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FunnelCake’s Client List Growing
Marko Savic believes he has found a missing component from marketing analysis – the ability to track the client’s relationship with your company.
Savic is a co-founder of FunnelCake, a Kitchener-based startup that helps marketing teams to track
Donovan Named Entrepreneur of Year
Michael Donovan, Executive Chairman of film and television company DHX Media Ltd., has won this year's Entrepreneur Of The Year Atlantic, presented by global consultancy EY at a ceremony in St. John’s on Thursday.
Donovan has been a pioneer in
Startup Canada in NS Wednesday
Startup Canada on Wednesday will host a pair of events in Halifax, kicking off its cross-country Every Entrepreneur tour.
The Every Entrepreneur event begins tomorrow morning at 9 am at the McInnes Room at Dalhousie University’s Student Union
Howe Wins by Losing Bet to Martell
In the hope of making his sales targets a reality, young entrepreneur David Howe accepted a bet from his mentor, Dan Martell. Howe lost but furthered his career in ways he couldn’t have imagined.
Howe met Martell, a serial entrepreneur and angel
Dal’s Collider Opens its Doors
Dalhousie University’s Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship on Thursday launched the Collider, a space on the second floor of the Killam Library to promote entrepreneurship within the university and the entrepreneur community.
The Collider
Techtoberfest Set for Next Week
Techtoberfest, the annual tech conference put on by Communitech, returns Oct. 13 and 14 with events that will connect startups with venture capitalists and feature Oktoberfest trimmings and festivities.
The two-day event is set to draw 250
Livingston Justifies Kik’s Valuation
If you ask Ted Livingston what makes Kik Interactive worth a billion dollars – which someone did during a discussion at University of Waterloo Wednesday night – the answer eventually comes down to its “killer demographic.”
Waterloo-based Kik
Laforge Builds Farm of the Future
You could say Rock Laforge operates the dairy farm of the future, and that’s why he received the 2015 New Brunswick Bioscience Achievement Award from BioNB.
A fourth-generation farmer from Saint-Andre (50 kilometres southeast of Edmundston),
Second ProductCamp Set for Oct. 24
ProductCamp Atlantic, the one-day networking and mentoring session for product managers, will return for a second year on Saturday, Oct. 24.
ProductCamp is a loosely organized get-together in which product managers, marketing professionals and
Ruffolo Sees Startup Group In Months
John Ruffolo is leading an active drive to start an association for growth-stage startups in Canada and expects the body will be up and running in a few months.
After floating the idea online recently, the CEO of OMERS Ventures has identified a
An Irish View of St. John’s Startups
When you work around startups, you sometimes get the chance to go to an event in a far-flung city. So when Roger Power of Startup Newfoundland and Labrador invited me to be a pitch mentor at a Startup Weekend in St. John’s in June, I decided that
CollegeMix Gains its First 500 Users
CollegeMix has gained 500 users for its app to connect students after launching on Sept. 6 during the University of New Brunswick’s orientation week.
Fredericton-based CollegeMix aims to act as a virtual bulletin board for university and college
