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Equals6.com is a business to student social networking site. Founded in November 2011 in in Halifax, Nova Scotia at a joint event between Digital Nova Scotia. During the Launch event 2500 was given away in student scholarships. Equals6 it is used for professional networking for students as well as application to private scholarships. As of date, Equals6.com reports more than 10 thousand registered users.

Equals6 was created to be an alternative to traditional forms of career services and Human resource activites. There are 2 types of accounts, students and Organizations. Student accounts focus on jobs, scholarships, competitions, and the sharing of ideas on internal message boards titled “Brain Storms”. The Organizational accounts focus on job posting, demographics and crowd sourcing opportunities.

Company background LinkedIn's CEO is founding partner Andy Osburn, previously CEO and CTO at Diaphonics. The company was founded by Andy Osburn and founding team members from SMUBDC and Socialnet.com (Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Lee Hower, Konstantin Guericke, Stephen Beitzel, David Eves, Ian McNish, Yan Pujante, and Chris Saccheri)

Scholarships In the first year of operation Equals6.com has given away 20,000