Fresh off her win at the Entreverge awards, Briana Warner and her Portland bakery business are now being featured in a national report from Google about the economic impact its search engine and advertising platforms have in the country. Google’s economic impact report is a publicity stunt, but it does include some noteworthy state-by-state numbers. The Internet […]

It’s been three weeks since Maine Startup and Create Week was the center of attention in Maine’s startup scene — and, if the event accomplished one of its goals, at least in the peripheral vision of the larger statewide community. Since then, I’ve been talking with people about how they plan to maintain the momentum created […]

Idexx Laboratories held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday to introduce the public to its new $35 million Synergy Center in Westbrook, one of three office buildings that make up its “World Campus.” The new office was designed with the open-office concept embraced by high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. The Synergy Center, which contains 280 employees, including its executive […]

Elizabeth Chabe grew up in Machias and started her first company when she was nine years old. Since then she’s started several others, some of which have landed her in trouble (read on to learn more about that). Now 29 years old, her most recent startup is High Touch Courses, which aims to create online courses for […]

When I write about startups, I often wonder how many people automatically picture young, hoody-wearing computer programmers banging away on laptops with empty cans of Red Bull scattered across a table. It’s a false stereotype, of course. Entrepreneurs can be any age (a Kauffman Foundation study found the average age of U.S.-born tech entrepreneurs to be 39) and in […]

One of the main goals of Maine Startup and Create Week is to help foster and grow Maine’s startup community. That is, of course, the crux of everything. Startups are new businesses, albeit ones that carry a sexier label, and without new businesses, Maine’s economy would crumble. The people who start those businesses are more likely to […]

Note: This is guest post written by Tom Bell, a business reporter at the Portland Press Herald, who attended Tuesday morning’s Maine Startup and Create Week panel on innovation in the marine industries. Maine’s cool, clean ocean waters and its powerful brand make the state a great place for investing in aquaculture, according to panelists […]

Note: This is a guest post by Carol Coultas, business editor of the Portland Press Herald, who attended Monday afternoon’s Maine Startup & Create Week panel on Women and Entrepreneurship. If you were in the audience at the Women and Entrepreneurship session, you were likely swinging from inspiration to frustration as the panelists countered their enthusiasm and […]

Maine Startup & Create Week is upon us. There are more than 600 people registered and nearly 160 speakers taking part in the week-long celebration of entrepreneurship and innovation in Maine, as I reported in yesterday’s Maine Sunday Telegram. I’ll be blogging about the week’s events, encounters and experiences, so bookmark The Startup Line and check back […]

More than 300 people turned out Thursday evening to support local entrepreneurs at this year’s Entreverge awards event, held in the grand ballroom of the new Westin Harborview hotel. Entreverge is an annual awards program sponsored by PROPEL, the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce’s young professionals group, that seeks to recognize and reward burgeoning entrepreneurs […]