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Featured in a Portland Press Herald article from October of 2017, our client Zombait "puts the wiggle back in dead bait fish". Zombait is a fishing lure to be inserted into a bait fish that makes to wiggle and move like it's alive. Fisherman turned entrepreneur Rink Varian...
Opus is involved in a number of entrepreneurial ventures. Some start-ups succeed and many fail. What makes the difference? The conventional model for a company start-up is to have an idea and create a business plan that identifies the market opportunity and financing...
Great event organized by MCED today to celebrate entrepreneurship in Maine. The winners of the Top Gun program presented their pitches at the Top Gun Showcase 2016 in Portland. Congratulations to Don Gooding for his work and dedication to promoting startups and creativity in...
Portland, Maine stands out as a small city where entrepreneurs have the resources to succeed. NerdWallet ranked Portland as the ninth best city for female entrepreneurs and the fifth best city overall for starting a business this year. The amount of venture capital that reached...
The 2009 session of the Top Gun program was a huge success... Steve Bazinet from the Maine Center for Enterprise Development (MCED) is once again recruiting dynamic entrepreneurs to participate in its Applied Entrepreneurship Program aka ‘Top Gun’ for 2010. The...
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