie for $10,000 in seed money in Startup Sunday, the highlight of the Halifax Entrepreneurship Expo, which culminates on March 21.
Philip Calvert, the head of Calvert Events and the organizer of this
Fredericton to Host Startup Week
A loose confederacy of organizations is organizing East Coast Startup Week in Fredericton in late March to encourage entrepreneurs, and they hope it will become an annual event in a different city each year.
Startup Week 2013 will feature Demo
Ladies Learning Code in Halifax
In the continuing effort to encourage women in technological pursuits, the Halifax chapter of Ladies Learning Code will hold its first workshop in the region in April.
Toronto-based Ladies Learning Code is a national not-for-profit organization
