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Purchext Wins Silver, Heads to Next 36
The most intriguing story at the Canadian Business Model Competition on Saturday was not so much the team that took home the gold medal as the team(s) who captured silver and bronze.
For the record, Spring Loaded Technology, which is developing
Spinzo Eyeing Blue Chip Partners
A year and a half after he set out to revolutionize the crowd-buying model, Emmanuel Elmajian is now adjusting the focus of his company Spinzo in a bid to ramp up its sales volume.
Elmajian formed the Saint John company in late 2011 in a bid to
New Bosses at Innovacorp, Digital NS
Two of the leading organizations in the Nova Scotia startup world have new bosses.
Innovacorp, the province’s innovation agency, said Friday that it had appointed Stephen Duff, the former Co-CEO of Precision BioLogic of Dartmouth, as its new
Startup Lawyer: Lessons for Founders
Editor’s note: We’re delighted to introduce the first Canadian Startup Lawyer blog by Rob Cowan, Partner at McInnes Cooper. This will appear monthly on Rob’s blogging site, StartupLawyer.ca, and Entrevestor.
Each month, Rob will select a topic
Hamblin Puts $100K in Spring Loaded
Spring Loaded Technology of Halifax has landed a $100,000 investment from a prominent Halifax tech entrepreneur, validating not only the company’s product, but also entrepreneurship courses at the region’s universities.
John Hamblin, the
New Partnership with Startup Kitchen
We're delighted to post for the first -- and certainly not the last -- time a joint panel with Startup Kitchen.
We've taped a discussion among Startup Kitchen's Robert Foley and Suhaim Abdussamad and me, covering a few of the big startup stories
Startup Facility Planned for Halifax
Jevon MacDonald, the co-founder and CEO of GoInstant, is leading a drive to open a new working space in Halifax where tech entrepreneurs can rent space and benefit from each other’s experiences.
MacDonald and his collaborators plan to open the
SkySquirrel Develops Aerial Drones
The story of SkySquirrel Technologies is a story of two immigrants in rural Nova Scotia, a kick-ass medical device company and the development of an unmanned aerial vehicle that could save lives.
Though very much in its infancy, SkySquirrel is a
CompCamp Heading to Invest Atlantic
There’s going to be a bit of a change this year in the Pitching Den at Invest Atlantic.
The fourth annual Invest Atlantic conference will be held at the Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre on Sept. 25, and like its three predecessors it
Debating the Pay-to-Pitch Model
To further the debate about whether companies should pay to pitch, Entrevestor today is publishing guest columns outlining opposing views.
Since Toronto-based startup evangelist David Crow criticized the First Angel Network in Startup North on
Finlay, Lowe Standing By FAN’s Record
The First Angel Network, or FAN, goes where other investors fear to tread. Since 2005, it has directed more than $9 million to business startups in Atlantic Canada.
As co-founders of Atlantic-based FAN, we are proud of the performance of the
Nagtegaal: Opposing Pay to Pitch
After 25 years in venture capital, I first heard the term “investment ask” five years ago, when working in Nova Scotia.
I didn’t like it at all! And I really don’t like the practice of asking entrepreneurs to pay to pitch.
One important thing
