The Fishing Plus Accelerator, launching this fall, will teach financial literacy and business startup skills.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
A fast-paced debut novel about a start-up seems ripped from real-life events
In Austin Taylor’s ‘Notes on Infinity,’ 2 brilliant Harvard students meet, compete, drop out, form a startup and become romantically entangled. Then things start to go awry.
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Posted inBusiness, Food, Local & State
A Harpswell chocolatier wants to make her Buoy Pops Maine’s next iconic treat
It started with a question: ‘Why has nobody made a lollipop shaped like a lobster buoy?’
Posted inBusiness, Times Record
Bath sustainable clothing maker wins small business prize
A Bath-based organic clothing business won the Top Gun pitch competition to accelerate their small business.
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Teen entrepreneurs mean business
Local high schoolers are joining a trend of hardworking Gen Z teens.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
New division of MaineHealth helps turn medical ideas into reality
MaineHealth Innovation helps staff realize their product concepts by connecting them with experienced entrepreneurs and technical experts.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Maine small-business mentoring group reports record year
SCORE Maine, which has over 130 volunteers, said the pandemic helped create increased demand for its services.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Outdoors
Maine tech startups arise from increased interest in great outdoors
Investors, entrepreneurs and outdoor industry professionals take notice of the growing interest in the outdoor activities and the new technology-driven ways people are connecting with it.
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Kittery breastfeeding app-maker secures new funding, state partnership
The social app offers access to professional lactation consultants, articles and information about breastfeeding, a crowdsourced map of locations to nurse or pump, and to other new parents.
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Portland software firm wins $50,000 prize in annual pitch contest
Industrial software developer HighByte took the top prize in Gorham Savings Bank’s LaunchPad competition.