— Bangor’s inaugural Startup Weekend was scheduled to begin this evening, but will not go forward because of a dearth of participants. Weak anticipated attendance was the reason for postponing the event, according to Jesse Moriarty, who works at the University of Maine’s Foster Center for Innovation and is one of the event’s organizers. The goal […]

InnovationME, the locally published magazine aimed at Maine’s entrepreneurial community, is ceasing publication. The monthly magazine was launched in November 2013 and survived an 11-issue run. The September issue recently hit the streets, but there will not be an October issue. David Flood, the magazine’s Biddeford-based publisher, confirmed that he’s pushed the pause button on the project, but […]

The organizers of Maine Startup & Create Week have announced the dates for the 2015 edition. The event will take place the week of June 22, 2015, according to Jess Knox, the event’s lead organizer. It will likely run through the following Sunday, which is June 28, but nothing is set in stone, he said. Additional details […]

DemerBox, the Portland startup that’s taking on Bose and other giants of the audio electronics industry with its sturdy and portable boomboxes, has successfully reached its fundraising goal on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. The company, which I wrote about in an article published in today’s paper, met and exceeded its $60,000 fundraising goal this morning. Projects on […]

Each year for the past five years, WEX Inc. has brought in a big-name speaker to keynote its Leadership and Creativity Event Series at the University of Southern Maine. Past speakers include Sen. George Mitchell, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodard and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. This year’s speaker, which WEX announced today, will be […]

A guy took a fishing trip to Maine and then compares us to a developing nation because of our Internet speeds. Tourism as a double-edged sword? It’s funny to joke, but the issue of Internet speed isn’t a laughing matter. Michael McKee, Bloomberg’s economics editor, recently took a fishing trip to Maine and returned with the dire conclusion that residents […]

Gov. Paul LePage appeared out of his comfort zone a few times during a presentation he made Tuesday night at the Casco Bay Tech Hub in Portland. While he took the opportunity to cover many of his routine campaign talking points, he also ventured into less familiar territory, such as high-tech industries and crowdfunding, and […]

Automattic, owner of the popular WordPress website platform, has acquired a Bath-based web development startup that’s been around less than two years. It was in April 2013 that Sam Hotchkiss, a web developer who lives in Brunswick, locked himself in his basement with an idea for a security plug-in for the WordPress platform, which is used by millions of website owners around […]

The Maine Angels has found itself at the top of a national ranking of elite angel investment groups. While the Maine group, a collection of affluent individuals who pool their resources to invest in and mentor early-stage companies, is not listed in the top 20 of the overall ranking of angel investment groups, it does top the rankings of angel investment […]

Inc. magazine on Wednesday released its list of the country’s 5,000 fastest-growing private companies. This year, 14 Maine companies made the list. However, only one made the elite Inc. 500 and it’s at the top of that list — at No. 6. That’s the highest ranking for a Maine company I can remember, but have yet to confirm that by poring over […]