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Jobs of the week: Dash Hudson

  • Aug 14, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Dash Hudson just keeps on hiring.

Today, our Jobs of the Week column is featuring three Dash Hudson openings – for a front-end web developer, sales development representative and an account executive.

Dash Hudson has created a

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Muise Turns Anxiety Battle into Startup

  • Aug 11, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Entrepreneur Joel Muise’s struggles with mental illness motivated him to found his startup, Tranquility Online. Now Muise is seeking participants to test his online service for treating anxiety.

Muise is looking for 48 people who suffer from

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FAN Focuses on Biotech, Follow-Ons

  • Aug 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

As it continues to fund young companies, the First Angel Network has developed an investment niche for the biomedical space and is showing an eagerness for repeat investments.

FAN, as it is known, has been investing in Atlantic Canadian startups

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Easing the Stress of Credit Cards

  • Aug 10, 2017
  • Cherise Letson, Huddle

Credit cards are scary.

Not just when you have a large balance on them, but even the process of choosing one can bring overwhelming confusion to the point where stuffing all your money under a mattress doesn’t seem like such a bad idea after all.

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Pilot Project Aims to Attract Investors

  • Aug 09, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Springboard Atlantic and Invest Atlantic have teamed up to launch a pilot project aimed at bringing more investment to Atlantic Canadian startups.

The two organizations issued a statement on Tuesday saying they hope the pilot project called the

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UpFront and Others Mulling ICOs

  • Aug 08, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Conor Daly and Kyle Gardiner produced a “Say What?” moment when they presented their company UpFront at the LaunchPad Dal Demo Day last month and said they were planning an ICO.

The Dalhousie business students said they weren’t seeking equity

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Jobs: HeyOrca, Audiobooks.com

  • Aug 08, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

We have a couple of openings for developers – one in St. John’s, and one in Ontario – to headline the Jobs of the Week column today.

St. John’s-based HeyOrca, which makes collaboration software for marketers, is looking for a Software QA Developer,

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NBIF Reviews Options on 500 Startups

  • Aug 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Expressing disappointment at the closure of 500 Startups Canada, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is now working with the fund manager to see what can be done about its investment in the fund.

Earlier this year, NBIF said it would be a

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Ritchie Gears Up for Incubator Launch

  • Aug 04, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

With more people, especially millennials, seeking work that is both meaningful and useful to society, Dale Ritchie is launching a Moncton-based accelerator and fund that will boost opportunities for social entrepreneurs.

Ritchie, President of the

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ADM Sold to Vinci Energies

  • Aug 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

ADM Systems Engineering, a Saint John electronics engineering company, has been purchased for an undisclosed price French industrial giant Vinci Energies.

The French company, which has 65,000 employees in 51 counties, issued a statement Thursday

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Squiggle Park Downloads Jump 5600%

  • Aug 03, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based edtech company Squiggle Park is starting August off the right way, pondering how to build on its app’s 5000-percent-plus jump in downloads in iTunes last month.

The company, whose online games help children to learn to read, received

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Air Realty Helps With Mere Listings

  • Aug 02, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

A new Nova Scotia real estate brokerage has launched an online service that allows homeowners to list their homes themselves on the Multi Listing Service.

Air Realty is the brainchild of Joshua Svec, an entrepreneur in Cow Bay.  In founding Air

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