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Views on Mental Health Must Change

  • Jul 21, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Attitudes and expectations within Atlantic Canada’s innovation community need to change to improve entrepreneurs’ well-being, writes researcher Michael DeVenney in the sixth and final part of his report into entrepreneurship and mental health.

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Dal LaunchPad Graduates 11 Teams

  • Jul 20, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

LaunchDal graduated its summer cohort of entrepreneurs on Wednesday night with pitches from 11 teams that were heavily weighted in hardware and oceans technology.

Almost all the teams Dalhousie University's LaunchPad program are working with or

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MetricsFlow Eyes $10K MRR in 2017

  • Jul 20, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

With a couple of clients in the bag and some leads in the sales funnel, Isaac Adejuwon has a singular goal for his company Metricsflow to reach by year-end – $10,000 in monthly recurring revenue.

The company began last year and has made rapid

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Volta To Triple Maritime Centre Space

  • Jul 19, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

In a deal that will triple its capacity, Volta Labs has signed a lease to take out 60,000 square feet of space in the Maritime Centre in Halifax.

The startup house this winter will take over the ground, mezzanine and second floors of the 19-storey

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ViewPoint Adds Mortgage Brokerage

  • Jul 19, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

ViewPoint Realty Services, which produces the key website for real estate data in Nova Scotia, has announced that it will now offer a mortgage brokerage to complement its real estate services.

Founded seven years ago by tech veteran Bill McMullin,

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Neck Tronics Plans Launch This Year

  • Jul 18, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Bill Smith believes he’s developing the best product available for strengthening neck muscles, and that it will be even better thanks to a deal he just signed with SimWave Consulting of Kanata, Ont.

Smith is a Bridgewater chiropractor who has used

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EhEye Wins StartupFest Award

  • Jul 18, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

EhEye, the Saint John company that enhances security video, left the Startup Festival in Montreal as the Atlantic Canadian company that seems to have captured the most buzz at the annual festival.

The company was the co-winner of the Grandmothers’

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Shad Brings Out Best in Teens

  • Jul 17, 2017
  • Cara Smith, Huddle

You wouldn’t expect to see high school students hard at work in classes on a hot July day. But for this group of young SHAD program participants, the robotics lab on University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus is exactly where they want to

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Jobs: Dash Hudson Account Exec

  • Jul 17, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Dash Hudson is continuing to expand its staff, and today we’re highlighting an opening at the social media analytics company for an account executive.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual intelligence platform” that helps its corporate

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Helping Carers of the Elderly

  • Jul 14, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

After focusing on providing dementia care training and services to staff in care homes, consulting company Person Centred Universe is turning its attention to supporting those who care for dementia sufferers in private settings like family

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East Coast Troop at StartupFest

  • Jul 14, 2017
  • Cherise Letson, Huddle

On Thursday, 55 entrepreneurs from Atlantic Canada arrived at Montreal StartupFest on a luxury charter bus, what the Taskforce Fredericton Startup Network is calling the East Coast Caravan.

The Taskforce Fredericton Startup Network worked with

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Mariner Aims To Improve 28% Growth

  • Jul 13, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Craig Storey has just taken over international sales at Atlantic Canada’s most influential tech company, Saint John-based Mariner, and he’s not satisfied with its 28-per-cent revenue growth in 2016.

Until recently, Storey was the CEO of Shift

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