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BDC Recognizes Pond’s Leadership

  • Mar 25, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Gerry Pond, the driving force behind the East Coast startup community, has received the first-ever BDC Entrepreneurship Champion from the Business Development Bank of Canada.

He received the award during a reception in Toronto last night.

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Lunch To Focus on International Sales

  • Mar 25, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When Doug Robertson leads a discussion on international sales on April 15, he’ll be dealing with a subject close to his heart.

Robertson, the CEO of Venn Innovation in Moncton, has been preparing companies lately for entering overseas markets.

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Castaway Grew Throughout Breakthru

  • Mar 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

To understand why Castaway Golf Technologies won the $287,250 first prize in the 2015 Breakthru competition, it’s best to consider why it changed its name in the middle of the six-month competition.

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation

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Finding Gems in Rural Communities

  • Mar 24, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Andrew Button has attended too many meetings about Atlantic Canada’s economic troubles. He has worked in economic development with a specialization in rural communities and found that the region’s economic woes became a hot topic in every

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Snow Days: Tech Solutions Exist

  • Mar 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

My column last week suggesting a hackathon to find a home-grown solution to snow days drew a lot of response, which I’d like to share with our readers.

To recap, I suggested that the education departments or school boards hold hackathons to work

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Press Release: SubC’s NBIA Win

  • Mar 23, 2015

The Genesis Centre, an incubator affiliated with Memorial University of Newfoundland, has issued the following press release:

Ocean Technology Company SubC Imaging Wins International Business Award

Memorial University’s Genesis Centre is

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Castaway Golf Wins Breakthru

  • Mar 20, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Castaway Golf Technologies, a company that grew out of a young boy’s love of retrieving lost golf balls, has won the $287,250 first prize in the 2015 Breakthru competition.

The Fredericton company that is developing an automated system for

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Entrevestor Luncheon Set for Moncton

  • Mar 20, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

With the support of BDO, Entrevestor will once again this year host a series of Entrevestor Luncheons, beginning with an event in Moncton on April 15.

BDO, the accountancy and tax advisory consultancy, has agreed to sponsor four Entrevestor

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Building Excellence in Mentorship

  • Mar 20, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

As Executive Director of The Mentra, Atlantic Canada’s new mentoring organization, Janna Hare expected to be matching mentors and mentees like a dating service. But she’s found that people want to choose who they work with.

So now, The Mentra is

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Can Geeks Solve Snow Days?

  • Mar 19, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

As education departments around Atlantic Canada try to find a solution for the snow day problem, they should consider asking geeks for help.

The pain is obvious. Our students are missing too much time due to the weather, and officials are

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Nancy Mathis to Chair Invest Atlantic

  • Mar 19, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Invest Atlantic has announced that Nancy Mathis will chair the conference this autumn, and that it will expand its pitching series to include new classes of entrepreneurs.

Now in its sixth year, Invest Atlantic is a pan-regional conference for

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Five Teams Vie for Breakthru Bonanza

  • Mar 18, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Three New Brunswick companies tomorrow will receive funding of more than $200,000 each as the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation will announce the winners of the 2015 Breakthru competition.

The Breakthru Awards Dinner will be held Thursday

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