A year ago, Fumes Rolling Papers were selling in about 30 convenience stores around Halifax. Not bad for a local start-up, but co-owners Josh Creighton and his brothers Treno and Tyler Morton had even bigger ambitions. Their sights were set on the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation and its $86-million legal-cannabis business. “We very much saw […]
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Elwood Pens is bringing the write stuff
Dylan Thompson-Mackay was in high school when he got his first taste of entrepreneurship—even though he didn’t really know it at the time. It was thanks to a pen he’d innocently made in woodshop that happened to catch the attention of the right person on the golf course. “A banker from Toronto tried to buy […]
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A tech scene to be seen
The Coast is very much into local people doing cool things, but it has a blind spot in relation to Halifax’s tech scene. That’s because tech firms don’t usually have an inviting retail presence like the stores and restaurants we obsess about in ShopTalk, and tech creators tend to be making things for consumption by […]
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Harbr’s building momentum in the construction tech field
Some tech companies are started in dorm rooms. Harbr traces its roots to Dave Kim’s living room. Kim is a transplant from Australia to Nova Scotia. Long story short, while travelling in his 20s he became friendly with some Cape Bretoners in upstate New York, and decided to check out their home turf. Sure enough […]
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5 tips for starting a tech company
“I planned to be a millionaire before my 30th birthday,” Katelyn Bourgoin writes on her website, describing the ambitions that lead her to launch a social networking company. But despite her intentions and the international press accolades she received as founder of the what looked like the next LinkedIn, the business fizzled. “Trying to build a […]
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Immigrant Women Entrepreneur Showcase offers education and opportunity
Immigrant Women Entrepreneur Showcase Pitch Competition Monday November 27, 6:30pm Halifax Central Library,5440 Spring Garden Road An entrepreneur workshop series and showcase is enabling female immigrants to develop and pitch ideas for potential businesses in Halifax. Business “is a very male-dominated area,” says project manager Kyla Doornbos. “What we aim to do with this project […]