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The year in review: Here are 10 of our most unusual business stories
Updated: December 31, 2019In this look back at 2019, Mainebiz compiled some of the year's outliers — stories about products or initiatives that went off the beaten path.
Updated: December 31, 2019
Waldo County restaurant phenom urges fellow entrepreneurs to start small
Updated: December 20, 2019When Erin French opened the Lost Kitchen in the Waldo County town of Freedom more than six years ago, she had modest goals. Today her restaurant seats 48 and has attracted national attention.
Updated: December 20, 2019
Waterville startup Eariously awarded Libra Future Fund grant
December 19, 2019The grant is the latest step forward for the Waterville startup, which also won the Big Gig pitch competition in Orono earlier this month and was awarded an MTI grant in August.
December 19, 2019
Waterville incubator will expand with state coworking development money
December 13, 2019Bricks Coworking & Innnovation Space and its Jumpstart program will use grant money from the state's Coworking Development Fund to expand services for young entrepreneurs looking to get a business off the ground.
December 13, 2019
Portland's Foothill Fuels among Popular Science top recreation innovators
December 5, 2019The startup this fall launched Bio-White Gas, a low-carbon renewable fuel for the outdoor recreation market, and hopes to begin retail sales by the spring.
December 5, 2019
16 coworking spaces across Maine win grants from restored state fund
November 27, 2019Four years since making its initial grants, the state’s long-dormant Coworking Development Fund has awarded a second round of them to shared business spaces in 12 communities across Maine.
November 27, 2019
CEI's impact this year: $24M deployed, 120 businesses aided
November 27, 2019In 2019, Brunswick-based Coastal Enterprises Inc. has deployed over $24.1 million in loans and other financing to 120 businesses, mostly in Maine, and contributed to the creation and preservation of 1,900 jobs.
November 27, 2019
Northern Maine commission gets $500K to assist small businesses
November 25, 2019The Northern Maine Development Commission was one of three community development financial institutions in Maine that received a total of $2.164 million in federal funds.
November 25, 2019
New resource directories offer easy-to-find help for Maine entrepreneurs
Updated: November 21, 2019A nonprofit on Mount Desert Island recently launched an online directory of business development resources. And Susan Morris, a founding organizer of Startup Maine, this month issued the fifth edition of her guide for entrepreneurs.
Updated: November 21, 2019
Black Box tenants growing, graduating year after it opened
November 13, 2019The Washington Avenue retail incubator, built out of shipping containers, is working out both for those businesses that move on to bigger things and those that plan to stay a while.
November 13, 2019
$300K grant will provide financing, coaching for diverse Maine entrepreneurs
Updated: November 12, 2019The Wells Fargo Foundation’s Diverse Community Capital program awarded a $300,000 grant to Coastal Enterprises Inc., to provide financing, business coaching and other help.
Updated: November 12, 2019
Taki Miyamoto, of Pierce Atwood, climbs a different path outside his law practice
Updated: November 11, 2019Taki Miyamoto, who was born in Japan and raised near New York, chatted with Mainebiz about growth prospects for the Scarborough climbing gym he co-founded and his ambitions as an attorney.
Updated: November 11, 2019
Millennial leaders featured in new Central Maine Growth Council project
October 31, 2019Millennial business leaders and entrepreneurs in the Waterville area are highlighted in a just-launched project of the Central Maine Growth Council.
October 31, 2019
Portland startup to test digital therapy for stroke
Updated: October 29, 2019MedRhythms Inc., a Portland-based medical technology startup, has gotten the green light to launch a clinical trial of its walking rehabilitation solution.
Updated: October 29, 2019
Top Gun kicks off in Kennebec, Somerset counties
October 24, 2019Thomas College is launching the startup mentoring program early next year for entrepreneurs in those counties, as well as five Waldo County towns. The application deadline is next month.
October 24, 2019
KinoTek awarded MTI grant for developing sports training software
October 21, 2019The "Greenlight Maine" Collegiate Competition winner is developing software that simplifies data for use by athletes and coaches to enhance performance will decreasing the chance of injury.
October 21, 2019
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