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// THE QUOTE
“I had 200,000 in investment lined up that vaporized in March”
— Dustin Bowers · PLAEX Building Systems Inc.
Clean founder turning-point: funding evaporates in March 2020, no revenue for three years, no paycheck — a complete arc with a clear emotional beat.
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THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
Atlantic Canada's non-dilutive stack — ACOA grants, NBIF equity, IRAP subsidies, university accelerators — can carry a hardware startup when private capital vanishes.
“there was a substantial Grant through AOA and there was an investment through nbif”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Funding the climb: vaporized capital to first brick
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Clips like this, every two weeks.
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