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Entrevestor on Holiday Next Week
Entrevestor will take its annual summer holiday next week and will not be covering news until after Labour Day.
We will return as usual on Sept. 2.
We hope all our readers have a happy and safe long weekend.
Peter and Carol Moreira.
GetGoing Gets Going at Bootcamp
Starting this week, a new Halifax startup is taking part in a boot camp for women in technology at Waterloo, Ont.-based Communitech, the country’s premiere startup lab.
GetGoing hopes to use its time in the Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp to get
BioPort Now a More Regional Event
BioPort Atlantic, the annual conference for the East Coast life sciences industry, is moving closer to being a truly regional event as it is now being promoted by organizations in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
BioNova, the
Gillis, 15, Brings Bitness to Market
While most of the teens at the Shad Valley tech and entrepreneurship camp in July focused on their science projects, Alex Gillis might have been a bit distracted by the business he’d started two months before.
He is now launching the business,
Press Release: FoodTender Launch
FoodTender, the Shediac, N.B.-based online ordering system for restaurants, issued the following press release today:
FoodTender Launches Free Online Ordering Service In Major Technology Advance for Restaurants and Foodservice Suppliers
Pitch 101 To Be Held Tuesday
Entrepreneurs’ Forum will host a Pitch 101 competition Tuesday, August 19, at 12:30 pm at the Innovacorp offices at 1344 Summer St., Halifax.
Pitch 101 is an initiative launched by Bob Williamson of Invest Atlantic to encourage students and
Profile: Robert Niven’s Next Product
Eight years after he attended a climate change conference as a student and realized that his carbon capture theory could help lessen climate change, Robert Niven is launching a ready-mix concrete product he expects to grow his company and cut
Engage Conference Set for Sept. 25
The Engage 2014 Conference, which will encourage innovation and commercialization at post-secondary institutions, will be held in Halifax on Sept. 25 and may lead to other similarly themed events throughout the region.
Although the number of
Press Releases: Planet Hatch
Planet Hatch, the Fredericton startup centre, has released the following press releases:
Launch36 Information Session
As you may know, applications for the Fall 2014 Cohort are now OPEN!
In collaboration with Volta Labs, we will be adopting
Entrevestor-EF Dinners Set for NL, NS
Entrevestor and the Entrepreneurs’ Forum are delighted to announce we will host the next in our series of dinners in St. John’s on Sept. 11 and in Halifax on Sept. 25.
The first Entrevestor Dinner was held in Fredericton in May, and we received
Oasis Farmery: Aquaponics Pioneers
Imagine, if you will, a goldfish tank sitting in your kitchen, with a vegetable and herb garden sitting on top of it. The waste from the goldfish fertilizes the plants, a process that in turn cleans the water for the fish. Now imagine your family
Summ’er Up! to Expand Next Year
As they wrapped up their first Summ’er Up! Accelerator on Monday, Mary Killfoil and Ed Leach announced the program will expand next year, thanks to a $100,000 donation from the John Dobson foundation.
Kilfoil and Leach, who teach business,
