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Busiest Week on the Startup Calendar

  • Sep 18, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Ready for the busiest eight days on the Halifax startup calendar?

You better be because five events that speak to the entire community will take place in the Nova Scotia capital between Sept. 22 and 30. It begins with MentorCamp on Monday,

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Can We Reform Equity Tax Credits?

  • Sep 17, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Next Thursday, members of the startup community will have an opportunity to discuss a matter that has been on their minds for years – how to liberalize the patchwork of angel tax credits in the region.

Rob Barbara, Partner at Build Ventures,

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Press Release: New Honibe Lozenges

  • Sep 17, 2014

Island Abbey Foods Launches Two New Honibe – Honey Lozenges Across Canada

Honey Lozenges with Cherry and Honey Lozenges with Immune Boost Now Available at Select Pharmacies and Online at http://www.Honibe.com

Charlottetown, PE, Canada –

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Helping People Order Pizzas Online

  • Sep 16, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Matt Stewart and Rob Myers should be poster boys for holding down business development costs.

Last year, the two residents of Sydney won $10,000 from the initial Spark Cape Breton competition, which Innovacorp held to encourage startups on the

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ROV3D Launched at Oceans ‘14

  • Sep 15, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

As the Oceans ’14 conference gets under way in St. John’s today, a local startup will debut the 3D underwater visualization system it has been working on for several years.

Whitecap Scientific has developed a product called ROV3D, which creates

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Highlights of Entrevestor-EF Event

  • Sep 15, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The problem of attracting early adopters once again showed itself at the Entrevestor-Entrepreneurs’ Forum luncheon in St. John’s on Thursday, even though it hadn’t been invited.

We had a great turnout and a truly superb meal at the Junior Common

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Press Release: Norex in Japan

  • Sep 15, 2014

Norex, the Halifax web development company, has issued the following press release:

Halifax based innovation and web firm Norex presenting at the world’s largest AdTech conference in Tokyo

Halifax, NS -- September 9, 2014 – It is not every day

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Profile: Rayworth’s Road Uphill

  • Sep 12, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Failure isn’t something most of us celebrate, but Kathleen Rayworth said her failures help her to be an effective executive director of the Entrepreneurs’ Forum, a regional organization that links entrepreneurs with seasoned advisers from the

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Invest Atlantic to Focus on Angels

  • Sep 11, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The fifth annual Invest Atlantic conference will shine a spotlight on a problem that hounds every startup community — how to encourage more wealthy individuals to invest in local young companies?

Since it began in 2010, Invest Atlantic has

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Assessing the Lean Canvas

  • Sep 10, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When Claire Ciel Zimmerman entered the Summ’er Up entrepreneurship program at Dalhousie University this summer, she hadn’t even heard of a lean canvas.

The co-founder of the magazine publishing startup Bootstrap had to learn how to use the nine

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Press Release: BioNova Semi-Finalists

  • Sep 10, 2014

BioNova, the life sciences association in Nova Scotia, has issued the following press release:  

BioInnovation Challenge Semi-Finalists Announced

Halifax, NS -- September 9, 2014 -- The semi-finalists have been chosen for the 2014 edition of

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HWKI’s Wearable Hockey Camera

  • Sep 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When Shea Kewin and Tim Priamo were playing hockey together as children in Guelph, Ont., they couldn’t have known they’d one day form a company to help players improve their game.

The two former teammates are the co-founders of HWKI, which has

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